Results of the material screening program of the NEXT experiment

2014/11/05 by T. Dafni, T. Dafní, V. Alvarez +179
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex) #Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det) #Neutrino Physics Research #Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex) #Nuclear Physics and Applications #Particle Detector Development and Performance #hep-ex #nucl-ex #physics.ins-det

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1411.1222

Proceedings for a poster contribution at ICHEP 2014, Valencia, Spain

arxiv created 2014/11/05 · openalex publication_date 2014/11/05 · arxiv updated 2014/11/06 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/01

Abstract

The 'Neutrino Experiment with a Xenon TPC (NEXT)', intended to investigate neutrinoless double beta decay, requires extremely low background levels. An extensive material screening and selection process to assess the radioactivity of components is underway combining several techniques, including germanium gamma-ray spectrometry performed at the Canfranc Underground Laboratory; recent results of this material screening program are presented here.

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