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The NEXT-100 Detector is Commissioned and Taking Data
The NEXT collaboration is pleased to announce the publication of a detailed article describing the design, construction, and commissioning of the NEXT-100 detector, now fully operational at the Laboratorio Subterrรกneo de Canfranc (LSC) since May 2024. This marks a major milestone in our ongoing program to search for neutrinoless double beta decay (0ฮฝฮฒฮฒ) in 136Xe…
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NEXT at ICHEP 2024
The NEXT collaboration had a strong presence at the ICHEP 2024 conference in Prague, held from July 18 to 24, 2024. Brais Palmeiro from the University of Manchester delivered a talk summarizing the NEXT research program during the Neutrino Mass session. Three poster were also presented: Congratulations!
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NEXT-100 assembly completed
The assembly of the NEXT-100 detector is complete! Presently, the detector is working at low pressure to test and calibrate the instrumentation. NEXT-100 employs 60 photomultipliers in the energy plane, compared to the 12 PMTs used in its predecessor, NEXT-White. The tracking plane is made up of 3584 SiPMs (1792 in NEXT-White) meant to provide…