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Excellent energy resolution is one of the primary advantages of electroluminescent high-pressure xenon TPCs. These detectors are promising tools in searching for rare physics events, such as neutrinoless double-beta decay (ββ0ν), which require precise energy measurements. Using the NEXT-White detector, developed by the NEXT (Neutrino Experiment with a Xenon TPC) collaboration, we show for the first time that an energy resolution of 1% FWHM can be achieved at 2.6 MeV, establishing the present technology as the one with the best energy resolution of all xenon detectors for ββ0ν searches.
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ArXiv ePrint: 1905.13110
NEXT co-spokesperson. (J. J. Gómez-Cadenas, D. R. Nygren)
On leave from Soreq Nuclear Research Center, Yavneh, Israel. (R. Weiss-Babai)
Deceased. (J. T. White)
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The NEXT collaboration., Renner, J., Díaz López, G. et al. Energy calibration of the NEXT-White detector with 1% resolution near Qββ of 136Xe. J. High Energ. Phys. 2019, 230 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP10(2019)230
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP10(2019)230