Description and commissioning of NEXT-MM prototype: first results from operation in a Xenon-Trimethylamine gas mixture

Álvarez, V; Aznar, F; I G M Borges, F; Calvet, D; Cárcel, S; Castel, J; Cebrián, S; Cervera, A; A N Conde, C; Dafni, T; H V T Dias, T; Díaz, J; Druillole, F; Egorov, M; Esteve, R; Evtoukhovitch, P; M P Fernandes, L; Ferrario, P; L Ferreira, A; Ferrer-Ribas, E; D C Freitas, E; M Gehman, V; Gil, A; Giomataris, I; Goldschmidt, A; Gómez, H; J Gómez-Cadenas, J; González-Díaz, D; M Gutiérrez, R; Hauptman, J; A Hernando Morata, J; C Herrera, D; J Iguaz, F; G Irastorza, I; A Jinete, M; Labarga, L; Laing, A; Le Coguie, A; Liubarsky, I; A M Lopes, J; Lorca, D; Losada, M; Luzón, G; Marí, A; Martín-Albo, J; Martínez, A; Martínez-Lema, G; Miller, T; Moiseenko, A; P Mols, J; Monrabal, F; M B Monteiro, C; J Mora, F; M Moutinho, L; Muñoz Vidal, J; Natal da Luz, H; Navarro, G; Nebot-Guinot, M; Nygren, D; A B Oliveira, C; Palma, R; Pérez, J; L Pérez Aparicio, J; Renner, J; Ripoll, L; Rodríguez, A; Rodríguez, J; P Santos, F; M F dos Santos, J; Segui, L; Serra, L; Shuman, D; Simón, A; Sofka, C; Sorel, M; F Toledo, J; Tomás, A; Torrent, J; Tsamalaidze, Z; F C A Veloso, J; A Villar, J; C Webb, R; T White, J; Yahlali, N

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Description and commissioning of NEXT-MM prototype: first results from operation in a Xenon-Trimethylamine gas mixture

Published in Journal of Instrumentation • Mar 18, 2014

Authors:

V Álvarez

F Aznar

F I G M Borges

Abstract

A technical description of NEXT-MM and its commissioning and first performance is reported. Having an active volume of ~ 35 cm drift × 28 cm diameter, it constitutes the largest Micromegas-read TPC operated in Xenon ever constructed, made by a sectorial arrangement of the 4 largest single wafers man...

Subject

Xenon

Volume (thermodynamics)

Trimethylamine

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