Present status and future perspectives of the NEXT experiment

The NEXT Collaboration: J.J. G\'omez-Cadenas , V. \'Alvarez , F.I.G.M. Borges , S. C\'arcel , J. Castel , S. Cebri\'an , A. Cervera , C.A.N. Conde

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T. Dafni T.H.V.T. Dias J. D\'iaz M. Egorov R. Esteve P. Evtoukhovitch L.M.P. Fernandes P. Ferrario A.L. Ferreira E.D.C. Freitas V.M. Gehman A. Gil A. Goldschmidt H. G\'omez D. Gonz\'alez-D\'iaz R.M. Guti\'errez J. Hauptman J.A. Hernando Morata D.C. Herrera F.J. Iguaz I.G. Irastorza M.A. Jinete L. Labarga A. Laing I. Liubarsky J.A.M. Lopes D. Lorca M. Losada G. Luz\'on A. Mar\'i J. Mart\'in-Albo A. Mart\'inez T. Miller A. Moiseenko F. Monrabal C.M.B. Monteiro F.J. Mora L.M. Moutinho J. Mu\~noz Vidal H. Natal da Luz G. Navarro M. Nebot-Guinot D. Nygren C.A.B. Oliveira R. Palma J. P\'erez J.L. P\'erez Aparicio J. Renner L. Ripoll A. Rodr\'iguez J. Rodr\'iguez F.P. Santos J.M.F. dos Santos L. Segui L. Serra D. Shuman A. Sim\'on C. Sofka M. Sorel J.F. Toledo A. Tom\'as J. Torrent Z. Tsamalaidze J.F.C.A. Veloso J.A. Villar R.C. Webb J. White N. Yahlali

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NEXT is an experiment dedicated to neutrinoless double beta decay searches in xenon. The detector is a TPC, holding 100 kg of high-pressure xenon enriched in the $^{136}$Xe isotope. It is under construction in the Laboratorio Subterr\'aneo de Canfranc in Spain, and it will begin operations in 2015. The NEXT detector concept provides an energy resolution better than 1% FWHM and a topological signal that can be used to reduce the background. Furthermore, the NEXT technology can be extrapolated to a 1-ton scale experiment.

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