Sensitivity and discovery potential of the proposed nEXO experiment to neutrinoless double beta decay
Creators: name: NEXO Collaboration
name: Albert, J. B.
name: Anton, G.
name: Arnquist, I. J.
name: Badhrees, I.
name: Barbeau, P. S.
name: Beck, D.
name: Belov, V.
name: Bourque, F.
name: Brodsky, J. P.
name: Brown, E.
name: Brunner, T.
name: Burenkov, A.
name: Cao, G. F.
name: Cao, L.
name: Cen, W. R.
name: Chambers, C.
name: Charlebois, S. A.
name: Chiu, M.
name: Cleveland, B.
name: Coon, M.
name: Côté, M.
name: Craycraft, A.
name: Cree, W.
name: Dalmasson, J.
name: Daniels, T.
name: Daugherty, S. J.
name: Daughhetee, J.
name: DeVoe, R.
name: Delaquis, S.
name: Der Mesrobian-Kabakian, A.
name: Didberidze, T.
name: Dilling, J.
name: Ding, Y. Y.
name: Dolinski, M. J.
name: Dragone, A.
name: Fabris, L.
name: Fairbank, W.
name: Farine, J.
name: Feyzbakhsh, S.
name: Fontaine, R.
name: Fudenberg, D.
name: Giacomini, G.
name: Gornea, R.
name: Graham, K.
name: Gratta, G.
name: Hansen, E. V.
name: Harris, D.
name: Hasan, M.
name: Heffner, M.
name: Hoppe, E. W.
name: Hößl, J.
name: House, A.
name: Hufschmidt, P.
name: Hughes, M.
name: Ito, Y.
name: Iverson, A.
name: Jamil, A.
name: Jewell, M. J.
name: Jiang, X. S.
name: Johnson, T. N.
name: Johnston, S.
name: Karelin, A.
name: Kaufman, L. J.
name: Killick, R.
name: Koffas, T.
name: Kravitz, S.
name: Krücken, R.
name: Kuchenkov, A.
name: Kumar, K. S.
name: Lan, Y.
name: Leonard, D. S.
name: Li, G.
name: Li, S.
name: Li, Z.
name: Licciardi, C.
name: Lin, Y. H.
name: MacLellan, R.
name: Michel, T.
name: Mong, B.
name: Moore, D. C.
name: Murray, K.
name: Newby, R. J.
name: Ning, Z.
name: Njoya, O.
name: Nolet, F.
name: Odgers, K.
name: Odian, A.
name: Oriunno, M.
name: Orrell, J. L.
name: Ortega, G. S.
name: Ostrovskiy, I.
name: Overman, C. T.
name: Parent, S.
name: Piepke, A.
name: Pocar, A.
name: Pratte, J. -F.
name: Qiu, D.
name: Radeka, V.
name: Raguzin, E.
name: Rao, T.
name: Rescia, S.
name: Retière, F.
name: Robinson, A.
name: Rossignol, T.
name: Rowson, P. C.
name: Roy, N.
name: Saldanha, R.
name: Sangiorgio, S.
name: Schmidt, S.
name: Schneider, J.
name: Schubert, A.
name: Sinclair, D.
name: VIII, K. Skarpaas
name: Soma, A. K.
name: St-Hilaire, G.
name: Stekhanov, V.
name: Stiegler, T.
name: Sun, X. L.
name: Tarka, M.
name: Todd, J.
name: Tolba, T.
name: Tsang, R.
name: Tsang, T.
name: Vachon, F.
name: Veeraraghavan, V.
name: Visser, G.
name: Vogel, P.
name: Vuilleumier, J. -L.
name: Wagenpfeil, M.
name: Wang, Q.
name: Weber, M.
name: Wei, W.
name: Wen, L. J.
name: Wichoski, U.
name: Wrede, G.
name: Wu, S. X.
name: Wu, W. H.
name: Yang, L.
name: Yen, Y. -R.
name: Zeldovich, O.
name: Zettlemoyer, J.
name: Zhang, X.
name: Zhao, J.
name: Zhou, Y.
name: Ziegler, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The next-generation Enriched Xenon Observatory (nEXO) is a proposed experiment to search for neutrinoless double beta ($0νββ$) decay in $^{136}$Xe with a target half-life sensitivity of approximately $10^{28}$ years using $5\times10^3$ kg of isotopically enriched liquid-xenon in a time projection chamber. This improvement of two orders of magnitude in sensitivity over current limits is obtained by a significant increase of the $^{136}$Xe mass, the monolithic and homogeneous configuration of the active medium, and the multi-parameter measurements of the interactions enabled by the time projection chamber. The detector concept and anticipated performance are presented based upon demonstrated realizable background rates.
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