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B. J. P. Jones

The University of Texas at Arlington

I. J. Arnquist

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

E. Church

K. Mistry

The University of Texas at Arlington

V. Herrero

Instituto de Instrumentación para Imagen Molecular

R. Felkai

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

S. R. Soleti

Donostia International Physics Center

J. Renner

Universidade de Santiago de Compostela

K. E. Navarro

The University of Texas at Arlington

Fernando Auria‐Luna

University of the Basque Country

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Instituto de Instrumentación para Imagen Molecular

Universitat Politècnica de València

Universidad de Zaragoza

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Donostia International Physics Center

Universidade de Santiago de Compostela

The University of Texas at Arlington

Instituto de Física Corpuscular

Universitat de València

Weizmann Institute of Science

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Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay

Advances in High Energy Physics (2012)

C. Adams K. Alfonso C. Andreoiu E. Angelico I. J. Arnquist

This paper introduces the neutrinoless double-beta decay (the rarest nuclear weak process) and describes the status of the research for this transition, both from the point of view of theoretical nuclear physics and in terms of the present and future experimental scenarios. Implications of this phenomenon on crucial aspects of particle physics are briefly discussed. The calculations of the nuclear matrix elements in case of mass mechanisms are reviewed, and a range for these quantities is proposed for the most appealing candidates. After introducing general experimental concepts—such as the choice of the best candidates, the different proposed technological approaches, and the sensitivity—we make the point on the experimental situation. Searches running or in preparation are described, providing an organic presentation which picks up similarities and differences. A critical comparison of the adopted technologies and of their physics reach (in terms of sensitivity to the effective Majorana neutrino mass) is performed. As a conclusion, we try to envisage what we expect round the corner and at a longer time scale.

Beta decay

10.1155/2012/857016

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Performance of an Optical TPC Geant4 Simulation with Opticks GPU-Accelerated Photon Propagation

arXiv (Cornell University) (2025)

NEXT Collaboration I. Parmaksiz K. Mistry E. Church C. Adams

We investigate the performance of Opticks, an NVIDIA OptiX API 7.5 GPU-accelerated photon propagation compared with a single-threaded Geant4 simulation. We compare the simulations using an improved model of the NEXT-CRAB-0 gaseous time projection chamber. Performance results suggest that Opticks improves simulation speeds by between $58.47\pm{0.02}$ and $181.39\pm{0.28}$ times relative to a CPU-only Geant4 simulation and these results vary between different types of GPU and CPU. A detailed comparison shows that the number of detected photons, along with their times and wavelengths, are in good agreement between Opticks and Geant4.

10.48550/arxiv.2502.13215

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Reconstructing neutrinoless double beta decay event kinematics in a xenon gas detector with vertex tagging

arXiv (Cornell University) (2025)

NEXT Collaboration M. Martínez-Vara K. Mistry F. Pompa B. J. P. Jones

If neutrinoless double beta decay is discovered, the next natural step would be understanding the lepton number violating physics responsible for it. Several alternatives exist beyond the exchange of light neutrinos. Some of these mechanisms can be distinguished by measuring phase-space observables, namely the opening angle $\cos\theta$ among the two decay electrons, and the electron energy spectra, $T_1$ and $T_2$. In this work, we study the statistical accuracy and precision in measuring these kinematic observables in a future xenon gas detector with the added capability to precisely locate the decay vertex. For realistic detector conditions (a gas pressure of 10 bar and spatial resolution of 4 mm), we find that the average $\overline{\cos\theta}$ and $\overline{T_1}$ values can be reconstructed with a precision of 0.19 and 110 keV, respectively, assuming that only 10 neutrinoless double beta decay events are detected.

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10.48550/arxiv.2502.10198

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