PandaX-III: Searching for neutrinoless double beta decay with high pressure 136Xe gas time projection chambers

Searching for the neutrinoless double beta decay (NLDBD) is now regarded as the topmost promising technique to explore the nature of neutrinos after the discovery of neutrino masses in oscillation experiments. PandaX-III (particle and astrophysical xenon experiment III) will search for the NLDBD of 136Xe at the China Jin Ping Underground Laboratory (CJPL). In the first phase of the experiment, a high pressure gas Time Projection Chamber (TPC) will contain 200 kg, 90% 136Xe enriched gas operated at 10 bar. Fine pitch micro-pattern gas detector (Microbulk Micromegas) will be used at both ends of the TPC for the charge readout with a cathode in the middle. Charge signals can be used to reconstruct the electron tracks of the NLDBD events and provide good energy and spatial resolution. The detector will be immersed in a large water tank to ensure ~5 m of water shielding in all directions. The second phase, a ton-scale experiment, will consist of five TPCs in the same water tank, with improved energy resolution and better control over backgrounds.

Stephan Aune | Jian Tang | Hao Qiao | Tao Zhang | Franck Sabatié | Denis Calvet | Andrea Ferrero | Yong Yang | Hiroki Kusano | Alain Delbart | Wick Haxton | Wei Wang | XingLong Li | Igor G. Irastorza | Theopisti Dafni | Ying Yuan | Tao Zhang | Jianbei Liu | Yong Yang | Siguang Wang | Shubin Liu | Xiaolian Wang | X. Ji | W. Haxton | Y. Mei | Xiangming Sun | A. Delbart | T. Papaevangelou | K. Giboni | A. Ferrero | C. Kobdaj | S. Cebrián | I. Irastorza | D. Calvet | N. Raper | Jian Tang | C. Feng | Y. Mao | Jianing Dong | Haojun Liang | Mingrui Zhao | S. Aune | Jianglai Liu | Meng Wang | Jing Zhou | K. Ni | M. Diakaki | E. Berthoumieux | J. Castel | T. Dafni | E. Ferrer-Ribas | F. Giuliani | S. Jian | H. Qiao | G. Luzón | F. J. Iguaz | Xun Chen | ChangBo Fu | XiangDong Ji | JiangLai Liu | YaJun Mao | XiangXiang Ren | AnDi Tan | Meng Wang | Li Zhao | Amir N. Khan | Xinglong Li | Ying Yuan | K. Han | Hao Liang | A. Tan | Xun Chen | C. Fu | X. Ren | Hua Zhang | Li Zhao | D. Neyret | Danyang Zhu | Chinorat Kobdaj | H. Kusano | Ke Han | Karl Giboni | Franco Giuliani | Jing Zhou | H. Mirallas | Thomas Papaevangelou | Xiaomei Li | Yuan Mei | J. Galan | Javier Galan | LingHui Gu | Heng Lin | KaiXiang Ni | ShaoBo Wang | Dan Zhang | XiangMing Sun | ShouYang Hu | SiYu Jian | XiaoMei Li | HuanQiao Zhang | MingRui Zhao | SiGuang Wang | Neill Raper | JiaNing Dong | ChangQing Feng | Cheng Li | JianBei Liu | ShuBin Liu | XiaoLian Wang | DanYang Zhu | Juan F. Castel | Susana Cebrián | Javier G. Garza | Francisco J. Iguaz | Gloria Luzón | Hector Mirallas | Eric Berthoumieux | Yann Bedfer | Nicole d’Hose | Maria Diakaki | Esther Ferrer-Ribas | Fabienne Kunne | Damien Neyret | Maxence Vanderbroucke | Yu-Peng Yan | F. Sabatié | Y. Bedfer | N. D'hose | F. Kunne | Dan Zhang | Heng Lin | M. Vanderbroucke | Shaobo Wang | Yuxing Yan | Shouyang Hu | Wei Wang | Ling-yun Gu | Cheng Li | J. G. Garza | N. d'Hose | J. Galán | Huanqiao Zhang

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