14 Apr 2026
Seminars and colloquia
Time
Venue
Dennis Sciama Lecture Theatre
Denys Wilkinson Building, Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Keble Road, Oxford OX1 3RH
Denys Wilkinson Building, Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Keble Road, Oxford OX1 3RH
Speaker(s)
J.J. Gómez-Cadenas, Ikerbasque professor, Donostia International Physics Center, spokesman of the NEXT collaboration
Seminar series
Experimental particle physics seminar
Abstract
Every serious trip takes twenty years. The NEXT experiment sailed from the Harbours of Dreams about 15 years ago. In our journey we passed the Island of Prototypes, the Land of The First Radiopure Detector, and are currently anchoring in the NEXT-100 beaches. Our journey, however, is far from completed. In this talk I will share what we have accomplished so far and what we hope to achieve in our way (back) to ITACA (Ion Tracking with CMOS ASICs), a new experimental concept that make us allow exploring a putative neutrinoless double beta decay process in Xenon up to lifetimes of 10^28 years and beyond.