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Status and prospects of the NEXT experiment for neutrinoless double beta decay searches
NEXT (Neutrino Experiment with a Xenon TPC) is an experimental program whose
goals are to discover neutrinoless double beta decay using Xe in high
pressure xenon TPCs with electroluminescent readout. In this paper, results
from the NEXT-White detector, which is currently taking data at Laboratorio
Subterr\'aneo de Canfranc (LSC) will be reported. The prospects for the
NEXT-100 apparatus, scheduled to start operations in 2020, as well as the plans
to extend the technology to large and ultra-low background detectors needed to
fully explore the inverse hierarchy of neutrino masses, will also be briefly
discussed.Comment: This article is an expanded version of my contribution to the 2019
EW/QCD/Gravitation session of the 54th "Rencontres de Moriond
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