NEXT is an experiment dedicated to neutrinoless double beta decay searches in xenon. The detector is a TPC, holding 100 kg of high-pressure xenon enriched in the 136Xe isotope. It is under construction in the Laboratorio Subterráneo de Canfranc in Spain, and it will begin operations in 2015. The NEXT detector concept provides an energy resolutionbetter than 1% FWHM and a topological signal that can be used to reduce the background. Furthermore, the NEXT technology can be extrapolated to a 1 ton-scale experiment. ; Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad of Spain under Grants CONSOLIDER-Ingenio 2010 CSD2008-0037 (CUP), FPA2009-13697-C04-04, and FIS2012-37947-C04; Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences of the US Department of Energy under Contract no. DE-AC02-05CH11231 ; Portuguese FCT and FEDER through the program COMPETE, Projects PTDC/FIS/103860/2008 and PTDC/FIS/112272/2009 ; US DOE NNSA Stewardship Science Graduate Fellowship under Contract no. DE-FC52-08NA28752 ; Gómez Cadenas. J.J.; Álvarez, V.; Borges, F.; Cárcel, S.; Castel, J.; Cebrián, S.; Cerverá, A. (2014). Present status and future perspectives of the NEXT experiment. Advances in High Energy Physics. 2014:1-22. doi:10.1155/2014/907067. ; Senia ; 1 ; 22 ; 2014