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most citedFirst Results from the DarkSide-50 Dark Matter Experiment at Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso

285 citations · 853 across the 14 of their papers we have counts for

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14 papers

physics.ins-det2018★ 34 cited

Monte Carlo simulation of the SABRE PoP background

M. Antonello, E. Barberio, T. Baroncelli +45

SABRE (Sodium-iodide with Active Background REjection) is a direct dark matter search experiment based on an array of radio-pure NaI(Tl) crystals surrounded by a liquid scintillato…

physics.ins-det2018★ 115 cited

The SABRE project and the SABRE PoP

M. Antonello, E. Barberio, T. Baroncelli +46

SABRE aims to directly measure the annual modulation of the dark matter interaction rate with NaI(Tl) crystals. A modulation compatible with the standard hypothesis in which our Ga…

physics.ins-det2017★ 15 cited

The Electronics, Trigger and Data Acquisition System for the Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber of the DarkSide-50 Search for Dark Matter

DarkSide Collaboration, P. Agnes, I. F. M. Albuquerque +177

The DarkSide-50 experiment at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso is a search for dark matter using a dual phase time projection chamber with 50 kg of low radioactivity argon a…

physics.ins-det2017★ 7 cited

Quenching Measurements and Modeling of a Boron-Loaded Organic Liquid Scintillator

Shawn Westerdale, Jingke Xu, Emily Shields +13

Organic liquid scintillators are used in a wide variety of applications in experimental nuclear and particle physics. Boron-loaded scintillators are particularly useful for detecti…

physics.ins-det2016★ 11 cited

Effect of Low Electric Fields on Alpha Scintillation Light Yield in Liquid Argon

P. Agnes, I. F. M. Albuquerque, T. Alexander +158

Measurements were made of scintillation light yield of alpha particles from the Rn decay chain within the DarkSide-50 liquid argon time projection chamber. The light yield…

physics.ins-det2016★ 11 cited

CALIS - a CALibration Insertion System for the DarkSide-50 dark matter search experiment

P. Agnes, I. F. M. Albuquerque, T. Alexander +162

This paper describes the design, fabrication, commissioning and use of a CALibration source Insertion System (CALIS) in the DarkSide-50 direct dark matter search experiment. CALIS…

physics.ins-det2016★ 10 cited

The Electronics and Data Acquisition System for the DarkSide-50 Veto Detectors

P. Agnes, L. Agostino, I. F. M. Albuquerque +155

DarkSide-50 is a detector for dark matter candidates in the form of weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs). It utilizes a liquid argon time projection chamber (LAr TPC) for t…

physics.ins-det2015★ 49 cited

The veto system of the DarkSide-50 experiment

The DarkSide Collaboration, P. Agnes, L. Agostino +158

Nuclear recoil events produced by neutron scatters form one of the most important classes of background in WIMP direct detection experiments, as they may produce nuclear recoils th…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 186 cited

Results from the first use of low radioactivity argon in a dark matter search

The DarkSide Collaboration, P. Agnes, L. Agostino +158

Liquid argon is a bright scintillator with potent particle identification properties, making it an attractive target for direct-detection dark matter searches. The DarkSide-50 dark…

physics.ins-det2015★ 4 cited

A Prototype Neutron Veto for Dark Matter Detectors

Shawn Westerdale, Emily Shields, Frank Calaprice

Neutrons are a particularly dangerous background for direct WIMP dark matter searches; their nuclear recoils with the target nucleus are often indistinguishable from nuclear recoil…

physics.ins-det2015★ 59 cited

Scintillation efficiency measurement of Na recoils in NaI(Tl) below the DAMA/LIBRA energy threshold

Jingke Xu, Emily Shields, Frank Calaprice +18

The dark matter interpretation of the DAMA modulation signal depends on the NaI(Tl) scintillation efficiency of nuclear recoils. Previous measurements for Na recoils have large dis…

astro-ph.IM2015★ 2 cited

The Electronics and Data Acquisition System of the DarkSide Dark Matter Search

The DarkSide Collaboration, P. Agnes, T. Alexander +143

It is generally inferred from astronomical measurements that Dark Matter (DM) comprises approximately 27\% of the energy-density of the universe. If DM is a subatomic particle, a p…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 285 cited

First Results from the DarkSide-50 Dark Matter Experiment at Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso

P. Agnes, T. Alexander, A. Alton +143

We report the first results of DarkSide-50, a direct search for dark matter operating in the underground Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (LNGS) and searching for the rare nucle…

astro-ph.IM2012★ 65 cited

Light Yield in DarkSide-10: a Prototype Two-phase Liquid Argon TPC for Dark Matter Searches

T. Alexander, D. Alton, K. Arisaka +119

As part of the DarkSide program of direct dark matter searches using liquid argon TPCs, a prototype detector with an active volume containing 10 kg of liquid argon, DarkSide-10, wa…