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

285 citations · 590 across the 9 of their papers we have counts for

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9 papers

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★ 22 cited

Cryogenic Characterization of FBK RGB-HD SiPMs

C. E. Aalseth, F. Acerbi, P. Agnes +268

We report on the cryogenic characterization of Red Green Blue - High Density (RGB-HD) SiPMs developed at Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK) as part of the DarkSide program of dark matt…

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-det2016★ 4 cited

The GAP-TPC

B. Rossi, A. Anastasio, A. Boiano +10

Several experiments have been conducted worldwide, with the goal of observing low-energy nuclear recoils induced by WIMPs scattering off target nuclei in ultra-sensitive, low-backg…

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★ 8 cited

Performance of a SensL-30035-16P Silicon Photomultiplier array at liquid argon temperature

S. Catalanotti, A. G. Cocco, G. Covone +5

Next generation multi-ton scale noble liquid experiments have the unique opportunity to discover dark matter particles at the TeV scale, reaching the sensitivity of 10^-48 cm2 in t…

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…