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most citedLEGEND-1000 Preconceptual Design Report

52 citations · 201 across the 16 of their papers we have counts for

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16 papers

physics.ins-det2025

Fast reconstruction-based ROI triggering via anomaly detection in the CYGNO optical TPC

F. D. Amaro, R. Antonietti, E. Baracchini +41

Optical-readout Time Projection Chambers (TPCs) produce megapixel-scale images whose fine-grained topological information is essential for rare-event searches, but whose size chall…

physics.ins-det2025★ 1 cited

Bayesian network 3D event reconstruction in the Cygno optical TPC for dark matter direct detection

Fernando Domingues Amaro, Rita Antonietti, Elisabetta Baracchini +50

The CYGNO experiment is developing a high-resolution gaseous Time Projection Chamber with optical readout for directional dark matter searches. The detector uses a helium-tetrafluo…

physics.ins-det2025

Modeling the light response of an optically readout GEM based TPC for the CYGNO experiment

Fernando Dominques Amaro, Rita Antonietti, Elisabetta Baracchini +56

The use of gaseous Time Projection Chambers enables the detection and the detailed study of rare events due to particles interactions with the atoms of the gas with energy releases…

physics.ins-det2024★ 3 cited

Enhancing the light yield of He:CF based gaseous detector

F. D. Amaro, R. Antonietti, E. Baracchini +51

The CYGNO experiment aims to build a large ( m) directional detector for rare event searches, such as nuclear recoils (NRs) induced by dark matter (DM), such a…

physics.ins-det2023

LIME -- a gas TPC prototype for directional Dark Matter search for the CYGNO experiment

Fernando Domingues Amaro, Elisabetta Baracchini, Luigi Benussi +44

The CYGNO experiment aims at the development of a large gaseous TPC with GEM-based amplification and an optical readout by means of PMTs and scientific CMOS cameras for 3D tracking…

physics.ins-det2022★ 38 cited

The CYGNO Experiment

Fernando Domingues Amaro, Elisabetta Baracchini, Luigi Benussi +47

The search for a novel technology able to detect and reconstruct nuclear and electron recoil events with the energy of a few keV has become more and more important now that large r…

physics.ins-det2021★ 52 cited

LEGEND-1000 Preconceptual Design Report

LEGEND Collaboration, N. Abgrall, I. Abt +261

We propose the construction of LEGEND-1000, the ton-scale Large Enriched Germanium Experiment for Neutrinoless Decay. This international experiment is designed to answer one o…

physics.ins-det2020★ 18 cited

Stability and detection performance of a GEM-based Optical Readout TPC with He/CF gas mixtures

E. Baracchini, L. Benussi, S. Bianco +26

The performance and long term stability of an optically readout Time Projection Chamber with an electron amplification structure based on three Gas Electron Multipliers was studied…

physics.ins-det2020★ 22 cited

CYGNO: a gaseous TPC with optical readout for dark matter directional search

E. Baracchini, L. Benussi, S. Bianco +26

The CYGNO project has the goal to use a gaseous TPC with optical readout to detect dark matter and solar neutrinos with low energy threshold and directionality. The CYGNO demonstra…

physics.ins-det2020★ 21 cited

Identification of low energy nuclear recoils in a gas TPC with optical readout

Elisabetta Baracchini, Luigi Benussi, Stefano Bianco +27

The search for a novel technology able to detect and reconstruct nuclear recoil events in the keV energy range has become more and more important as long as vast regions of high ma…

physics.ins-det2020★ 10 cited

First evidence of luminescence in a He/CF gas mixture induced by non-ionizing electrons

E. Baracchini, L. Benussi, S. Bianco +25

Optical readout of Gas Electron Multipliers (GEM) provides very interesting performances and has been proposed for different applications in particle physics. In particular, thanks…

physics.ins-det2020

A 1 m Gas Time Projection Chamber with Optical Readout for Directional Dark Matter Searches: the CYGNO Experiment

E. Baracchini, R. Bedogni, F. Bellini +25

The aim of the CYGNO project is the construction and operation of a 1~m gas TPC for directional dark matter searches and coherent neutrino scattering measurements, as a prototy…

physics.ins-det2019

Brazilian Report on Safeguards Application of Reactor Neutrinos

E. Kemp, J. A. M. Alfonzo, J. C. Anjos +18

The Neutrinos Angra Experiment is a water-based Cherenkov detector located in the Angra dos Reis nuclear power plant. The experiment has completed a major step by finishing the com…

physics.ins-det2019★ 5 cited

CYGNO: Triple-GEM Optical Readout for Directional Dark Matter Search

I. Abritta Costa, E. Baracchini, R. Bedogni +17

CYGNO is a project realising a cubic meter demonstrator to study the scalability of the performance of the optical approach for the readout of large-volume, GEM-equipped TPC. This…

physics.ins-det2019★ 21 cited

Performance of Optically Readout GEM-based TPC with a 55Fe source

I. Abritta Costa, E. Baracchini, F. Bellini +13

Optical readout of large Time Projection Chambers (TPCs) with multiple Gas Electron Multipliers (GEMs) amplification stages has shown to provide very interesting performances for h…

physics.ins-det2018★ 10 cited

Neutrinos Angra experiment: commissioning and first operational measurements

H. P. Lima, J. A. M. Alfonzo, J. C. Anjos +17

The Neutrinos Angra Experiment has completed a major step by finishing the comissioning of the detector and the data acquisition system at the experimental site located in the Angr…