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SiPM cross-talk in liquid argon detectors
M. G. Boulay, V. Camillo, N. Canci +23
SiPM-based readouts are becoming the standard for light detection in particle detectors given their superior resolution and ease of use with respect to vacuum tube photo-multiplier…
Radiation damage on SiPMs for Space Applications
Anna Rita Altamura, Fabio Acerbi, Benedetto Di Ruzza +3
Silicon Photo-multipliers (SiPMs) are very sensitive photo-detectors that experienced a big development in the last years in several applications, like LIDAR, astrophysics, medical…
Direct comparison of PEN and TPB wavelength shifters in a liquid argon detector
M. G. Boulay, V. Camillo, N. Canci +26
A large number of particle detectors employ liquid argon as their target material owing to its high scintillation yield and its ability to drift ionization charge over large distan…
Separating Ar from Ar by cryogenic distillation with Aria for dark matter searches
DarkSide Collaboration, P. Agnes, S. Albergo +309
The Aria project consists of a plant, hosting a 350 m cryogenic isotopic distillation column, the tallest ever built, which is currently in the installation phase in a mine shaft a…
Design considerations for a new generation of SiPMs with unprecedented timing resolution
S. Enoch, A. Gola, P. Lecoq +1
The potential of photon detectors to achieve precise timing information is of increasing importance in many domains, PET and CT scanners in medical imaging and particle physics det…
Sensitivity of future liquid argon dark matter search experiments to core-collapse supernova neutrinos
P. Agnes, S. Albergo, I. F. M. Albuquerque +273
Future liquid-argon DarkSide-20k and ARGO detectors, designed for direct dark matter search, will be sensitive also to core-collapse supernova neutrinos, via coherent elastic neutr…
First Demonstration of the Use of LG-SiPMs for Optical Readout of a TPC
A. Gola, K. Majumdar, G. Casse +3
This paper describes a new method for optical readout of Time Projection Chambers (TPCs), based on the Linearly Graded Silicon Photomultiplier (LG-SiPM). This is a single photon-se…
Decay tunnel instrumentation for the ENUBET neutrino beam
F. Acerbi, A. Berra, M. Bonesini +56
The uncertainty in the initial neutrino flux is the main limitation for a precise determination of the absolute neutrino cross section. The ERC funded ENUBET project (2016-2021) is…
The hadronic beamline of the ENUBET neutrino beam
ENUBET collaboration, C. Delogu, F. Acerbi +57
The ENUBET ERC project (2016-2021) is studying a facility based on a narrow band beam capable of constraining the neutrino fluxes normalization through the monitoring of the associ…
Cryogenic SiPM arrays for the DUNE photon detection system
A. Falcone, A. Andreani, S. Bertolucci +29
In this paper we report on the characterization of SiPM tiles developed for the R & D on the DUNE Photon Detection System. The tiles were produced by Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK)…
Design and construction of a new detector to measure ultra-low radioactive-isotope contamination of argon
The DarkSide Collaboration, C. E. Aalseth, S. Abdelhakim +328
Large liquid argon detectors offer one of the best avenues for the detection of galactic weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) via their scattering on atomic nuclei. The liq…
Polysiloxane-based scintillators for shashlik calorimeters
F. Acerbi, A. Branca, C. Brizzolari +46
We present the first application of polysiloxane-based scintillators as active medium in a shashlik sampling calorimeter. These results were obtained from a testbeam campaign of a…
The ENUBET narrow band neutrino beam
ENUBET Collaboration, M. Tenti, F. Acerbi +54
The narrow band beam of ENUBET is the first implementation of the "monitored neutrino beam" technique proposed in 2015. ENUBET has been designed to monitor lepton production in the…
The ENUBET Beamline
ENUBET Collaboration, G. Brunetti, F. Acerbi +56
The ENUBET ERC project (2016-2021) is studying a narrow band neutrino beam where lepton production can be monitored at single particle level in an instrumented decay tunnel. This w…
Irradiation and performance of RGB-HD Silicon Photomultipliers for calorimetric applications
F. Acerbi, G. Ballerini, A. Berra +41
Silicon Photomultipliers with cell-pitch ranging from 12 m to 20 m were tested against neutron irradiation at moderate fluences to study their performance for calorimetric ap…
A high precision neutrino beam for a new generation of short baseline experiments
F. Acerbi, G. Ballerini, S. Bolognesi +53
The current generation of short baseline neutrino experiments is approaching intrinsic source limitations in the knowledge of flux, initial neutrino energy and flavor. A dedicated…
Shashlik calorimeters: novel compact prototypes for the ENUBET experiment
M. Pari, G. Ballerini, A. Berra +50
We summarize in this paper the detector R&D performed in the framework of the ERC ENUBET Project. We discuss in particular the latest results on longitudinally segmented shashlik c…
A narrow band neutrino beam with high precision flux measurements
A. Coffani, G. Ballerini, A. Berra +49
The ENUBET facility is a proposed narrow band neutrino beam where lepton production is monitored at single particle level in the instrumented decay tunnel. This facility addresses…
DarkSide-20k: A 20 Tonne Two-Phase LAr TPC for Direct Dark Matter Detection at LNGS
C. E. Aalseth, F. Acerbi, P. Agnes +282
Building on the successful experience in operating the DarkSide-50 detector, the DarkSide Collaboration is going to construct DarkSide-20k, a direct WIMP search detector using a tw…
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…
The ERC ENUBET Project: high precision neutrino flux measurements in conventional neutrino beams
Fabio Pupilli
The challenges of precision neutrino physics require measurements of absolute neutrino cross sections at the GeV scale with exquisite (1%) precision. This precision is presently li…
Cryogenic Characterization of FBK HD Near-UV Sensitive SiPMs
Fabio Acerbi, Stefano Davini, Alessandro Ferri +14
We report on the characterization of near-ultraviolet high density silicon photomultiplier (\SiPM) developed at Fondazione Bruno Kessler (\FBK) at cryogenic temperature. A dedicate…