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most citedLEGEND-1000 Preconceptual Design Report

52 citations · 222 across the 14 of their papers we have counts for

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14 papers

physics.ins-det2025

Production, Quality Assurance and Quality Control of the SiPM Tiles for the DarkSide-20k Time Projection Chamber

F. Acerbi, P. Adhikari, P. Agnes +301

The DarkSide-20k dark matter direct detection experiment will employ a 21 m^2 silicon photomultiplier (SiPM) array, instrumenting a dual-phase 50 tonnes liquid argon Time Projectio…

hep-ex2025★ 19 cited

First Results on the Search for Lepton Number Violating Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay with the LEGEND-200 Experiment

H. Acharya, N. Ackermann, M. Agostini +256

The LEGEND collaboration is searching for neutrinoless double beta () decay by operating high-purity germanium detectors enriched in Ge in a low-background liquid argo…

physics.ins-det2025★ 1 cited

Flow and thermal modelling of the argon volume in the DarkSide-20k TPC

20k Collaboration, F. Acerbi, P. Adhikari +300

The DarkSide-20k dark matter experiment, currently under construction at LNGS, features a dual-phase time projection chamber (TPC) with a ~50 t argon target from an underground wel…

physics.ins-det2024

Quality Assurance and Quality Control of the SiPM production for the DarkSide-20k dark matter experiment

F. Acerbi, P. Adhikari, P. Agnes +289

DarkSide-20k is a novel liquid argon dark matter detector currently under construction at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (LNGS) of the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nuclear…

physics.ins-det2024★ 4 cited

Benchmarking the design of the cryogenics system for the underground argon in DarkSide-20k

20k Collaboration, F. Acerbi, P. Adhikari +315

DarkSide-20k (DS-20k) is a dark matter detection experiment under construction at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (LNGS) in Italy. It utilises ~100 t of low radioactivity a…

hep-ex2024★ 21 cited

DarkSide-20k sensitivity to light dark matter particles

20k Collaboration, F. Acerbi, P. Adhikari +310

The dual-phase liquid argon time projection chamber is presently one of the leading technologies to search for dark matter particles with masses below 10 GeV/c. This was demons…

physics.ins-det2024★ 2 cited

A new hybrid gadolinium nanoparticles-loaded polymeric material for neutron detection in rare event searches

20k Collaboration, F. Acerbi, P. Adhikari +311

Experiments aimed at direct searches for WIMP dark matter require highly effective reduction of backgrounds and control of any residual radioactive contamination. In particular, ne…

physics.ins-det2023★ 14 cited

Measurement of isotopic separation of argon with the prototype of the cryogenic distillation plant Aria for dark matter searches

20k Collaboration

The Aria cryogenic distillation plant, located in Sardinia, Italy, is a key component of the DarkSide-20k experimental program for WIMP dark matter searches at the INFN Laboratori…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 8 cited

Study of cosmogenic activation above ground for the DarkSide-20k experiment

20k Collaboration

The activation of materials due to exposure to cosmic rays may become an important background source for experiments investigating rare event phenomena. DarkSide-20k, currently und…

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-det2021★ 8 cited

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…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 31 cited

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…

physics.ins-det2020★ 29 cited

SiPM-matrix readout of two-phase argon detectors using electroluminescence in the visible and near infrared range

The DarkSide collaboration, C. E. Aalseth, S. Abdelhakim +312

Proportional electroluminescence (EL) in noble gases is used in two-phase detectors for dark matter searches to record (in the gas phase) the ionization signal induced by particle…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 33 cited

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…