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20172026
most citedThe Next White (NEW) detector

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58 papers

hep-ex2026

Demonstrating topological identification capabilities of the NEXT experiment at low pressure

J. Waiton, H. Almazán, B. Palmeiro +109

The NEXT-100 detector is a high-pressure xenon time projection chamber utilising electroluminescence amplification for sub-1% FWHM energy resolution and topological discrimination,…

physics.ins-det2026

Detector Performance and Dark Matter Sensitivity of CYGNO with HFO-1234ze Gas Admixtures

F. D. Amaro, R. Antonietti, E. Baracchini +42

The CYGNO project develops optical time projection chambers for directional dark matter searches, using a He:CF4 (60:40) gas mixture at atmospheric pressure and a triple-GEM amplif…

physics.ins-det2026

Detection of scintillation light in noble gases with wavelength-shifting optical fibers

S. R. Soleti, S. Torelli, G. Martínez-Lema +110

Wavelength-shifting (WLS) techniques enable particle detectors based on noble gases, whose scintillation light is predominantly emitted in the vacuum-ultraviolet. We investigate WL…

physics.ins-det2026

He-CF4-CH4 ternary mixtures as target gas for the CYGNO directional dark matter experiment

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

The CYGNO collaboration is advancing a high-resolution optical Time Projection Chamber (TPC) for directional dark matter searches and solar neutrino spectroscopy at LNGS. The detec…

physics.ins-det2026

Upgrade of the Trigger and Data Acquisition System for Continuous Imaging and Multi-Camera Operation in CYGNO

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

The CYGNO experiment employs an optical readout to image particle interactions in a gaseous Time Projection Chamber (TPC), combining cameras and photomultiplier tubes (PMTs) to ach…

physics.ins-det2026

Electroluminescence Yield Measurements in Xenon Gas with the NEXT-DEMO++ Detector

NEXT Collaboration, J. Renner, J. D. Villamil +111

The NEXT-DEMO++ detector, a high-pressure xenon gas time projection chamber serving as a prototype for the NEXT-100 experiment, was used to measure the electroluminescence (EL) yie…

hep-ex2026

Radon-induced backgrounds in the NEXT-100 experiment

NEXT Collaboration, C. Cortes-Parra, P. Novella +111

The NEXT-100 detector at the LSC aims at the first competitive search for the \bbnonu decay using a high-pressure \Xe{136} electroluminescent time projection chamber. The first low…

physics.ins-det2026

The CYGNO experiment: a gaseous TPC with optical readout for rare events searches

F. D. Amaro, R. Antonietti, E. Baracchini +39

The CYGNO collaboration is developing a novel strategy for directional Dark Matter searches based on a gaseous Time Projection Chamber (TPC). The detector is optimized for the expl…

physics.ins-det2026

Trigger Optimization and Event Classification for Dark Matter Searches in the CYGNO Experiment Using Machine Learning

F. D. Amaro, R. Antonietti, E. Baracchini +40

The CYGNO experiment employs an optical-readout Time Projection Chamber (TPC) to search for rare low-energy interactions using finely resolved scintillation images. While the optic…

physics.ins-det2026

Simulation of the CYGNO Gaseous TPC Optical Readout

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

Gaseous Time Projection Chambers with Optical Readout are sensitive detectors suitable for 3D measurement of low-energy O(1 keV) particles and are proposed for detecting rare event…

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

Characterization of cutting-edge CMOS Active Pixel sensors within the CYGNO Experiment

B. D. Almeida, F. D. Amaro, R. Antonietti +43

Time Projection Chambers equipped with Gas Electron Multipliers and optical readout by scientific CMOS cameras are a promising technology for low-energy particle detection, as demo…

hep-ex2025

First results of the NEXT-100 detector using Kr decays

NEXT Collaboration, G. Martínez-Lema, C. Hervés Carrete +113

The NEXT collaboration is investigating the double beta decay of Xe using high-pressure gas electroluminescent time projection chambers, which provide excellent energy reso…

physics.ins-det2025

Characterization of field cage and cathode for low radioactivity operation with the CYGNO experiment

F. D. Amaro, R. Antonietti, E. Baracchini +48

Dark matter, which is considered to account for approximately the 27% of the Universe's energy-mass content, remains an open issue in modern particle physics along with its composi…

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-det2025

High Voltage Delivery and Distribution for the NEXT-100 Time Projection Chamber

NEXT Collaboration, C. Adams, H. Almazán +105

A critical element in the realization of large liquid and gas time projection chambers (TPCs) is the delivery and distribution of high voltages into and around the detector. Such e…

physics.ins-det2025★ 2 cited

Performance of an Optical TPC Geant4 Simulation with Opticks GPU-Accelerated Photon Propagation

NEXT Collaboration, I. Parmaksiz, K. Mistry +113

We investigate the performance of Opticks, a NVIDIA OptiX API 7.5 GPU-accelerated photon propagation tool compared with a single-threaded Geant4 simulation. We compare the simulati…

physics.ins-det2024

Efficient noble gas purification using hot getters and gas circulation by convection

J. M. R. Teixeira, C. A. O. Henriques, P. A. O. C. Silva +3

Noble gas radiation detectors with optical readout are gaining popularity in fields like astrophysics and particle physics due to their ability to produce both ionization and scint…

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-det2024

Charge Amplification in Low Pressure CF4:SF6:He Mixtures with a Multi-Mesh ThGEM for Directional Dark Matter Searches

F. D. Amaro, E. Baracchini, L. Benussi +46

The CYGNO collaboration is developing next generation directional Dark Matter (DM) detection experiments, using gaseous Time Projection Chambers (TPCs), as a robust method for iden…

physics.ins-det2024

Fluorescence Imaging of Individual Ions and Molecules in Pressurized Noble Gases for Barium Tagging in Xe

NEXT Collaboration, N. Byrnes, E. Dey +112

The imaging of individual Ba ions in high pressure xenon gas is one possible way to attain background-free sensitivity to neutrinoless double beta decay and hence establish…

hep-ex2024

Measurement of Energy Resolution with the NEXT-White Silicon Photomultipliers

T. Contreras, B. Palmeiro, H. Almazán +107

The NEXT-White detector, a high-pressure gaseous xenon time projection chamber, demonstrated the excellence of this technology for future neutrinoless double beta decay searches us…

physics.ins-det2023★ 6 cited

Design, characterization and installation of the NEXT-100 cathode and electroluminescence regions

NEXT Collaboration, K. Mistry, L. Rogers +107

NEXT-100 is currently being constructed at the Laboratorio Subterráneo de Canfranc in the Spanish Pyrenees and will search for neutrinoless double beta decay using a high-pressure…