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most citedThe CYGNO Experiment

38 citations · 143 across the 19 of their papers we have counts for

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19 papers

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★ 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★ 2 cited

Production and validation of industrially produced large-sized GEM foils for the Phase-2 upgrade of the CMS muon spectrometer

Inseok Yoon

The upgrade of the CMS detector for the high luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) will include gas electron multiplier (GEM) detectors in the end-cap muon spectrometer. Due to the limited suppl…

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

Design of a Resistive Plate Chamber using additive manufacturing

L. Benussi, S. Bianco, R. Campagnola +17

Driven by the recent improvement in additive manufacturing technologies, we designed a detector that can be fully printed with a standard and commercial 3D printer. The main goals…

physics.ins-det2022★ 26 cited

Quality Control of Mass-Produced GEM Detectors for the CMS GE1/1 Muon Upgrade

M. Abbas, M. Abbrescia, H. Abdalla +179

The series of upgrades to the Large Hadron Collider, culminating in the High Luminosity Large Hadron Collider, will enable a significant expansion of the physics program of the CMS…

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

Studies on tetrafluoropropene-CO2 based gas mixtures for the Resistive Plate Chambers of the ALICE Muon IDentifier

Alessandro Ferretti

Due to their simplicity and comparatively low cost Resistive Plate Chambers are gaseous detectors widely used in high-energy and cosmic rays physics when large detection areas are…

physics.ins-det2021★ 9 cited

Upgrade of the CMS Resistive Plate Chambers for the High Luminosity LHC

A. Samalan, M. Tytgat, G. A. Alves +108

During the upcoming High Luminosity phase of the Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC), the integrated luminosity of the accelerator will increase to 3000 fb. The expected experime…

physics.ins-det2021★ 1 cited

Modeling the triple-GEM detector response to background particles for the CMS Experiment

M. Abbas, M. Abbrescia, H. Abdalla +186

An estimate of environmental background hit rate on triple-GEM chambers is performed using Monte Carlo (MC) simulation and compared to data taken by test chambers installed in the…

physics.ins-det2021

Performance of a Triple-GEM Demonstrator in Collisions at the CMS Detector

M. Abbas, M. Abbrescia, H. Abdalla +178

After the Phase-2 high-luminosity upgrade to the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the collision rate and therefore the background rate will significantly increase, particularly in the…

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★ 4 cited

Experiences from the RPC data taking during the CMS RUN-2

Mehar Ali Shah

The CMS experiment recorded 177.75 /fb of proton-proton collision data during the RUN-1 and RUN-2 data taking period. Successful data taking at increasing instantaneous luminositie…

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-det2015

Fiber Bragg Grating sensors for deformation monitoring of GEM foils in HEP detectors

L. Benussi, S. Bianco, M. Caponero +7

Fiber Bragg Grating (FBG) sensors have been so far mainly used in high energy physics (HEP) as high precision positioning and re-positioning sensors and as low cost, easy to mount,…

physics.ins-det2008★ 28 cited

The CMS RPC gas gain monitoring system: an overview and preliminary results

L. Benussi, S. Bianco, S. Colafranceschi +40

The status of the CMS RPC Gas Gain Monitoring (GGM) system developed at the Frascati Laboratory of INFN (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare) is reported on. The GGM system is a…