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most citedLow-Mass Dark Matter Search with the DarkSide-50 Experiment

443 citations · 2.3k across the 29 of their papers we have counts for

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physics.atom-ph2024★ 10 cited

Investigating the Proton Structure: The FAMU experiment

A. Vacchi, A. Adamczak, D. Bakalov +46

The article gives the motivations for the measurement of the hyperfine splitting (hfs) in the ground state of muonic hydrogen to explore the properties of the proton at low momentu…

physics.atom-ph2021★ 14 cited

Measurement of the muon transfer rate from muonic hydrogen to oxygen in the range 70-336 K

C. Pizzolotto, A. Sbrizzi, A. Adamczak +39

The first measurement of the temperature dependence of the muon transfer rate from muonic hydrogen to oxygen was performed by the FAMU collaboration in 2016. The results provide ev…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 253 cited

Constraints on Sub-GeV Dark Matter-Electron Scattering from the DarkSide-50 Experiment

The DarkSide Collaboration, P. Agnes, I. F. M. Albuquerque +193

We present new constraints on sub-GeV dark matter particles scattering off electrons in argon based on an analysis of ionization signal data from the DarkSide-50 detector.

astro-ph.HE2018★ 443 cited

Low-Mass Dark Matter Search with the DarkSide-50 Experiment

The DarkSide Collaboration, P. Agnes, I. F. M. Albuquerque +192

We present the results of a search for dark matter WIMPs in the mass range below 20 GeV/c^2 using a target of low-radioactivity argon. The data were obtained using the DarkSide-50…

physics.ins-det2016★ 11 cited

Effect of Low Electric Fields on Alpha Scintillation Light Yield in Liquid Argon

P. Agnes, I. F. M. Albuquerque, T. Alexander +158

Measurements were made of scintillation light yield of alpha particles from the Rn decay chain within the DarkSide-50 liquid argon time projection chamber. The light yield…

physics.ins-det2016★ 11 cited

CALIS - a CALibration Insertion System for the DarkSide-50 dark matter search experiment

P. Agnes, I. F. M. Albuquerque, T. Alexander +162

This paper describes the design, fabrication, commissioning and use of a CALibration source Insertion System (CALIS) in the DarkSide-50 direct dark matter search experiment. CALIS…

physics.ins-det2016★ 10 cited

The Electronics and Data Acquisition System for the DarkSide-50 Veto Detectors

P. Agnes, L. Agostino, I. F. M. Albuquerque +155

DarkSide-50 is a detector for dark matter candidates in the form of weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs). It utilizes a liquid argon time projection chamber (LAr TPC) for t…

physics.ins-det2015★ 49 cited

The veto system of the DarkSide-50 experiment

The DarkSide Collaboration, P. Agnes, L. Agostino +158

Nuclear recoil events produced by neutron scatters form one of the most important classes of background in WIMP direct detection experiments, as they may produce nuclear recoils th…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 186 cited

Results from the first use of low radioactivity argon in a dark matter search

The DarkSide Collaboration, P. Agnes, L. Agostino +158

Liquid argon is a bright scintillator with potent particle identification properties, making it an attractive target for direct-detection dark matter searches. The DarkSide-50 dark…

astro-ph.SR2011★ 26 cited

Mean Interplanetary Magnetic Field Measurement Using the ARGO-YBJ Experiment

G. Aielli, C. Bacci, B. Bartoli +109

The sun blocks cosmic ray particles from outside the solar system, forming a detectable shadow in the sky map of cosmic rays detected by the ARGO-YBJ experiment in Tibet. Because t…

astro-ph.HE2010

Highlights from the ARGO-YBJ experiment

G. Di Sciascio

The ARGO-YBJ experiment is a multipurpose detector exploiting the full coverage approach at very high altitude. The apparatus, in stable data taking since November 2007 with an ene…

hep-ex2009★ 69 cited

Proton-air cross section measurement with the ARGO-YBJ cosmic ray experiment

YBJ Collaboration

The proton-air cross section in the energy range 1-100 TeV has been measured by the ARGO-YBJ cosmic ray experiment. The analysis is based on the flux attenuation for different atmo…

astro-ph.HE2009★ 19 cited

ARGO-YBJ constraints on very high energy emission from GRBs

YBJ Collaboration, G. Aielli

The ARGO-YBJ (Astrophysical Radiation Ground-based Observatory at YangBaJing) experiment is designed for very high energy -astronomy and cosmic ray researches. Due to the full c…

astro-ph2008★ 38 cited

Scaler Mode Technique for the ARGO-YBJ Detector

G. Aielli et al.

The ARGO-YBJ experiment has been designed to study the Extensive Air Showers with an energy threshold lower than that of the existing arrays by exploiting the high altitude locatio…

hep-ex2003★ 112 cited

Atmospheric neutrino oscillations from upward throughgoing muon multiple scattering in MACRO

The MACRO Collaboration

The energy of atmospheric neutrinos detected by MACRO was estimated using multiple coulomb scattering of upward throughgoing muons. This analysis allows a test of atmospheric neutr…

hep-ex2002★ 36 cited

Measurement of the residual energy of muons in the Gran Sasso underground Laboratories

The MACRO Collaboration, M. Ambrosio

The MACRO detector was located in the Hall B of the Gran Sasso underground Laboratories under an average rock overburden of 3700 hg/cm^2. A transition radiation detector composed o…

hep-ex2002

Status Report of the MACRO Experiment for the year 2001

G. Giacomelli, A. Margiotta

In this 2001 status report of the MACRO experiment, results are presented on atmospheric neutrinos and neutrino oscillations, high energy neutrino astronomy, searches for WIMPs, se…

hep-ph2002★ 9 cited

Search for cosmic ray sources using muons detected by the MACRO experiment

M. Ambrosio

The MACRO underground detector at Gran Sasso Laboratory recorded 60 million secondary cosmic ray muons from February 1989 until December 2000. Different techniques were used to ana…

physics.ins-det2002★ 20 cited

Muon Energy Estimate Through Multiple Scattering with the Macro Detector

The MACRO Collaboration

Muon energy measurement represents an important issue for any experiment addressing neutrino induced upgoing muon studies. Since the neutrino oscillation probability depends on the…

hep-ex2001★ 192 cited

Matter Effects in Upward-Going Muons and Sterile Neutrino Oscillations

The MACRO Collaboration

The angular distribution of upward-going muons produced by atmospheric neutrinos in the rock below the MACRO detector show anomalies in good agreement with two flavor neutrino-mu =…

hep-ex2000★ 31 cited

A Search for Lightly Ionizing Particles with the MACRO Detector

MACRO Collaboration

A search for lightly ionizing particles has been performed with the MACRO detector. This search was sensitive to particles with charges between $\fractional{5}$ and close to the…

astro-ph2000★ 79 cited

Neutrino astronomy with the MACRO detector

M. Ambrosio

High energy gamma ray astronomy is now a well established field and several sources have been discovered in the region from a few GeV up to several TeV. If sources involving hadron…

hep-ex2000★ 82 cited

Low energy atmospheric muon neutrinos in MACRO

The MACRO Collaboration

We present the measurement of two event samples induced by atmospheric of average energy . In the first sample, the neutrino interacts inside the MACRO…

hep-ex1999

Study of the Photonuclear interaction of muons in rock with the MACRO experiment

E. Scapparone

We present first results about the measurement of the charged hadrons production by atmopsheric muons in the rock above MACRO. A comparison between the measurerate with the Monte C…