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In-situ suppression of surface radon emanation using an HDPE barrier at the Stawell Underground Physics Laboratory (SUPL)
R. R. Marcelo Gregorio, K. Mintern-Lane, S. Rushbrook +5
Radon-induced backgrounds remain a limiting factor in low-background experiments conducted in underground laboratories. The enclosed nature of these laboratories can result in elev…
Direct in-chamber radon-220 (thoron) emanation measurements for rare-event physics experiments
R. R. Marcelo Gregorio, F. Dastgiri, A. Basharina-Freshville +7
Measuring radon emanation from detector materials is a key method for controlling radon, a significant background in rare-event physics experiments. Methods for measuring radon ema…
High Negative Ion Gain MMThGEM-Micromegas Detector for Directional Dark Matter Searches
A. G. McLean, S. Higashino, R. R. Marcelo Gregorio +2
Low pressure gaseous Negative Ion Time Projection Chambers (NITPCs) have been used previously by the DRIFT experiment to search for a directional Dark Matter (DM) signature. The ma…
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…
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…
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…
A Comparison of Micromegas with x/y Strip Charge Readouts for Directional Recoil Detection
Majd Ghrear, Alasdair G. McLean, Hima B. Korandla +3
Detecting the topology and direction of low-energy nuclear and electronic recoils is broadly desirable in nuclear and particle physics, with applications in coherent elastic neutri…
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…
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…
Charge Amplification in Sub-atmospheric CF4:He Mixtures for Directional Dark Matter Searches
A. G. McLean, N. J. C. Spooner, T. Crane +4
Low pressure gaseous Time Projection Chambers (TPCs) are a viable technology for directional Dark Matter (DM) searches and have the potential for exploring the parameter space belo…
Molecular sieve vacuum swing adsorption purification and radon reduction system for gaseous dark matter and rare-event detectors
R. R. Marcelo Gregorio, N. J. C. Spooner, F. Dastgiri +5
In the field of directional dark matter experiments, SF6 has emerged as an ideal target gas. A critical challenge with this gas, and with other proposed gases, is the effective rem…
Gas Gains Over 10 and Optimisation using Fe X-rays in Low Pressure SF with a Novel Multi-Mesh ThGEM for Directional Dark Matter Searches
A. G. McLean, N. J. C. Spooner, T. Crane +4
The Negative Ion Drift (NID) gas SF has favourable properties for track reconstruction in directional Dark Matter (DM) searches utilising low pressure gaseous Time Projection C…
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…
The CYGNO experiment, a directional detector for direct Dark Matter searches
F. D. Amaro, E. Baracchini, L. Benussi +44
The CYGNO project aims at the development of a high precision optical readout gaseous Tima Projection Chamber (TPC) for directional dark matter (DM) searches, to be hosted at Labor…
Recoil imaging for directional detection of dark matter, neutrinos, and physics beyond the Standard Model
C. A. J. O'Hare, D. Loomba, K. Altenmüller +164
Recoil imaging entails the detection of spatially resolved ionization tracks generated by particle interactions. This is a highly sought-after capability in many classes of detecto…
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…