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20222025
most citedThe CYGNO Experiment

38 citations · 61 across the 16 of their papers we have counts for

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16 papers

astro-ph.IM2025

A Large-Area Optical Time Projection Chamber for Hard X-ray Polarimetry with Directional Imaging of Low-Energy Electron Recoils

Davide Fiorina, Elisabetta Baracchini, Giorgio Dho +8

We report on the development of a large-volume, wide field-of-view time projection chamber (TPC) for X-ray polarimetry, featuring a triple-GEM amplification stage and optical reado…

physics.ins-det2025

CRYSP: a Total-Body PET based on cryogenic cesium iodide crystals

S. R. Soleti, P. Dietz, R. Esteve +11

Total Body PET (TBPET) scanners have the potential to substantially reduce both acquisition time and administered radiation dose, owing to their high sensitivity. However, their wi…

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…

hep-ex2025

Reconstructing neutrinoless double beta decay event kinematics in a xenon gas detector with vertex tagging

NEXT Collaboration, M. Martínez-Vara, K. Mistry +108

If neutrinoless double beta decay is discovered, the next natural step would be understanding the lepton number violating physics responsible for it. Several alternatives exist bey…

physics.ins-det2025

Ion Transport on Phased Radiofrequency Carpets in Xenon Gas

E. Dey, B. J. P. Jones, Y. Mei +7

We present the design and performance of a four-phased radiofrequency (RF) carpet system for ion transport in high-pressure xenon gas. The RF carpet, designed with a 160 m pitch…

physics.ins-det2024

Feasibility of a directional solar neutrino measurement with the CYGNO/INITIUM experiment

Samuele Torelli

Over the past five decades, solar neutrino research has been pivotal in driving significant scientific advancements, enriching our comprehension of both neutrino characteristics an…

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…

hep-ph2024★ 4 cited

CYGS: Detecting solar neutrinos with directional gas time projection chambers

Chiara Lisotti, Ciaran A. J. O'Hare, Elisabetta Baracchini +8

CYGNUS is a proposed global network of large-scale gas time projection chambers (TPCs) with the capability of directionally detecting nuclear and electron recoils at keV e…

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-det2023★ 6 cited

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…

physics.ins-det2022★ 7 cited

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…

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…