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Second gadolinium loading to Super-Kamiokande
K. Abe, C. Bronner, Y. Hayato +246
The first loading of gadolinium (Gd) into Super-Kamiokande in 2020 was successful, and the neutron capture efficiency on Gd reached 50\%. To further increase the Gd neutron capture…
Measurement of isotopic separation of argon with the prototype of the cryogenic distillation plant Aria for dark matter searches
20k Collaboration
The Aria cryogenic distillation plant, located in Sardinia, Italy, is a key component of the DarkSide-20k experimental program for WIMP dark matter searches at the INFN Laboratori…
Sensitivity projections for a dual-phase argon TPC optimized for light dark matter searches through the ionization channel
P. Agnes, I. Ahmad, S. Albergo +296
Dark matter lighter than 10 GeV/c encompasses a promising range of candidates. A conceptual design for a new detector, DarkSide-LowMass, is presented, based on the DarkSide-50…
Scintillator ageing of the T2K near detectors from 2010 to 2021
The T2K Collaboration, K. Abe, N. Akhlaq +355
The T2K experiment widely uses plastic scintillator as a target for neutrino interactions and an active medium for the measurement of charged particles produced in neutrino interac…
First Gadolinium Loading to Super-Kamiokande
K. Abe, C. Bronner, Y. Hayato +212
In order to improve Super-Kamiokande's neutron detection efficiency and to thereby increase its sensitivity to the diffuse supernova neutrino background flux, 13 tons of $\rm Gd_2(…
A study of events with photoelectric emission in the DarkSide-50 liquid argon Time Projection Chamber
50 Collaboration, P. Agnes, I. F. M. Albuquerque +135
Finding unequivocal evidence of dark matter interactions in a particle detector is a major objective of physics research. Liquid argon time projection chambers offer a path to prob…
Performance of the ReD TPC, a novel double-phase LAr detector with Silicon Photomultiplier Readout
P. Agnes, S. Albergo, I. Albuquerque +64
A double-phase argon Time Projection Chamber (TPC), with an active mass of 185 g, has been designed and constructed for the Recoil Directionality (ReD) experiment. The aim of the R…
Separating Ar from Ar by cryogenic distillation with Aria for dark matter searches
DarkSide Collaboration, P. Agnes, S. Albergo +309
The Aria project consists of a plant, hosting a 350 m cryogenic isotopic distillation column, the tallest ever built, which is currently in the installation phase in a mine shaft a…
Polysiloxane-based scintillators for shashlik calorimeters
F. Acerbi, A. Branca, C. Brizzolari +46
We present the first application of polysiloxane-based scintillators as active medium in a shashlik sampling calorimeter. These results were obtained from a testbeam campaign of a…
The ENUBET narrow band neutrino beam
ENUBET Collaboration, M. Tenti, F. Acerbi +54
The narrow band beam of ENUBET is the first implementation of the "monitored neutrino beam" technique proposed in 2015. ENUBET has been designed to monitor lepton production in the…
Shashlik calorimeters: novel compact prototypes for the ENUBET experiment
M. Pari, G. Ballerini, A. Berra +50
We summarize in this paper the detector R&D performed in the framework of the ERC ENUBET Project. We discuss in particular the latest results on longitudinally segmented shashlik c…
Testbeam performance of a shashlik calorimeter with fine-grained longitudinal segmentation
G. Ballerini, A. Berra, R. Boanta +34
An iron- plastic-scintillator shashlik calorimeter with a 4.3 longitudinal segmentation was tested in November 2016 at the CERN East Area facility with charged particles up t…
DarkSide-20k: A 20 Tonne Two-Phase LAr TPC for Direct Dark Matter Detection at LNGS
C. E. Aalseth, F. Acerbi, P. Agnes +282
Building on the successful experience in operating the DarkSide-50 detector, the DarkSide Collaboration is going to construct DarkSide-20k, a direct WIMP search detector using a tw…
Cryogenic Characterization of FBK RGB-HD SiPMs
C. E. Aalseth, F. Acerbi, P. Agnes +268
We report on the cryogenic characterization of Red Green Blue - High Density (RGB-HD) SiPMs developed at Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK) as part of the DarkSide program of dark matt…
The ERC ENUBET Project: high precision neutrino flux measurements in conventional neutrino beams
Fabio Pupilli
The challenges of precision neutrino physics require measurements of absolute neutrino cross sections at the GeV scale with exquisite (1%) precision. This precision is presently li…
Long term monitoring of the optical background in the Capo Passero deep-sea site with the NEMO tower prototype
S. Adrián-Martínez, S. Aiello, F. Ameli +101
The NEMO Phase-2 tower is the first detector which was operated underwater for more than one year at the "record" depth of 3500 m. It was designed and built within the framework of…
Measurement of the atmospheric muon depth intensity relation with the NEMO Phase-2 tower
S. Aiello, F. Ameli, M. Anghinolfi +90
The results of the analysis of the data collected with the NEMO Phase-2 tower, deployed at 3500 m depth about 80 km off-shore Capo Passero (Italy), are presented. Cherenkov photons…
A new generation photodetector for astroparticle physics: the VSiPMT
G. Barbarino, F. C. T. Barbato, L. Campajola +8
The VSiPMT (Vacuum Silicon PhotoMultiplier Tube) is an innovative design we proposed for a revolutionary photon detector. The main idea is to replace the classical dynode chain of…
Measurements of the T2K neutrino beam properties using the INGRID on-axis near detector
K. Abe, N. Abgrall, Y. Ajima +428
Precise measurement of neutrino beam direction and intensity was achieved based on a new concept with modularized neutrino detectors. INGRID (Interactive Neutrino GRID) is an on-ax…