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 regions of high-mass dark matter (DM) candidates have been excluded. Moreover, a detector sensitive to incoming particle direction will be crucial in the case of DM discovery to open the possibility of studying its properties. Gaseous time projection chambers (TPC) with optical readout are very promising detectors combining the detailed event information provided by the TPC technique with the high sensitivity and granularity of latest-generation scientific light sensors. The CYGNO experiment (a CYGNus module with Optical readout) aims to exploit the optical readout approach of multiple-GEM structures in large volume TPCs for the study of rare events as interactions of low-mass DM or solar neutrinos. The combined use of high-granularity sCMOS cameras and fast light sensors allows the reconstruction of the 3D direction of the tracks, offering good energy resolution and very high sensitivity in the few keV energy range, together with a very good particle identification useful for distinguishing nuclear recoils from electronic recoils. This experiment is part of the CYGNUS proto-collaboration, which aims at constructing a network of underground observatories for directional DM search. A one cubic meter demonstrator is expected to be built in 2022/23 aiming at a larger scale apparatus (30 m3–100 m3) at a later stage.

The CYGNO Experiment / Amaro, Fernando Domingues; Baracchini, Elisabetta; Benussi, Luigi; Bianco, Stefano; Capoccia, Cesidio; Caponero, Michele; Cardoso, Danilo Santos; Cavoto, Gianluca; Cortez, André; Costa, Igor Abritta; Roque, Rita Joanna da Cruz; Dané, Emiliano; Dho, Giorgio; Di Giambattista, Flaminia Di; Di Marco, Emanuele Di; Grilli di Cortona, Giovanni Grilli di; D’Imperio, Giulia; Iacoangeli, Francesco; Lima Júnior, Herman Pessoa Lima; Pinheiro Lopes, Guilherme Sebastiao Pinheiro; Lopes Júnior, Amaro da Silva Lopes; Maccarrone, Giovanni; Mano, Rui Daniel Passos; Marafini, Michela; Marcelo Gregorio, Robert Renz Marcelo; Marques, David José Gaspar; Mazzitelli, Giovanni; Mclean, Alasdair Gregor; Messina, Andrea; Bernardes Monteiro, Cristina Maria Bernardes; Nobrega, Rafael Antunes; Pains, Igor Fonseca; Paoletti, Emiliano; Passamonti, Luciano; Pelosi, Sandro; Petrucci, Fabrizio; Piacentini, Stefano; Piccolo, Davide; Pierluigi, Daniele; Pinci, Davide; Prajapati, Atul; Renga, Francesco; Rosatelli, Filippo; Russo, Alessandro; dos Santos, Joaquim; Saviano, Giovanna; Spooner, Neil John Curwen; Tesauro, Roberto; Tomassini, Sandro; Torelli, Samuele. - In: INSTRUMENTS. - ISSN 2410-390X. - 6:1(2022), p. 6. [10.3390/instruments6010006]

The CYGNO Experiment

Cavoto, Gianluca
Writing – Review & Editing
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D’Imperio, Giulia;Messina, Andrea
Membro del Collaboration Group
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Piacentini, Stefano
Membro del Collaboration Group
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Saviano, Giovanna
Membro del Collaboration Group
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2022

Abstract

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 regions of high-mass dark matter (DM) candidates have been excluded. Moreover, a detector sensitive to incoming particle direction will be crucial in the case of DM discovery to open the possibility of studying its properties. Gaseous time projection chambers (TPC) with optical readout are very promising detectors combining the detailed event information provided by the TPC technique with the high sensitivity and granularity of latest-generation scientific light sensors. The CYGNO experiment (a CYGNus module with Optical readout) aims to exploit the optical readout approach of multiple-GEM structures in large volume TPCs for the study of rare events as interactions of low-mass DM or solar neutrinos. The combined use of high-granularity sCMOS cameras and fast light sensors allows the reconstruction of the 3D direction of the tracks, offering good energy resolution and very high sensitivity in the few keV energy range, together with a very good particle identification useful for distinguishing nuclear recoils from electronic recoils. This experiment is part of the CYGNUS proto-collaboration, which aims at constructing a network of underground observatories for directional DM search. A one cubic meter demonstrator is expected to be built in 2022/23 aiming at a larger scale apparatus (30 m3–100 m3) at a later stage.
2022
dark matter; directionality; time projection chamber, CMOS camera
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The CYGNO Experiment / Amaro, Fernando Domingues; Baracchini, Elisabetta; Benussi, Luigi; Bianco, Stefano; Capoccia, Cesidio; Caponero, Michele; Cardoso, Danilo Santos; Cavoto, Gianluca; Cortez, André; Costa, Igor Abritta; Roque, Rita Joanna da Cruz; Dané, Emiliano; Dho, Giorgio; Di Giambattista, Flaminia Di; Di Marco, Emanuele Di; Grilli di Cortona, Giovanni Grilli di; D’Imperio, Giulia; Iacoangeli, Francesco; Lima Júnior, Herman Pessoa Lima; Pinheiro Lopes, Guilherme Sebastiao Pinheiro; Lopes Júnior, Amaro da Silva Lopes; Maccarrone, Giovanni; Mano, Rui Daniel Passos; Marafini, Michela; Marcelo Gregorio, Robert Renz Marcelo; Marques, David José Gaspar; Mazzitelli, Giovanni; Mclean, Alasdair Gregor; Messina, Andrea; Bernardes Monteiro, Cristina Maria Bernardes; Nobrega, Rafael Antunes; Pains, Igor Fonseca; Paoletti, Emiliano; Passamonti, Luciano; Pelosi, Sandro; Petrucci, Fabrizio; Piacentini, Stefano; Piccolo, Davide; Pierluigi, Daniele; Pinci, Davide; Prajapati, Atul; Renga, Francesco; Rosatelli, Filippo; Russo, Alessandro; dos Santos, Joaquim; Saviano, Giovanna; Spooner, Neil John Curwen; Tesauro, Roberto; Tomassini, Sandro; Torelli, Samuele. - In: INSTRUMENTS. - ISSN 2410-390X. - 6:1(2022), p. 6. [10.3390/instruments6010006]
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