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 Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (LNGS). CYGNO employs a He:CF gas mixture at atmospheric pressure with a Gas Electron Multiplier (GEM) based amplification structure coupled to an optical readout comprised of sCMOS cameras and photomultiplier tubes (PMTs). This experimental setup allows to achieve 3D tracking and background rejection down to O(1) keV energy, to boost sensitivity to low WIMP masses. The characteristics of the optical readout approach in terms of the light yield will be illustrated along with the particle identification properties. The project timeline foresees, in the next 2–3 years, the realisation and installation of a 0.4 m3 TPC in the underground laboratories at LNGS to act as a demonstrator. Finally, the studies of the expected DM sensitivities of the CYGNO demonstrator will be presented.
The CYGNO experiment, a directional detector for direct Dark Matter searches / Amaro, Fernando Domingues; Baracchini, Elisabetta; Benussi, Luigi; Bianco, Stefano; Capoccia, Cesidio; Caponero, Michele; Cardoso, Danilo Santos; Cavoto, Gianluca; Cortez, André; Costa, Igor Abritta; Dané, Emiliano; Dho, Giorgio; Di Giambattista, Flaminia; Di Marco, Emanuele; D’Imperio, Giulia; Iacoangeli, Francesco; Lima, Herman Pessoa; Lopes, Guilherme Sebastiao Pinheiro; Maccarrone, Giovanni; Mano, Rui Daniel Passos; Gregorio, Robert Renz Marcelo; Marques, David José Gaspar; Mazzitelli, Giovanni; Mclean, Alasdair Gregor; Messina, Andrea; Monteiro, Cristina Maria Bernardes; Nobrega, Rafael Antunes; Pains, Igor Fonseca; Paoletti, Emiloano; Passamonti, Luciano; Pelosi, Sandro; Petrucci, Fabrizio; Piacentini, Stefano; Piccolo, Davide; Pierluigi, Daniele; Pinci, Davide; Prajapati, Atul; Renga, Francesco; da Cruz Roque, Rita Joanna; Rosatelli, Filippo; Russo, Alessandro; dos Santos, Joaquim Marques Ferreira; Saviano, Giovanna; Spooner, Neil John Curwen; Tesauro, Roberto; Tommasini, Sandro; Torelli, Samuele. - In: NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTS & METHODS IN PHYSICS RESEARCH. SECTION A, ACCELERATORS, SPECTROMETERS, DETECTORS AND ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT. - ISSN 0168-9002. - (2023). [10.1016/j.nima.2023.168325]
The CYGNO experiment, a directional detector for direct Dark Matter searches
Cavoto, GianlucaMembro del Collaboration Group
;Messina, AndreaMembro del Collaboration Group
;Piacentini, StefanoMembro del Collaboration Group
;Saviano, GiovannaMembro del Collaboration Group
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2023
Abstract
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 Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (LNGS). CYGNO employs a He:CF gas mixture at atmospheric pressure with a Gas Electron Multiplier (GEM) based amplification structure coupled to an optical readout comprised of sCMOS cameras and photomultiplier tubes (PMTs). This experimental setup allows to achieve 3D tracking and background rejection down to O(1) keV energy, to boost sensitivity to low WIMP masses. The characteristics of the optical readout approach in terms of the light yield will be illustrated along with the particle identification properties. The project timeline foresees, in the next 2–3 years, the realisation and installation of a 0.4 m3 TPC in the underground laboratories at LNGS to act as a demonstrator. Finally, the studies of the expected DM sensitivities of the CYGNO demonstrator will be presented.| File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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