Particles (Jul 2021)

Directional Dark Matter Searches with CYGNO

  • Fernando Domingues Amaro,
  • Elisabetta Baracchini,
  • Luigi Benussi,
  • Stefano Bianco,
  • Cesidio Capoccia,
  • Michele Caponero,
  • Gianluca Cavoto,
  • André Cortez,
  • Igor Abritta Costa,
  • Emiliano Dané,
  • Giorgio Dho,
  • Emanuele Di Marco,
  • Giulia D’Imperio,
  • Flaminia Di Giambattista,
  • Robert R. M. Gregorio,
  • Francesco Iacoangeli,
  • Herman Pessoa Lima Júnior,
  • Amaro da Silva Lopes Júnior,
  • Giovanni Maccarrone,
  • Rui Daniel Passos Mano,
  • Michela Marafini,
  • Giovanni Mazzitelli,
  • Alasdair G. McLean,
  • Andrea Messina,
  • Cristina Maria Bernardes Monteiro,
  • Rafael Antunes Nobrega,
  • Igor Fonseca Pains,
  • Emiliano Paoletti,
  • Luciano Passamonti,
  • Sandro Pelosi,
  • Fabrizio Petrucci,
  • Stefano Piacentini,
  • Davide Piccolo,
  • Daniele Pierluigi,
  • Davide Pinci,
  • Atul Prajapati,
  • Francesco Renga,
  • Rita Joana da Cruz Roque,
  • Filippo Rosatelli,
  • Andrea Russo,
  • Joaquim Marques Ferreira dos Santos,
  • Giovanna Saviano,
  • Neil Spooner,
  • Roberto Tesauro,
  • Sandro Tomassini,
  • Samuele Torelli

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/particles4030029
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 4, no. 3
pp. 343 – 353

Abstract

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The CYGNO project aims at developing a high resolution Time Projection Chamber with optical readout for directional dark matter searches and solar neutrino spectroscopy. Peculiar CYGNO’s features are the 3D tracking capability provided by the combination of photomultipliers and scientific CMOS camera signals, combined with a helium-fluorine-based gas mixture at atmospheric pressure amplified by gas electron multipliers structures. In this paper, the performances achieved with CYGNO prototypes and the prospects for the upcoming underground installation at Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso of a 50-L detector in fall 2021 will be discussed, together with the plans for a 1-m3 experiment. The synergy with the ERC consolidator, grant project INITIUM, aimed at realising negative ion drift operation within the CYGNO 3D optical approach, will be further illustrated.

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