The MIGDAL experiment: Measuring a rare atomic process to aid the search for dark matter

HM Araújo, SN Balashov, JE Borg, FM Brunbauer… - Astroparticle …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract We present the Migdal In Galactic Dark mAtter expLoration (MIGDAL) experiment
aiming at the unambiguous observation and study of the so-called Migdal effect induced by …

The CYGNO experiment

FD Amaro, E Baracchini, L Benussi, S Bianco… - Instruments, 2022 - mdpi.com
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 …

Identification of low energy nuclear recoils in a gas time projection chamber with optical readout

E Baracchini, L Benussi, S Bianco… - Measurement …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
The search for a novel technology, which is able to detect and reconstruct nuclear recoil
events in the keV energy range, has become increasingly important now that vast regions of …

A 50 l Cygno prototype overground characterization

FD Amaro, R Antonietti, E Baracchini, L Benussi… - The European Physical …, 2023 - Springer
The nature of dark matter is still unknown and an experimental program to look for dark
matter particles in our Galaxy should extend its sensitivity to light particles in the GeV mass …

Performance of an optically read out time projection chamber with ultra-relativistic electrons

VC Antochi, E Baracchini, L Benussi, S Bianco… - Nuclear Instruments and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The Time Projection Chamber (TPC) is an ideal candidate to finely study the
charged particle ionization in a gaseous medium. Large volume TPCs can be readout with a …

Noise assessment of CMOS active pixel sensors for the CYGNO Experiment

BD Almeida, FD Amaro, R Antonietti… - Measurement …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Active Pixel sensors play a crucial role in enabling successful low-light scientific
experiments due to their inherent advantages and capabilities. Such devices not only offer …

Observation of strong wavelength-shifting in the argon-tetrafluoromethane system

P Amedo, D González-Díaz, FM Brunbauer… - Frontiers in Detector …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
We report the scintillation spectra of Ar/CF4 mixtures in the range 210–800 nm, obtained
under X-ray irradiation for various pressures (1–5 bar) and concentrations (0%–100%) …

Discovering supernova-produced dark matter with directional detectors

E Baracchini, W DeRocco, G Dho - Physical Review D, 2020 - APS
Supernovae can produce vast fluxes of new particles with masses on the MeV scale, a mass
scale of interest for models of light dark matter. When these new particles become diffusively …

[HTML][HTML] Secondary scintillation yield from GEM electron avalanches in-and--isobutane for CYGNO—Directional Dark Matter search with an optical TPC

FD Amaro, E Baracchini, L Benussi, S Bianco… - Physics Letters B, 2024 - Elsevier
CYGNO is an international collaboration with the aim of operating a Image 3 optical time
projection chamber (TPC) for directional Dark Matter (DM) searches and solar neutrino …

[HTML][HTML] Directional dark matter searches with CYGNO

FD Amaro, E Baracchini, L Benussi, S Bianco… - Particles, 2021 - mdpi.com
The CYGNO project aims at developing a high resolution Time Projection Chamber with
optical readout for directional dark matter searches and solar neutrino spectroscopy …