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1. Benchmarking the design of the cryogenics system for the underground argon in DarkSide-20k

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Collaboration, DarkSide-20k, Acerbi, F., Adhikari, P., Agnes, P., Ahmad, I., Albergo, S., Albuquerque, I. F. M., Alexander, T., Alton, A. K., Amaudruz, P., Angiolilli, M., Aprile, E., Ardito, R., Corona, M. Atzori, Auty, D. J., Ave, M., Avetisov, I. C., Azzolini, O., Back, H. O., Balmforth, Z., Olmedo, A. Barrado, Barrillon, P., Batignani, G., Bhowmick, P., Blua, S., Bocci, V., Bonivento, W., Bottino, B., Boulay, M. G., Buchowicz, A., Bussino, S., Busto, J., Cadeddu, M., Cadoni, M., Calabrese, R., Camillo, V., Caminata, A., Canci, N., Capra, A., Caravati, M., Cárdenas-Montes, M., Cargioli, N., Carlini, M., Castellani, A., Castello, P., Cavalcante, P., Cebrian, S., Ruiz, J. Cela, Chashin, S., Chepurnov, A., Cifarelli, L., Cintas, D., Citterio, M., Cleveland, B., Coadou, Y., Cocco, V., Colaiuda, D., Vilda, E. Conde, Consiglio, L., Costa, B. S., Czubak, M., D'Aniello, M., D'Auria, S., Rolo, M. D. Da Rocha, Darbo, G., Davini, S., De Cecco, S., De Guido, G., Dellacasa, G., Derbin, A. V., Devoto, A., Di Capua, F., Di Ludovico, A., Di Noto, L., Di Stefano, P., Dias, L. K., Mairena, D. Díaz, Ding, X., Dionisi, C., Dolganov, G., Dordei, F., Dronik, V., Elersich, A., Ellingwood, E., Erjavec, T., Diaz, M. Fernandez, Ficorella, A., Fiorillo, G., Franchini, P., Franco, D., Gatti, H. Frandini, Frolov, E., Gabriele, F., Gahan, D., Galbiati, C., Galiński, G., Gallina, G., Gallus, G., Garbini, M., Abia, P. Garcia, Gawdzik, A., Gendotti, A., Ghisi, A., Giovanetti, G. K., Casanueva, V. Goicoechea, Gola, A., Grandi, L., Grauso, G., di Cortona, G. Grilli, Grobov, A., Gromov, M., Guerzoni, M., Gulino, M., Guo, C., Hackett, B. R., Hallin, A., Hamer, A., Haranczyk, M., Harrop, B., Hessel, T., Hill, S., Horikawa, S., Hu, J., Hubaut, F., Hucker, J., Hugues, T., Hungerford, E. V., Ianni, A., Ippolito, V., Jamil, A., Jillings, C., Jois, S., Kachru, P., Keloth, R., Kemmerich, N., Kemp, A., Kendziora, C. L., Kimura, M., Kish, A., Kondo, K., Korga, G., Kotsiopoulou, L., Koulosousas, S., Kubankin, A., Kunzé, P., Kuss, M., Kuźniak, M., Kuzwa, M., La Commara, M., Lai, M., Guirriec, E. Le, Leason, E., Leoni, A., Lidey, L., Lissia, M., Luzzi, L., Lychagina, O., Macfadyen, O., Machulin, I. N., Manecki, S., Manthos, I., Mapelli, L., Marasciulli, A., Mari, S. M., Mariani, C., Maricic, J., Martinez, M., Martoff, C. J., Matteucci, G., Mavrokoridis, K., McDonald, A. B., Mclaughlin, J., Merzi, S., Messina, A., Milincic, R., Minutoli, S., Mitra, A., Moharana, A., Moioli, S., Monroe, J., Moretti, E., Morrocchi, M., Mroz, T., Muratova, V. N., Murphy, M., Murra, M., Muscas, C., Musico, P., Nania, R., Nessi, M., Nieradka, G., Nikolopoulos, K., Nikoloudaki, E., Nowak, J., Olchanski, K., Oleinik, A., Oleynikov, V., Organtini, P., de Solórzano, A. Ortiz, Pallavicini, M., Pandola, L., Pantic, E., Paoloni, E., Papi, D., Pastuszak, G., Paternoster, G., Peck, A., Pegoraro, P. A., Pelczar, K., Pellegrini, L. A., Perez, R., Perotti, F., Pesudo, V., Piacentini, S. I., Pino, N., Plante, G., Pocar, A., Poehlmann, M., Pordes, S., Pralavorio, P., Price, D., Puglia, S., Bazetto, M. Queiroga, Ragusa, F., Ramachers, Y., Ramirez, A., Ravinthiran, S., Razeti, M., Renshaw, A. L., Rescigno, M., Retiere, F., Rignanese, L. P., Rivetti, A., Roberts, A., Roberts, C., Rogers, G., Romero, L., Rossi, M., Rubbia, A., Rudik, D., Sabia, M., Salomone, P., Samoylov, O., Sandford, E., Sanfilippo, S., Santone, D., Santorelli, R., Santos, E. M., Savarese, C., Scapparone, E., Schillaci, G., Schuckman II, F. G., Scioli, G., Semenov, D. A., Shalamova, V., Sheshukov, A., Simeone, M., Skensved, P., Skorokhvatov, M. D., Smirnov, O., Smirnova, T., Smith, B., Sotnikov, A., Spadoni, F., Spangenberg, M., Stefanizzi, R., Steri, A., Stornelli, V., Stracka, S., Sulis, S., Sung, A., Sunny, C., Suvorov, Y., Szelc, A. M., Taborda, O., Tartaglia, R., Taylor, A., Taylor, J., Tedesco, S., Testera, G., Thieme, K., Thompson, A., Thorpe, T. N., Tonazzo, A., Torres-Lara, S., Tricomi, A., Unzhakov, E. V., Vallivilayil, T. J., Van Uffelen, M., Velazquez-Fernandez, L., Viant, T., Viel, S., Vishneva, A., Vogelaar, R. B., Vossebeld, J., Vyas, B., Wada, M., Walczak, M. B., Wang, H., Wang, Y., Westerdale, S., Williams, L., Wojaczyński, R., Wojcik, M., Wojcik, M. M., Wright, T., Xiao, X., Xie, Y., Yang, C., Yin, J., Zabihi, A., Zakhary, P., Zani, A., Zhang, Y., Zhu, T., Zichichi, A., Zuzel, G., and Zykova, M. P.

Subjects
Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract

DarkSide-20k (DS-20k) is a dark matter detection experiment under construction at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (LNGS) in Italy. It utilises ~100 t of low radioactivity argon from an underground source (UAr) in its inner detector, with half serving as target in a dual-phase time projection chamber (TPC). The UAr cryogenics system must maintain stable thermodynamic conditions throughout the experiment's lifetime of >10 years. Continuous removal of impurities and radon from the UAr is essential for maximising signal yield and mitigating background. We are developing an efficient and powerful cryogenics system with a gas purification loop with a target circulation rate of 1000 slpm. Central to its design is a condenser operated with liquid nitrogen which is paired with a gas heat exchanger cascade, delivering a combined cooling power of >8 kW. Here we present the design choices in view of the DS-20k requirements, in particular the condenser's working principle and the cooling control, and we show test results obtained with a dedicated benchmarking platform at CERN and LNGS. We find that the thermal efficiency of the recirculation loop, defined in terms of nitrogen consumption per argon flow rate, is 95 % and the pressure in the test cryostat can be maintained within $\pm$(0.1-0.2) mbar. We further detail a 5-day cool-down procedure of the test cryostat, maintaining a cooling rate typically within -2 K/h, as required for the DS-20k inner detector. Additionally, we assess the circuit's flow resistance, and the heat transfer capabilities of two heat exchanger geometries for argon phase change, used to provide gas for recirculation. We conclude by discussing how our findings influence the finalisation of the system design, including necessary modifications to meet requirements and ongoing testing activities., Comment: 45 pages, 24 figures

Published
2024

2. DarkSide-20k sensitivity to light dark matter particles

Author

Collaboration, DarkSide-20k, Acerbi, F., Adhikari, P., Agnes, P., Ahmad, I., Albergo, S., Albuquerque, I. F. M., Alexander, T., Alton, A. K., Amaudruz, P., Angiolilli, M., Aprile, E., Ardito, R., Corona, M. Atzori, Auty, D. J., Ave, M., Avetisov, I. C., Azzolini, O., Back, H. O., Balmforth, Z., Olmedo, A. Barrado, Barrillon, P., Batignani, G., Bhowmick, P., Blua, S., Bocci, V., Bonivento, W., Bottino, B., Boulay, M. G., Buchowicz, A., Bussino, S., Busto, J., Cadeddu, M., Cadoni, M., Calabrese, R., Camillo, V., Caminata, A., Canci, N., Capra, A., Caravati, M., Cárdenas-Montes, M., Cargioli, N., Carlini, M., Castellani, A., Castello, P., Cavalcante, P., Cebrian, S., Ruiz, J. M. Cela, Chashin, S., Chepurnov, A., Cifarelli, L., Cintas, D., Citterio, M., Cleveland, B., Coadou, Y., Cocco, V., Colaiuda, D., Vilda, E. Conde, Consiglio, L., Costa, B. S., Czubak, M., D'Aniello, M., D'Auria, S., Rolo, M. D. Da Rocha, Darbo, G., Davini, S., De Cecco, S., De Guido, G., Dellacasa, G., Derbin, A. V., Devoto, A., Di Capua, F., Di Ludovico, A., Di Noto, L., Di Stefano, P., Dias, L. K., Mairena, D. Díaz, Ding, X., Dionisi, C., Dolganov, G., Dordei, F., Dronik, V., Elersich, A., Ellingwood, E., Erjavec, T., Diaz, M. Fernandez, Ficorella, A., Fiorillo, G., Franchini, P., Franco, D., Gatti, H. Frandini, Frolov, E., Gabriele, F., Gahan, D., Galbiati, C., Galiński, G., Gallina, G., Gallus, G., Garbini, M., Abia, P. Garcia, Gawdzik, A., Gendotti, A., Ghisi, A., Giovanetti, G. K., Casanueva, V. Goicoechea, Gola, A., Grandi, L., Grauso, G., di Cortona, G. Grilli, Grobov, A., Gromov, M., Guerzoni, M., Gulino, M., Guo, C., Hackett, B. R., Hallin, A., Hamer, A., Haranczyk, M., Harrop, B., Hessel, T., Hill, S., Horikawa, S., Hu, J., Hubaut, F., Hucker, J., Hugues, T., Hungerford, E. V., Ianni, A., Ippolito, V., Jamil, A., Jillings, C., Jois, S., Kachru, P., Keloth, R., Kemmerich, N., Kemp, A., Kendziora, C. L., Kimura, M., Kondo, K., Korga, G., Kotsiopoulou, L., Koulosousas, S., Kubankin, A., Kunzé, P., Kuss, M., Kuźniak, M., Kuzwa, M., La Commara, M., Lai, M., Guirriec, E. Le, Leason, E., Leoni, A., Lidey, L., Lissia, M., Luzzi, L., Lychagina, O., Macfadyen, O., Machulin, I. N., Manecki, S., Manthos, I., Mapelli, L., Marasciulli, A., Mari, S. M., Mariani, C., Maricic, J., Martinez, M., Martoff, C. J., Matteucci, G., Mavrokoridis, K., McDonald, A. B., Mclaughlin, J., Merzi, S., Messina, A., Milincic, R., Minutoli, S., Mitra, A., Moioli, S., Monroe, J., Moretti, E., Morrocchi, M., Mroz, T., Muratova, V. N., Murphy, M., Murra, M., Muscas, C., Musico, P., Nania, R., Nessi, M., Nieradka, G., Nikolopoulos, K., Nikoloudaki, E., Nowak, J., Olchanski, K., Oleinik, A., Oleynikov, V., Organtini, P., de Solórzano, A. Ortiz, Pallavicini, M., Pandola, L., Pantic, E., Paoloni, E., Papi, D., Pastuszak, G., Paternoster, G., Peck, A., Pegoraro, P. A., Pelczar, K., Pellegrini, L. A., Perez, R., Perotti, F., Pesudo, V., Piacentini, S. I., Pino, N., Plante, G., Pocar, A., Poehlmann, M., Pordes, S., Pralavorio, P., Price, D., Puglia, S., Bazetto, M. Queiroga, Ragusa, F., Ramachers, Y., Ramirez, A., Ravinthiran, S., Razeti, M., Renshaw, A. L., Rescigno, M., Retiere, F., Rignanese, L. P., Rivetti, A., Roberts, A., Roberts, C., Rogers, G., Romero, L., Rossi, M., Rubbia, A., Rudik, D., Sabia, M., Salomone, P., Samoylov, O., Sandford, E., Sanfilippo, S., Santone, D., Santorelli, R., Santos, E. M., Savarese, C., Scapparone, E., Schillaci, G., Schuckman II, F. G., Scioli, G., Semenov, D. A., Shalamova, V., Sheshukov, A., Simeone, M., Skensved, P., Skorokhvatov, M. D., Smirnov, O., Smirnova, T., Smith, B., Sotnikov, A., Spadoni, F., Spangenberg, M., Stefanizzi, R., Steri, A., Stornelli, V., Stracka, S., Sulis, S., Sung, A., Sunny, C., Suvorov, Y., Szelc, A. M., Taborda, O., Tartaglia, R., Taylor, A., Taylor, J., Tedesco, S., Testera, G., Thieme, K., Thompson, A., Tonazzo, A., Torres-Lara, S., Tricomi, A., Unzhakov, E. V., Vallivilayil, T. J., Van Uffelen, M., Velazquez-Fernandez, L., Viant, T., Viel, S., Vishneva, A., Vogelaar, R. B., Vossebeld, J., Vyas, B., Walczak, M. B., Wang, Y., Wang, H., Westerdale, S., Williams, L., Wojaczyński, R., Wojcik, M., Wojcik, M. M., Wright, T., Xie, Y., Yang, C., Yin, J., Zabihi, A., Zakhary, P., Zani, A., Zhang, Y., Zhu, T., Zichichi, A., Zuzel, G., and Zykova, M. P.

Subjects
High Energy Physics - Experiment, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

The dual-phase liquid argon time projection chamber is presently one of the leading technologies to search for dark matter particles with masses below 10 GeV/c$^2$. This was demonstrated by the DarkSide-50 experiment with approximately 50 kg of low-radioactivity liquid argon as target material. The next generation experiment DarkSide-20k, currently under construction, will use 1,000 times more argon and is expected to start operation in 2027. Based on the DarkSide-50 experience, here we assess the DarkSide-20k sensitivity to models predicting light dark matter particles, including Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) and sub-GeV/c$^2$ particles interacting with electrons in argon atoms. With one year of data, a sensitivity improvement to dark matter interaction cross-sections by at least one order of magnitude with respect to DarkSide-50 is expected for all these models. A sensitivity to WIMP--nucleon interaction cross-sections below $1\times10^{-42}$ cm$^2$ is achievable for WIMP masses above 800 MeV/c$^2$. With 10 years exposure, the neutrino fog can be reached for WIMP masses around 5 GeV/c$^2$., Comment: submitted to Nature Communications

Published
2024

3. Relative Measurement and Extrapolation of the Scintillation Quenching Factor of $\alpha$-Particles in Liquid Argon using DEAP-3600 Data

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The DEAP Collaboration, Adhikari, P., Alpízar-Venegas, M., Amaudruz, P. -A., Anstey, J., Auty, D. J., Batygov, M., Beltran, B., Bina, C. E., Bonivento, W., Boulay, M. G., Bueno, J. F., Cai, B., Cárdenas-Montes, M., Choudhary, S., Cleveland, B. T., Crampton, R., Daugherty, S., DelGobbo, P., Di Stefano, P., Dolganov, G., Doria, L., Duncan, F. A., Dunford, M., Ellingwood, E., Erlandson, A., Farahani, S. S., Fatemighomi, N., Fiorillo, G., Ford, R. J., Gahan, D., Gallacher, D., Abia, P. García, Garg, S., Giampa, P., Giménez-Alcázar, A., Goeldi, D., Gorel, P., Graham, K., Hallin, A. L., Hamstra, M., Haskins, S., Hu, J., Hucker, J., Hugues, T., Ilyasov, A., Jigmeddorj, B., Jillings, C. J., Kaur, G., Yazdi, M. Khoshraftar, Kemp, A., Kuźniak, M., La Zia, F., Lai, M., Langrock, S., Lehnert, B., Levashko, N., Lissia, M., Luzzi, L., Machulin, I., Maru, A., Mason, J., McDonald, A. B., McElroy, T., McLaughlin, J. B., Mielnichuk, C., Mirasola, L., Moharana, A., Monroe, J., Murray, A., Ng, C., Oliviéro, G., Olszewski, M., Pal, S., Papi, D., Park, B., Perry, M., Pesudo, V., Pollmann, T. R., Rad, F., Rethmeier, C., Retière, F., Roszkowski, L., Santorelli, R., Schuckman II, F. G., Seth, S., Shalamova, V., Skensved, P., Smirnova, T., Sobotkiewich, K., Sonley, T., Sosiak, J., Soukup, J., Stainforth, R., Stringer, M., Tang, J., Vázquez-Jáuregui, E., Viel, S., Vyas, B., Walczak, M., Walding, J., Ward, M., Westerdale, S., and Wormington, R.

Subjects
Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract

The knowledge of scintillation quenching of $\alpha$-particles plays a paramount role in understanding $\alpha$-induced backgrounds and improving the sensitivity of liquid argon-based direct detection of dark matter experiments. We performed a relative measurement of scintillation quenching in the MeV energy region using radioactive isotopes ($^{222}$Rn, $^{218}$Po and $^{214}$Po isotopes) present in trace amounts in the DEAP-3600 detector and quantified the uncertainty of extrapolating the quenching factor to the low-energy region., Comment: 9 pages, 6 figures (added 1 figure, revised 3 figures), 2 tables, revised sections 3, 4, 5. Accepted in Eur. Phys. J. C

Published
2024

4. A new hybrid gadolinium nanoparticles-loaded polymeric material for neutron detection in rare event searches

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Collaboration, DarkSide-20k, Acerbi, F., Adhikari, P., Agnes, P., Ahmad, I., Albergo, S., Albuquerque, I. F., Alexander, T., Alton, A. K., Amaudruz, P., Angiolilli, M., Aprile, E., Ardito, R., Corona, M. Atzori, Auty, D. J., Ave, M., Avetisov, I. C., Azzolini, O., Back, H. O., Balmforth, Z., Olmedo, A. Barrado, Barrillon, P., Batignani, G., Bhowmick, P., Bocci, V., Bonivento, W., Bottino, B., Boulay, M. G., Buchowicz, A., Bussino, S., Busto, J., Cadeddu, M., Cadoni, M., Calabrese, R., Camillo, V., Caminata, A., Canci, N., Capra, A., Caravati, M., Cárdenas-Montes, M., Cargioli, N., Carlini, M., Castellani, A., Castello, P., Cavalcante, P., Cavallo, D., Cebrian, S., Ruiz, J. Cela, Chashin, S., Chepurnov, A., Cifarelli, L., Cintas, D., Citterio, M., Cleveland, B., Coadou, Y., Cocco, V., Colaiuda, D., Vilda, E. Conde, Consiglio, L., Costa, B. S., Czubak, M., D'Auria, S., Rolo, M. D. Da Rocha, Darbo, G., Davini, S., De Cecco, S., De Guido, G., Dellacasa, G., Derbin, A. V., Devoto, A., Di Capua, F., Di Ludovico, A., Di Noto, L., Di Stefano, P., Dias, L. K., Mairena, D. Díaz, Ding, X., Dionisi, C., Dolganov, G., Dordei, F., Dronik, V., Elersich, A., Ellingwood, E., Erjavec, T., Diaz, M. Fernandez, Ficorella, A., Fiorillo, G., Franchini, P., Franco, D., Gatti, H. Frandini, Frolov, E., Gabriele, F., Gahan, D., Galbiati, C., Galinski, G., Gallina, G., Garbini, M., Abia, P. Garcia, Gawdzik, A., Gendotti, A., Ghisi, A., Giovanetti, G. K., Casanueva, V. Goicoechea, Gola, A., Grandi, L., Grauso, G., di Cortona, G. Grilli, Grobov, A., Gromov, M., Guerzoni, M., Gulino, M., Guo, C., Hackett, B. R., Hallin, A., Hamer, A., Haranczyk, M., Harrop, B., Hessel, T., Hill, S., Horikawa, S., Hu, J., Hubaut, F., Hucker, J., Hugues, T., Hungerford, E. V., Ianni, A., Ippolito, V., Jamil, A., Jillings, C., Keloth, R., Kemmerich, N., Kemp, A., Kendziora, C. L., Kimura, M., Kondo, K., Korga, G., Kotsiopoulou, L., Koulosousas, S., Kubankin, A., Kuss, M., Kuzniak, M., Kuzwa, M., La Commara, M., Lai, M., Guirriec, E. Le, Leason, E., Leoni, A., Lidey, L., Lissia, M., Luzzi, L., Lychagina, O., Macfadyen, O., Machulin, I. N., Manecki, S., Manthos, I., Mapelli, L., Marasciulli, A., Mari, S. M., Mariani, C., Maricic, J., Marini, A., Martinez, M., Martoff, C. J., Matteucci, G., Mavrokoridis, K., McDonald, A. B., Mclaughlin, J., Merzi, S., Messina, A., Milincic, R., Minutoli, S., Mitra, A., Moharana, A., Moioli, S., Monroe, J., Moretti, E., Morrocchi, M., Mroz, T., Muratova, V. N., Murphy, M., Murra, M., Muscas, C., Musico, P., Nania, R., Nessi, M., Nieradka, G., Nikolopoulos, K., Nikoloudaki, E., Nowak, J., Olchanski, K., Oleinik, A., Oleynikov, V., Organtini, P., de Solórzano, A. Ortiz, Pallavicini, M., Pandola, L., Pantic, E., Paoloni, E., Papi, D., Pastuszak, G., Paternoster, G., Peddis, D., Pegoraro, P. A., Pelczar, K., Pellegrini, L. A., Perez, R., Perotti, F., Pesudo, V., Piacentini, S. I., Pino, N., Plante, G., Pocar, A., Poehlmann, M., Pordes, S., Pralavorio, P., Price, D., Puglia, S., Bazetto, M. Queiroga, Ragusa, F., Ramachers, Y., Ramirez, A., Ravinthiran, S., Razeti, M., Renshaw, A. L., Rescigno, M., Retiere, F., Rignanese, L. P., Rivetti, A., Roberts, A., Roberts, C., Rogers, G., Romero, L., Rossi, M., Rubbia, A., Rudik, D., Sabia, M., Sadashivajois, S., Salomone, P., Samoylov, O., Sandford, E., Sanfilippo, S., Santone, D., Santorelli, R., Santos, E. M., Savarese, C., Scapparone, E., Schillaci, G., Schuckman II, F. G., Scioli, G., Semenov, D. A., Sheshukov, A., Simeone, M., Skensved, P., Skorokhvatov, M. D., Slimani, S., Smirnov, O., Smirnova, T., Smith, B., Sotnikov, A., Spadoni, F., Spangenberg, M., Stefanizzi, R., Steri, A., Stornelli, V., Stracka, S., Sulis, S., Sung, A., Sunny, C., Suvorov, Y., Szelc, A. M., Taborda, O., Tartaglia, R., Taylor, A., Taylor, J., Tedesco, S., Testera, G., Thieme, K., Thompson, A., Tonazzo, A., Torres-Lara, S., Tosi, S., Tricomi, A., Unzhakov, E. V., Vallivilayil, T. J., Van Uffelen, M., Velazquez-Fernandez, L., Viant, T., Vicini, S., Viel, S., Vishneva, A., Vogelaar, R. B., Vossebeld, J., Vyas, B., Wada, M., Walczak, M. B., Wang, H., Wang, Y., Westerdale, S., Williams, L., Wojaczynski, R., Wojcik, M. M., Wojcik, M., Wright, T., Xie, Y., Yang, C., Yin, J., Zabihi, A., Zakhary, P., Zani, A., Zhang, Y., Zhu, T., Zichichi, A., Zuzel, G., and Zykova, M. P.

Subjects
Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract

Experiments aimed at direct searches for WIMP dark matter require highly effective reduction of backgrounds and control of any residual radioactive contamination. In particular, neutrons interacting with atomic nuclei represent an important class of backgrounds due to the expected similarity of a WIMP-nucleon interaction, so that such experiments often feature a dedicated neutron detector surrounding the active target volume. In the context of the development of DarkSide-20k detector at INFN Gran Sasso National Laboratory (LNGS), several R&D projects were conceived and developed for the creation of a new hybrid material rich in both hydrogen and gadolinium nuclei to be employed as an essential element of the neutron detector. Thanks to its very high cross-section for neutron capture, gadolinium is one of the most widely used elements in neutron detectors, while the hydrogen-rich material is instrumental in efficiently moderating the neutrons. In this paper results from one of the R&Ds are presented. In this effort the new hybrid material was obtained as a poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) matrix, loaded with gadolinium oxide in the form of nanoparticles. We describe its realization, including all phases of design, purification, construction, characterization, and determination of mechanical properties of the new material.

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2024
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6. Directionality of nuclear recoils in a liquid argon time projection chamber

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Collaboration, The DarkSide-20k, Agnes, P., Ahmad, I., Albergo, S., Albuquerque, I. F. M., Alexander, T., Alton, A. K., Amaudruz, P., Corona, M. Atzori, Ave, M., Avetisov, I. Ch., Azzolini, O., Back, H. O., Balmforth, Z., Barrado-Olmedo, A., Barrillon, P., Basco, A., Batignani, G., Bocci, V., Bonivento, W. M., Bottino, B., Boulay, M. G., Busto, J., Cadeddu, M., Caminata, A., Canci, N., Cappello, G., Capra, A., Caprioli, S., Caravati, M., Cargioli, N., Carlini, M., Castello, P., Cataudella, V., Cavalcante, P., Cavuoti, S., Cebrian, S., Ruiz, J. M. Cela, Chashin, S., Chepurnov, A., Chyhyrynets, E., Cifarelli, L., Cintas, D., Citterio, M., Cleveland, B., Cocco, V., Vilda, E. Conde, Consiglio, L., Copello, S., Covone, G., Czubak, M., D'Aniello, M., D'Auria, S., Rolo, M. D. Da Rocha, Davini, S., de Candia, A., De Cecco, S., De Gruttola, D., De Filippis, G., Dell'Aquila, D., De Pasquale, S., De Rosa, G., Dellacasa, G., Derbin, A. V., Devoto, A., Di Capua, F., Di Noto, L., Dionisi, C., Di Stefano, P., Dolganov, G., Dordei, F., Elersich, A., Ellingwood, E., Erjavec, T., Diaz, M. Fernandez, Fiorillo, G., Franchini, P., Franco, D., Funicello, N., Gabriele, F., Gahan, D., Galbiati, C., Gallina, G., Gallus, G., Garbini, M., Abia, P. Garcia, Gendotti, A., Ghiano, C., Giganti, C., Giovanetti, G. K., Casanueva, V. Goicoechea, Gola, A., Grauso, G., di Cortona, G. Grilli, Grobov, A., Gromov, M., Guan, M., Guerzoni, M., Gulino, M., Guo, C., Hackett, B. R., Hallin, A. L., Hamer, A., Haranczyk, M., Hessel, T., Hill, S., Horikawa, S., Hubaut, F., Hucker, J., Hugues, T., Ianni, An., Ippolito, V., Jillings, C., Jois, S., Kachru, P., Kemmerich, N., Kemp, A. A., Kendziora, C. L., Kimura, M., Kochanek, I., Kondo, K., Korga, G., Koulosousas, S., Kubankin, A., Kuss, M., Kuzniak, M., La Commara, M., Lai, M., Guirriec, E. Le, Leason, E., Leoni, A., Li, X., Lidey, L., Lissia, M., Luzzi, L., Lychagina, O., Macfadyen, O., Machulin, I. N., Manecki, S., Manthos, I., Mapelli, L., Margotti, A., Marik, S. M., Mariani, C., Maricic, J., Marini, A., Martínez, M., Martoff, C. J., Matteucci, G., Mavrokoridis, K., McDonald, A. B., Messina, A., Milincic, R., Mitra, A., Moharana, A., Monroe, J., Moretti, E., Morrocchi, M., Mróz, T., Muratova, V. N., Muscas, C., Musico, P., Nania, R., Nessi, M., Nieradka, G., Nikolopoulos, K., Nowak, J., Olchansky, K., Oleinik, A., Oleynikov, V., Organtini, P., de Solórzano, A. Ortiz, Pagani, L., Pallavicini, M., Pandola, L., Pantic, E., Paoloni, E., Paternoster, G., Pegoraro, P. A., Pelczar, K., Pesudo, V., Piacentini, S., Pino, N., Pocar, A., Poehlmann, D. M., Pordes, S., Pralavorio, P., Price, D., Ragusa, F., Ramachers, Y., Razeti, M., Renshaw, A. L., Rescigno, M., Retiere, F., Rignanese, L. P., Ripoli, C., Rivetti, A., Roberts, A., Roberts, C., Rode, J., Rogers, G., Romero, L., Rossi, M., Rubbia, A., Sabia, M. A., Salomone, P., Sandford, E., Sanfilippo, S., Santone, D., Santorelli, R., Savarese, C., Scapparone, E., Schillaci, G., Schuckman II, F. G., Scioli, G., Simeone, M., Skensved, P., Skorokhvatov, M. D., Smirnov, O., Smirnova, T., Smith, B., Sosa, A., Spadoni, F., Spangenberg, M., Stefanizzi, R., Steri, A., Stornelli, V., Stracka, S., Stringer, M., Sulis, S., Sung, A., Suvorov, Y., Szelc, A. M., Tartaglia, R., Taylor, A., Taylor, J., Tedesco, S., Testera, G., Thieme, K., Thorpe, T. N., Tonazzo, A., Tricomi, A., Unzhakov, E. V., John, T. Vallivilayil, Van Uffelen, M., Viant, T., Viel, S., Vogelaar, R. B., Vossebeld, J., Wada, M., Walczak, M. B., Wang, H., Wang, Y., Westerdale, S., Williams, L., Wingerter-Seez, I., Wojaczynski, R., Wojcik, Ma. M., Wright, T., Xie, Y., Yang, C., Zabihi, A., Zakhary, P., Zani, A., Zichichi, A., Zuzel, G., and Zykova, M. P.

Subjects
Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract

The direct search for dark matter in the form of weakly interacting massive particles (WIMP) is performed by detecting nuclear recoils (NR) produced in a target material from the WIMP elastic scattering. A promising experimental strategy for direct dark matter search employs argon dual-phase time projection chambers (TPC). One of the advantages of the TPC is the capability to detect both the scintillation and charge signals produced by NRs. Furthermore, the existence of a drift electric field in the TPC breaks the rotational symmetry: the angle between the drift field and the momentum of the recoiling nucleus can potentially affect the charge recombination probability in liquid argon and then the relative balance between the two signal channels. This fact could make the detector sensitive to the directionality of the WIMP-induced signal, enabling unmistakable annual and daily modulation signatures for future searches aiming for discovery. The Recoil Directionality (ReD) experiment was designed to probe for such directional sensitivity. The TPC of ReD was irradiated with neutrons at the INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Sud, and data were taken with 72 keV NRs of known recoil directions. The direction-dependent liquid argon charge recombination model by Cataudella et al. was adopted and a likelihood statistical analysis was performed, which gave no indications of significant dependence of the detector response to the recoil direction. The aspect ratio R of the initial ionization cloud is estimated to be 1.037 +/- 0.027 and the upper limit is R < 1.072 with 90% confidence level, Comment: 20 pages, 10 figures, submitted to Eur. Phys. J. C

Published
2023

7. Precision Measurement of the Specific Activity of $^{39}$Ar in Atmospheric Argon with the DEAP-3600 Detector

Author

Adhikari, P., Ajaj, R., Alpízar-Venegas, M., Amaudruz, P. -A., Anstey, J., Araujo, G. R., Auty, D. J., Baldwin, M., Batygov, M., Beltran, B., Benmansour, H., Bina, C. E., Bonatt, J., Bonivento, W., Boulay, M. G., Broerman, B., Bueno, J. F., Burghardt, P. M., Butcher, A., Cadeddu, M., Cai, B., Cárdenas-Montes, M., Cavuoti, S., Chen, M., Chen, Y., Choudhary, S., Cleveland, B. T., Corning, J. M., Crampton, R., Cranshaw, D., Daughtery, S., DelGobbo, P., Dering, K., Di Stefano, P., DiGioseffo, J., Dolganov, G., Doria, L., Duncan, F. A., Dunford, M., Ellingwood, E., Erlandson, A., Farahani, S. S., Fatemighomi, N., Fiorillo, G., Florian, S., Flower, A., Ford, R. J., Gagnon, R., Gallacher, D., Abia, P. García, Garg, S., Giampa, P., Giménez-Alcázar, A., Goeldi, D., Golovko, V. V., Gorel, P., Graham, K., Grant, D. R., Grobov, A., Hallin, A. L., Hamstra, M., Harvey, P. J., Haskins, S., Hearns, C., Hu, J., Hucker, J., Hugues, T., Ilyasov, A., Jigmeddorj, B., Jillings, C. J., Joy, A., Kamaev, O., Kaur, G., Kemp, A., Kuźniak, M., La Zia, F., Lai, M., Langrock, S., Lehnert, B., Leonhardt, A., LePage-Bourbonnais, J., Levashko, N., Lidgard, J., Lindner, T., Lissia, M., Lock, J., Machulin, I., Majewski, P., Maru, A., Mason, J., McDonald, A. B., McElroy, T., McGinn, T., McLaughlin, J. B., Mehdiyev, R., Mielnichuk, C., Mirasola, L., Monroe, J., Nadeau, P., Nantais, C., Ng, C., Noble, A. J., O'Dwyer, E., Oliviéro, G., Ouellet, C., Pal, S., Papi, D., Pasuthip, P., Peeters, S. J. M., Perry, M., Pesudo, V., Picciau, E., Piro, M. -C., Pollmann, T. R., Rad, F., Rand, E. T., Rethmeier, C., Retière, F., García, I. Rodríguez, Roszkowski, L., Ruhland, J. B., Santorelli, R., Schuckman II, F. G., Seeburn, N., Seth, S., Shalamova, V., Singhrao, K., Skensved, P., Smith, N. J. T., Smith, B., Sobotkiewich, K., Sonley, T., Sosiak, J., Soukup, J., Stainforth, R., Stone, C., Strickland, V., Stringer, M., Sur, B., Tang, J., Vázquez-Jáuregui, E., Veloce, L., Viel, S., Vyas, B., Walczak, M., Walding, J., Ward, M., Westerdale, S., Willis, J., and Zuñiga-Reyes, A.

Subjects
Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract

The specific activity of the beta decay of $^{39}$Ar in atmospheric argon is measured using the DEAP-3600 detector. DEAP-3600, located 2 km underground at SNOLAB, uses a total of (3269 $\pm$ 24) kg of liquid argon distilled from the atmosphere to search for dark matter. This detector with very low background uses pulseshape discrimination to differentiate between nuclear recoils and electron recoils and is well-suited to measure the decay of $^{39}$Ar. With 167 live-days of data, the measured specific activity at the time of atmospheric extraction is [0.964 $\pm$ 0.001 (stat) $\pm$ 0.024 (sys)] Bq/kg$_{\rm atmAr}$ which is consistent with results from other experiments. A cross-check analysis using different event selection criteria provides a consistent result.

Published
2023
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8. Sensitivity projections for a dual-phase argon TPC optimized for light dark matter searches through the ionization channel

Author

Agnes, P., Ahmad, I., Albergo, S., Albuquerque, I. F. M., Alexander, T., Alton, A. K., Amaudruz, P., Corona, M. Atzori, Auty, D. J., Ave, M., Avetisov, I. Ch., Avetisov, R. I., Azzolini, O., Back, H. O., Balmforth, Z., Barbarian, V., Olmedo, A. Barrado, Barrillon, P., Basco, A., Batignani, G., Berzin, E., Bondar, A., Bonivento, W. M., Borisova, E., Bottino, B., Boulay, M. G., Buccino, G., Bussino, S., Busto, J., Buzulutskov, A., Cadeddu, M., Cadoni, M., Caminata, A., Canci, N., Capra, A., Caprioli, S., Caravati, M., Cárdenas-Montes, M., Cargioli, N., Carlini, M., Castello, P., Cataudella, V., Cavalcante, P., Cavuoti, S., Cebrian, S., Ruiz, J. M. Cela, Chashin, S., Chepurnov, A., Chyhyrynets, E, Cicalò, C., Cifarelli, L., Cintas, D., Cocco, V., Vilda, E. Conde, Consiglio, L., Copello, S., Covone, G., Cross, S., Czudak, P., D'Aniello, M., D'Auria, S., Rolo, M. D. Da Rocha, Dadoun, O., Daniel, M., Davini, S., De Candia, A., De Cecco, S., De Falco, A., De Filippis, G., De Gruttola, D., De Pasquale, S., De Rosa, G., Dellacasa, G., Derbin, A. V., Devoto, A., Di Capua, F., Di Noto, L., Di Stefano, P., Dionisi, C., Dolganov, G., Dordei, F., Doria, L., Erjavec, T., Diaz, M. Fernandez, Fiorillo, G., Franceschi, A., Franchini, P., Franco, D., Frolov, E., Funicello, N., Gabriele, F., Gahan, D., Galbiati, C., Gallina, G., Gallus, G., Garbini, M., Abia, P. Garcia, Gendotti, A., Ghiano, C., Giampaolo, R. A., Giganti, C., Giorgi, M. A., Giovanetti, G. K., Casanueva, V. Goicoechea, Gola, A., Gorman, D., Diaz, R. Graciani, Grauso, G., di Cortona, G. Grilli, Grobov, A., Gromov, M., Guan, M., Guerzoni, M., Gulino, M., Guo, C., Hackett, B. R., Hall, J. B., Hallin, A. L., Hamer, A., Helton, H., Haranczyk, M., Hessel, T., Hill, S., Horikawa, S., Hubaut, F., Hugues, T., Hungerford, E. V., Ianni, An., Ippolito, V., Jillings, C., Kachru, P., Kemp, A. A., Kendziora, C. L., Keppel, G., Khomyakov, A. V., Kimura, M., Kochanek, I., Kondo, K., Korga, G., Koulosousas, S., Kubankin, A., Kuss, M., Kuźniak, M., La Commara, M., Lai, M., Guirriec, E. Le, Leason, E., Li, X., Lidey, L., Lipp, J., Lissia, M., Longo, G., Luzzi, L., Macfadyen, O., Machulin, I. N., Manthos, I., Mapelli, L., Margotti, A., Mari, S. M., Mariani, C., Maricic, J., Marini, A., Martínez, M., Martoff, C. J., Masoni, A., Mavrokoridis, K., Mazzi, A., McDonald, A. B., Messina, A., Milincic, R., Moggi, A., Moharana, A., Monroe, J., Morrocchi, M., Mozhevitina, E. N., Mróz, T., Muratova, V. N., Muscas, C., Musico, P., Nania, R., Napolitano, T., Nessi, M., Nieradka, G., Nikolopoulos, K., Nikulin, I., Nowak, J., Olchansky, K., Oleinik, A., Oleynikov, V., Organtini, P., de Solórzano, A. Ortiz, Pagani, L., Pallavicini, M., Pandola, L., Pantic, E., Paoloni, E., Paternoster, G., Pegoraro, P. A., Pelczar, K., Pellegrino, C., Perotti, F., Pesudo, V., Piacentini, S., Pietropaolo, F., Pino, N., Pira, C., Pocar, A., Poehlmann, D. M., Pordes, S., Pralavorio, P., Price, D., Raffaelli, F., Ragusa, F., Ramachers, Y., Ramirez, A., Razeti, M., Razeto, A., Renshaw, A. L., Rescigno, M., Resnati, F., Retiere, F., Rignanese, L. P., Ripoli, C., Rivetti, A., Roberts, A., Roberts, C., Rode, J., Rogers, G., Romero, L., Rossi, M., Rubbia, A., Sadashivajois, S., Saffold, T. R., Samoylov, O., Sandford, E., Sanfilippo, S., Santone, D., Santorelli, R., Savarese, C., Scapparone, E., Scioli, G., Semenov, D. A., Shchagin, A., Sheshukov, A., Simeone, M., Skensved, P., Skorokhvatov, M. D., Smirnov, O., Smirnova, T., Smith, B., Sokolov, A., Spangenberg, M., Stefanizzi, R., Steri, A., Stracka, S., Strickland, V., Stringer, M., Sulis, S., Sung, A., Suvorov, Y., Szelc, A. M., Türkoğ, C., Tartaglia, R., Taylor, A., Taylor, J., Tedesco, S., Testera, G., Thieme, K., Thorpe, T. N., Tonazzo, A., Torres-Lara, S., Tricomi, A., Unzhakov, E. V., John, T. Vallivilayil, Van Uffelen, M., Viant, T., Viel, S., Vishneva, A., Vogelaar, R. B., Vossebeld, J., Wada, M., Walczak, M. B., Wang, Y., Westerdale, S., Wheadon, R. J., Williams, L., Wingerter-Seez, I., Wojaczyński, R., Wojcik, Ma. M., Wojcik, Ma., Wright, T., Xie, Y., Yang, C., Zabihi, A., Zakhary, P., Zani, A., Zichichi, A., Zuzel, G., and Zykova, M. P.

Subjects
Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract

Dark matter lighter than 10 GeV/c$^2$ encompasses a promising range of candidates. A conceptual design for a new detector, DarkSide-LowMass, is presented, based on the DarkSide-50 detector and progress toward DarkSide-20k, optimized for a low-threshold electron-counting measurement. Sensitivity to light dark matter is explored for various potential energy thresholds and background rates. These studies show that DarkSide-LowMass can achieve sensitivity to light dark matter down to the solar neutrino floor for GeV-scale masses and significant sensitivity down to 10 MeV/c$^2$ considering the Migdal effect or interactions with electrons. Requirements for optimizing the detector's sensitivity are explored, as are potential sensitivity gains from modeling and mitigating spurious electron backgrounds that may dominate the signal at the lowest energies.

Published
2022
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9. Performance of the ReD TPC, a novel double-phase LAr detector with Silicon Photomultiplier Readout

Author

Agnes, P., Albergo, S., Albuquerque, I., Arba, M., Ave, M., Boiano, A., Bonivento, W. M., Bottino, B., Bussino, S., Cadeddu, M., Caminata, A., Canci, N., Cappello, G., Caravati, M., Cariello, M., Castellano, S., Catalanotti, S., Cataudella, V., Cereseto, R., Cesarano, R., Cicalò, C., Covone, G., de Candia, A., De Filippis, G., De Rosa, G., Davini, S., Dionisi, C., Dolganov, G., Fiorillo, G., Franco, D., Giovanetti, G. K., Galbiati, C., Gulino, M., Ippolito, V., Kemmerich, N., Kochanek, I., Korga, G., Kuss, M., La Commara, M., La Delfa, L., Leyton, M., Li, X., Lissia, M., Mari, S. M., Martoff, C. J., Masone, V., Matteucci, G., Musico, P., Oleynikov, V., Pallavicini, M., Pandola, L., Razeto, A., Rescigno, M., Rode, J., Rossi, N., Sablone, D., Sanfilippo, S., Scapparone, E., Sosa, A., Suvorov, Y., Testera, G., Tricomi, A., Tuveri, M., Wada, M., Wang, H., Wang, Y., and Westerdale, S.

Subjects
Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract

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 ReD project is to investigate the directional sensitivity of argon-based TPCs via columnar recombination to nuclear recoils in the energy range of interest (20-200 keV$_{nr}$) for direct dark matter searches. The key novel feature of the ReD TPC is a readout system based on cryogenic Silicon Photomultipliers, which are employed and operated continuously for the first time in an argon TPC. Over the course of six months, the ReD TPC was commissioned and characterised under various operating conditions using $\gamma$-ray and neutron sources, demonstrating remarkable stability of the optical sensors and reproducibility of the results. The scintillation gain and ionisation amplification of the TPC were measured to be $g_1 = (0.194 \pm 0.013)$ PE/photon and $g_2 = (20.0 \pm 0.9)$ PE/electron, respectively. The ratio of the ionisation to scintillation signals (S2/S1), instrumental for the positive identification of a candidate directional signal induced by WIMPs, has been investigated for both nuclear and electron recoils. At a drift field of 183 V/cm, an S2/S1 dispersion of 12% was measured for nuclear recoils of approximately 60-90 keV$_{nr}$, as compared to 18% for electron recoils depositing 60 keV of energy. The detector performance reported here meets the requirements needed to achieve the principal scientific goals of the ReD experiment in the search for a directional effect due to columnar recombination. A phenomenological parameterisation of the recombination probability in LAr is presented and employed for modeling the dependence of scintillation quenching and charge yield on the drift field for electron recoils between 50-500 keV and fields up to 1000 V/cm., Comment: 19 pages, 19 figures, prepared for submission to EPJ C

Published
2021
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11. Separating $^{39}$Ar from $^{40}$Ar by cryogenic distillation with Aria for dark matter searches

Author

DarkSide Collaboration, Agnes, P., Albergo, S., Albuquerque, I. F. M., Alexander, T., Alici, A., Alton, A. K., Amaudruz, P., Arba, M., Arpaia, P., Arcelli, S., Ave, M., Avetissov, I. Ch., Avetisov, R. I., Azzolini, O., Back, H. O., Balmforth, Z., Barbarian, V., Olmedo, A. Barrado, Barrillon, P., Basco, A., Batignani, G., Bondar, A., Bonivento, W. M., Borisova, E., Bottino, B., Boulay, M. G., Buccino, G., Bussino, S., Busto, J., Buzulutskov, A., Cadeddu, M., Cadoni, M., Caminata, A., Canesi, E. V., Canci, N., Cappello, G., Caravati, M., C, M., Cargioli, N., Carlini, M., Carnesecchi, F., Castello, P., Castellani, A., Catalanotti, S., Cataudella, V., Cavalcante, P., Cavuoti, S., Cebrian, S., Ruiz, J. M. Cela, Celano, B., Chashin, S., Chepurnov, A., Cical, C., Cifarelli, L., Cintas, D., Coccetti, F., Cocco, V., Colocci, M., Vilda, E. Conde, Consiglio, L., Copello, S., Corning, J., Covone, G., Czudak, P., D'Aniello, M., D'Auria, S., Rolo, M. D. Da Rocha, Dadoun, O., Daniel, M., Davini, S., De Candia, A., De Cecco, S., De Falco, A., De Filippis, G., De Gruttola, D., De Guido, G., De Rosa, G., Della Valle, M., Dellacasa, G., De Pasquale, S., Derbin, A. V., Devoto, A., Di Noto, L., Di Eusanio, F., Dionisi, C., Di Stefano, P., Dolganov, G., Dongiovanni, D., Dordei, F., Downing, M., Erjavec, T., Falciano, S., Farenzena, S., Diaz, M. Fernandez, Filip, C., Fiorillo, G., Franceschi, A., Franco, D., Frolov, E., Funicello, N., Gabriele, F., Galbiati, C., Garbini, M., Abia, P. Garcia, Gendotti, A., Ghiano, C., Giampaolo, R. A., Giganti, C., Giorgi, M. A., Giovanetti, G. K., Gligan, M. L., Casanueva, V. Goicoechea, Gola, A., Goretti, A. M., Diaz, R. Graciani, Grigoriev, G. Y., Grobov, A., Gromov, M., Guan, M., Guerzoni, M., Guetti, M., Gulino, M., Guo, C., Hackett, B. R., Hallin, A., Haranczyk, M., Hill, S., Horikawa, S., Hubaut, F., Hugues, T., Hungerford, E. V., Ianni, An., Ippolito, V., James, C. C., Jillings, C., Kachru, P., Kemp, A. A., Kendziora, C. L., Keppel, G., Khomyakov, A. V., Kim, S., Kish, A., Kochanek, I., Kondo, K., Korga, G., Kubankin, A., Kugathasan, R., Kuss, M., Kuźniak, M., La Commara, M., La Delfa, L., La Grasta, D., Lai, M., Lami, N., Langrock, S., Leyton, M., Li, X., Lidey, L., Lippi, F., Lissia, M., Longo, G., Maccioni, N., Machulin, I. N., Mapelli, L., Marasciulli, A., Margotti, A., Mari, S. M., Maricic, J., Marinelli, M., Mart, M., Rojas, A. D. Martinez, Martini, A., Martoff, C. J., Mascia, M., Masetto, M., Masoni, A., Mazzi, A., McDonald, A. B., Mclaughlin, J., Messina, A., Meyers, P. D., Miletic, T., Milincic, R., Miola, R., Moggi, A., Moharana, A., Moioli, S., Monroe, J., Morisi, S., Morrocchi, M., Mozhevitina, E. N., Mr, T., Muratova, V. N., Murenu, A., Muscas, C., Musenich, L., Musico, P., Nania, R., Napolitano, T., Agasson, A. Navrer, Nessi, M., Nikulin, I., Nowak, J., Oleinik, A., Oleynikov, V., Pagani, L., Pallavicini, M., Palmas, S., Pandola, L., Pantic, E., Paoloni, E., Paternoster, G., Pegoraro, P. A., Pellegrini, L. A., Pellegrino, C., Pelczar, K., Perotti, F., Pesudo, V., Picciau, E., Pietropaolo, F., Pinna, T., Pocar, A., Podda, P., Poehlmann, D. M., Pordes, S., Poudel, S. S., Pralavorio, P., Price, D., Raffaelli, F., Ragusa, F., Ramirez, A., Razeti, M., Razeto, A., Renshaw, A. L., Rescia, S., Rescigno, M., Resnati, F., Retiere, F., Rignanese, L. P., Ripoli, C., Rivetti, A., Rode, J., Romero, L., Rossi, M., Rubbia, A., Rucaj, M., Sabiu, G. M., Salatino, P., Samoylov, O., S, E., Sandford, E., Sanfilippo, S., Sangiorgio, V. A., Santacroce, V., Santone, D., Santorelli, R., Santucci, A., Savarese, C., Scapparone, E., Schlitzer, B., Scioli, G., Semenov, D. A., Shaw, B., Shchagin, A., Sheshukov, A., Simeone, M., Skensved, P., Skorokhvatov, M. D., Smirnov, O., Smith, B., Sokolov, A., Stefanizzi, R., Steri, A., Stracka, S., Strickland, V., Stringer, M., Sulis, S., Suvorov, Y., Szelc, A. M., Zsücs-Balázs, J. Z., Tartaglia, R., Testera, G., Thorpe, T. N., Tonazzo, A., Torres-Lara, S., Tosti, S., Tricomi, A., Tuveri, M., Unzhakov, E. V., Usai, G., John, T. Vallivilayil, Vescovi, S., Viant, T., Viel, S., Vishneva, A., Vogelaar, R. B., Wada, M., Wang, H., Wang, Y., Westerdale, S., Wheadon, R. J., Williams, L., Wojcik, Ma. M., Wojcik, Ma., Xiao, X., Yang, C., Zani, A., Zenobio, F., Zichichi, A., Zuzel, G., and Zykova, M. P.

Subjects
Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Abstract

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 at Carbosulcis S.p.A., Nuraxi-Figus (SU), Italy. Aria is one of the pillars of the argon dark-matter search experimental program, lead by the Global Argon Dark Matter Collaboration. Aria was designed to reduce the isotopic abundance of $^{39}$Ar, a $\beta$-emitter of cosmogenic origin, whose activity poses background and pile-up concerns in the detectors, in the argon used for the dark-matter searches, the so-called Underground Argon (UAr). In this paper, we discuss the requirements, design, construction, tests, and projected performance of the plant for the isotopic cryogenic distillation of argon. We also present the successful results of isotopic cryogenic distillation of nitrogen with a prototype plant, operating the column at total reflux.

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2021
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12. Sensitivity of future liquid argon dark matter search experiments to core-collapse supernova neutrinos

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Agnes, P., Albergo, S., Albuquerque, I. F. M., Alexander, T., Alici, A., Alton, A. K., Amaudruz, P., Arcelli, S., Ave, M., Avetissov, I. Ch., Avetisov, R. I., Azzolini, O., Back, H. O., Balmforth, Z., Barbarian, V., Olmedo, A. Barrado, Barrillon, P., Basco, A., Batignani, G., Bondar, A., Bonivento, W. M., Borisova, E., Bottino, B., Boulay, M. G., Buccino, G., Bussino, S., Busto, J., Buzulutskov, A., Cadeddu, M., Cadoni, M., Caminata, A., Canci, N., Cappello, G., Caravati, M., Cárdenas-Montes, M., Carlini, M., Carnesecchi, F., Castello, P., Catalanotti, S., Cataudella, V., Cavalcante, P., Cavuoti, S., Cebrian, S., Ruiz, J. M. Cela, Celano, B., Chashin, S., Chepurnov, A., Chyhyrynets, E, Cicalò, C., Cifarelli, L., Cintas, D., Coccetti, F., Cocco, V., Colocci, M., Vilda, E. Conde, Consiglio, L., Copello, S., Corning, J., Covone, G., Czudak, P., D'Auria, S., Rolo, M. D. Da Rocha, Dadoun, O., Daniel, M., Davini, S., De Candia, A., De Cecco, S., De Falco, A., De Filippis, G., De Gruttola, D., De Guido, G., De Rosa, G., Della Valle, M., Dellacasa, G., De Pasquale, S., Derbin, A. V., Devoto, A., Di Noto, L., Dionisi, C., Di Stefano, P., Dolganov, G., Dordei, F., Doria, L., Downing, M., Erjavec, T., Diaz, M. Fernandez, Fiorillo, G., Franceschi, A., Franco, D., Frolov, E., Funicello, N., Gabriele, F., Galbiati, C., Garbini, M., Abia, P. Garcia, Gendotti, A., Ghiano, C., Giampaolo, R. A., Giganti, C., Giorgi, M. A., Giovanetti, G. K., Casanueva, V. Goicoechea, Gola, A., Diaz, R. Graciani, Grigoriev, G. Y., Grobov, A., Gromov, M., Guan, M., Guerzoni, M., Gulino, M., Guo, C., Hackett, B. R., Hallin, A., Haranczyk, M., Hill, S., Horikawa, S., Hubaut, F., Hugues, T., Hungerford, E. V., Ianni, An., Ippolito, V., James, C. C., Jillings, C., Kachru, P., Kemp, A. A., Kendziora, C. L., Keppel, G., Khomyakov, A. V., Kim, S., Kish, A., Kochanek, I., Kondo, K., Korga, G., Kubankin, A., Kugathasan, R., Kuss, M., Kuźniak, M., La Commara, M., Lai, M., Langrock, S., Leyton, M., Li, X., Lidey, L., Lissia, M., Longo, G., Machulin, I. N., Mapelli, L., Marasciulli, A., Margotti, A., Mari, S. M., Maricic, J., Martínez, M., Rojas, A. D. Martinez, Martoff, C. J., Masoni, A., Mazzi, A., McDonald, A. B., Mclaughlin, J., Messina, A., Meyers, P. D., Miletic, T., Milincic, R., Moggi, A., Moharana, A., Moioli, S., Monroe, J., Morisi, S., Morrocchi, M., Mozhevitina, E. N., Mróz, T., Muratova, V. N., Muscas, C., Musenich, L., Musico, P., Nania, R., Napolitano, T., Agasson, A. Navrer, Nessi, M., Nikulin, I., Nowak, J., Oleinik, A., Oleynikov, V., Pagani, L., Pallavicini, M., Pandola, L., Pantic, E., Paoloni, E., Paternoster, G., Pegoraro, P. A., Pelczar, K., Pellegrini, L. A., Pellegrino, C., Perotti, F., Pesudo, V., Picciau, E., Pietropaolo, F., Pira, C., Pocar, A., Poehlmann, D. M., Pordes, S., Poudel, S. S., Pralavorio, P., Price, D., Raffaelli, F., Ragusa, F., Ramirez, A., Razeti, M., Razeto, A., Renshaw, A. L., Rescia, S., Rescigno, M., Resnati, F., Retiere, F., Rignanese, L. P., Ripoli, C., Rivetti, A., Rode, J., Romero, L., Rossi, M., Rubbia, A., Salatino, P., Samoylov, O., García, E. Sánchez, Sandford, E., Sanfilippo, S., Santone, D., Santorelli, R., Savarese, C., Scapparone, E., Schlitzer, B., Scioli, G., Semenov, D. A., Shaw, B., Shchagin, A., Sheshukov, A., Simeone, M., Skensved, P., Skorokhvatov, M. D., Smirnov, O., Smith, B., Sokolov, A., Steri, A., Stracka, S., Strickland, V., Stringer, M., Sulis, S., Suvorov, Y., Szelc, A. M., Tartaglia, R., Testera, G., Thorpe, T. N., Tonazzo, A., Torres-Lara, S., Tricomi, A., Unzhakov, E. V., Usai, G., John, T. Vallivilayil, Viant, T., Viel, S., Vishneva, A., Vogelaar, R. B., Wada, M., Wang, H., Wang, Y., Westerdale, S., Wheadon, R. J., Williams, L., Wojcik, Ma. M., Wojcik, Ma., Xiao, X., Yang, C., Ye, Z., Zani, A., Zichichi, A., Zuzel, G., and Zykova, M. P.

Subjects
Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract

Future liquid-argon DarkSide-20k and ARGO detectors, designed for direct dark matter search, will be sensitive also to core-collapse supernova neutrinos, via coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering. This interaction channel is flavor-insensitive with a high-cross section, enabling for a high-statistics neutrino detection with target masses of $\sim$50~t and $\sim$360~t for DarkSide-20k and ARGO, respectively. Thanks to the low-energy threshold of $\sim$0.5~keV$_{nr}$ achievable by exploiting the ionization channel, DarkSide-20k and ARGO have the potential to discover supernova bursts throughout our galaxy and up to the Small Magellanic Cloud, respectively, assuming a 11-M$_{\odot}$ progenitor star. We report also on the sensitivity to the neutronization burst, whose electron neutrino flux is suppressed by oscillations when detected via charged current and elastic scattering. Finally, the accuracies in the reconstruction of the average and total neutrino energy in the different phases of the supernova burst, as well as its time profile, are also discussed, taking into account the expected background and the detector response., Comment: 21 pages, 8 figures

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2020
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13. SiPM-matrix readout of two-phase argon detectors using electroluminescence in the visible and near infrared range

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The DarkSide collaboration, Aalseth, C. E., Abdelhakim, S., Agnes, P., Ajaj, R., Albuquerque, I. F. M., Alexander, T., Alici, A., Alton, A. K., Amaudruz, P., Ameli, F., Anstey, J., Antonioli, P., Arba, M., Arcelli, S., Ardito, R., Arnquist, I. J., Arpaia, P., Asner, D. M., Asunskis, A., Ave, M., Back, H. O., Barbaryan, V., Olmedo, A. Barrado, Batignani, G., Bisogni, M. G., Bocci, V., Bondar, A., Bonfini, G., Bonivento, W., Borisova, E., Bottino, B., Boulay, M. G., Bunker, R., Bussino, S., Buzulutskov, A., Cadeddu, M., Cadoni, M., Caminata, A., Canci, N., Candela, A., Cantini, C., Caravati, M., Cariello, M., Carnesecchi, F., Castellani, A., Castello, P., Cavalcante, P., Cavazza, D., Cavuoti, S., Cebrian, S., Ruiz, J. M. Cela, Celano, B., Cereseto, R., Chashin, S., Cheng, W., Chepurnov, A., Cicalò, C., Cifarelli, L., Citterio, M., Coccetti, F., Cocco, V., Colocci, M., Vilda, E. Conde, Consiglio, L., Cossio, F., Covone, G., Crivelli, P., D'Antone, I., D'Incecco, M., Rolo, M. D. Da Rocha, Dadoun, O., Daniel, M., Davini, S., De Cecco, S., De Deo, M., De Falco, A., De Gruttola, D., De Guido, G., De Rosa, G., Dellacasa, G., Demontis, P., De Pasquale, S., Derbin, A. V., Devoto, A., Di Eusanio, F., Di Noto, L., Di Pietro, G., Di Stefano, P., Dionisi, C., Dolganov, G., Dordei, F., Downing, M., Edalatfar, F., Empl, A., Diaz, M. Fernandez, Filip, C., Fiorillo, G., Fomenko, K., Franceschi, A., Franco, D., Frolov, E., Froudakis, G. E., Funicello, N., Gabriele, F., Gabrieli, A., Galbiati, C., Garbini, M., Abia, P. Garcia, Fora, D. Gascón, Gendotti, A., Ghiano, C., Ghisi, A., Giampa, P., Giampaolo, R. A., Giganti, C., Giorgi, M. A., Giovanetti, G. K., Gligan, M. L., Gorchakov, O., Grab, M., Diaz, R. Graciani, Grassi, M., Grate, J. W., Grobov, A., Gromov, M., Guan, M., Guerra, M. B. B., Guerzoni, M., Gulino, M., Haaland, R. K., Hackett, B. R., Hallin, A., Haranczyk, M., Harrop, B., Hoppe, E. W., Horikawa, S., Hosseini, B., Hubaut, F., Humble, P., Hungerford, E. V., Ianni, An., Ilyasov, A., Ippolito, V., Jillings, C., Keeter, K., Kendziora, C. L., Kochanek, I., Kondo, K., Kopp, G., Korablev, D., Korga, G., Kubankin, A., Kugathasan, R., Kuss, M., La Commara, M., La Delfa, L., Lai, M., Lebois, M., Lehnert, B., Levashko, N., Li, X., Liqiang, Q., Lissia, M., Lodi, G. U., Longo, G., Lussana, R., Luzzi, L., Machado, A. A., Machulin, I. N., Mandarano, A., Manecki, S., Mapelli, L., Margotti, A., Mari, S. M., Mariani, M., Maricic, J., Marinelli, M., Marras, D., Martínez, M., Rojas, A. D. Martinez, Mascia, M., Mason, J., Masoni, A., McDonald, A. B., Messina, A., Miletic, T., Milincic, R., Moggi, A., Moioli, S., Monroe, J., Morrocchi, M., Mroz, T., Mu, W., Muratova, V. N., Murphy, S., Muscas, C., Musico, P., Nania, R., Napolitano, T., Agasson, A. Navrer, Nessi, M., Nikulin, I., Nosov, V., Nowak, J. A., Oleinik, A., Oleynikov, V., Orsini, M., Ortica, F., Pagani, L., Pallavicini, M., Palmas, S., Pandola, L., Pantic, E., Paoloni, E., Pazzona, F., Peeters, S., Pegoraro, P. A., Pelczar, K., Pellegrini, L. A., Pellegrino, C., Pelliccia, N., Perotti, F., Pesudo, V., Picciau, E., Pietropaolo, F., Pocar, A., Pollmann, T. R., Portaluppi, D., Poudel, S. S., Pralavorio, P., Price, D., Radics, B., Raffaelli, F., Ragusa, F., Razeti, M., Regenfus, C., Renshaw, A. L., Rescia, S., Rescigno, M., Retiere, F., Rignanese, L. P., Ripoli, C., Rivetti, A., Rode, J., Romani, A., Romero, L., Rossi, N., Rubbia, A., Sala, P., Salatino, P., Samoylov, O., García, E. Sánchez, Sandford, E., Sanfilippo, S., Sant, M., Santone, D., Santorelli, R., Savarese, C., Scapparone, E., Schlitzer, B., Scioli, G., Segreto, E., Seifert, A., Semenov, D. A., Shchagin, A., Sheshukov, A., Siddhanta, S., Simeone, M., Singh, P. N., Skensved, P., Skorokhvatov, M. D., Smirnov, O., Sobrero, G., Sokolov, A., Sotnikov, A., Stainforth, R., Steri, A., Stracka, S., Strickland, V., Suffritti, G. B., Sulis, S., Suvorov, Y., Szelc, A. M., Tartaglia, R., Testera, G., Thorpe, T., Tonazzo, A., Tosi, A., Tuveri, M., Unzhakov, E. V., Usai, G., Vacca, A., Vázquez-Jáuregui, E., Viant, T., Viel, S., Villa, F., Vishneva, A., Vogelaar, R. B., Wahl, J., Walding, J. J., Wang, H., Wang, Y., Westerdale, S., Wheadon, R. J., Williams, R., Wilson, J., Wojcik, Ma. M., Wojcik, Ma., Wu, S., Xiao, X., Yang, C., Ye, Z., Zuffa, M., and Zuzel, G.

Subjects
Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract

Proportional electroluminescence (EL) in noble gases is used in two-phase detectors for dark matter searches to record (in the gas phase) the ionization signal induced by particle scattering in the liquid phase. The "standard" EL mechanism is considered to be due to noble gas excimer emission in the vacuum ultraviolet (VUV). In addition, there are two alternative mechanisms, producing light in the visible and near infrared (NIR) ranges. The first is due to bremsstrahlung of electrons scattered on neutral atoms ("neutral bremsstrahlung", NBrS). The second, responsible for electron avalanche scintillation in the NIR at higher electric fields, is due to transitions between excited atomic states. In this work, we have for the first time demonstrated two alternative techniques of the optical readout of two-phase argon detectors, in the visible and NIR range, using a silicon photomultiplier matrix and electroluminescence due to either neutral bremsstrahlung or avalanche scintillation. The amplitude yield and position resolution were measured for these readout techniques, which allowed to assess the detection threshold for electron and nuclear recoils in two-phase argon detectors for dark matter searches. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first practical application of the NBrS effect in detection science., Comment: 26 pages, 22 figures, 3 tables

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2020
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14. Design and construction of a new detector to measure ultra-low radioactive-isotope contamination of argon

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The DarkSide Collaboration, Aalseth, C. E., Abdelhakim, S., Acerbi, F., Agnes, P., Ajaj, R., Albuquerque, I. F. M., Alexander, T., Alici, A., Alton, A. K., Amaudruz, P., Ameli, F., Anstey, J., Antonioli, P., Arba, M., Arcelli, S., Ardito, R., Arnquist, I. J., Arpaia, P., Asner, D. M., Asunskis, A., Ave, M., Back, H. O., Olmedo, A. Barrado, Batignani, G., Bisogni, M. G., Bocci, V., Bondar, A., Bonfini, G., Bonivento, W., Borisova, E., Bottino, B., Boulay, M. G., Bunker, R., Bussino, S., Buzulutskov, A., Cadeddu, M., Cadoni, M., Caminata, A., Canci, N., Candela, A., Cantini, C., Caravati, M., Cariello, M., Carnesecchi, F., Carpinelli, M., Castellani, A., Castello, P., Catalanotti, S., Cataudella, V., Cavalcante, P., Cavazza, D., Cavuoti, S., Cebrian, S., Ruiz, J. M. Cela, Celano, B., Cereseto, R., Cheng, W., Chepurnov, A., Cicalò, C., Cifarelli, L., Citterio, M., Cocco, A. G., Cocco, V., Colocci, M., Consiglio, L., Cossio, F., Covone, G., Crivelli, P., D'Antone, I., D'Incecco, M., D'Urso, D., Rolo, M. D. Da Rocha, Dadoun, O., Daniel, M., Davini, S., De Candia, A., De Cecco, S., De Deo, M., De Falco, A., De Filippis, G., De Gruttola, D., De Guido, G., De Rosa, G., Dellacasa, G., Demontis, P., DePaquale, S., Derbin, A. V., Devoto, A., Di Eusanio, F., Di Noto, L., Di Pietro, G., Di Stefano, P., Dionisi, C., Dolganov, G., Dordei, F., Downing, M., Edalatfar, F., Empl, A., Diaz, M. Fernandez, Ferri, A., Filip, C., Fiorillo, G., Fomenko, K., Franceschi, A., Franco, D., Froudakis, G. E., Gabriele, F., Gabrieli, A., Galbiati, C., Abia, P. Garcia, Fora, D. Gascón, Gendotti, A., Ghiano, C., Ghisi, A., Giagu, S., Giampa, P., Giampaolo, R. A., Giganti, C., Giorgi, M. A., Giovanetti, G. K., Gligan, M. L., Gola, A., Gorchakov, O., Grab, M., Diaz, R. Graciani, Granato, F., Grassi, M., Grate, J. W., Grigoriev, G. Y., Grobov, A., Gromov, M., Guan, M., Guerra, M. B. B., Guerzoni, M., Gulino, M., Haaland, R. K., Hackett, B. R., Hallin, A., Harrop, B., Hoppe, E. W., Horikawa, S., Hosseini, B., Hubaut, F., Humble, P., Hungerford, E. V., Ianni, An., Ilyasov, A., Ippolito, V., Jillings, C., Keeter, K., Kendziora, C. L., Kim, S., Kochanek, I., Kondo, K., Kopp, G., Korablev, D., Korga, G., Kubankin, A., Kugathasan, R., Kuss, M., Kuźniak, M., La Commara, M., La Delfa, L., Lai, M., Langrock, S., Lebois, M., Lehnert, B., Levashko, N., Li, X., Liqiang, Q., Lissia, M., Lodi, G. U., Longo, G., Manzano, R. López, Lussana, R., Luzzi, L., Machado, A. A., Machulin, I. N., Mandarano, A., Mapelli, L., Marcante, M., Margotti, A., Mari, S. M., Mariani, M., Maricic, J., Marinelli, M., Marras, D., Martínez, M., Morales, J. J. Martínez, Rojas, A. D. Martinez, Martoff, C. J., Mascia, M., Mason, J., Masoni, A., Mazzi, A., McDonald, A. B., Messina, A., Meyers, P. D., Miletic, T., Milincic, R., Moggi, A., Moioli, S., Monroe, J., Morrocchi, M., Mroz, T., Mu, W., Muratova, V. N., Murphy, S., Muscas, C., Musico, P., Nania, R., Napolitano, T., Agasson, A. Navrer, Nessi, M., Nikulin, I., Oleinik, A., Oleynikov, V., Orsini, M., Ortica, F., Pagani, L., Pallavicini, M., Palmas, S., Pandola, L., Pantic, E., Paoloni, E., Paternoster, G., Pavletcov, V., Pazzona, F., Peeters, S., Pegoraro, P. A., Pelczar, K., Pellegrini, L. A., Pellegrino, C., Pelliccia, N., Perotti, F., Pesudo, V., Picciau, E., Piemonte, C., Pietropaolo, F., Pocar, A., Pollman, T., Portaluppi, D., Poudel, S. S., Pralavorio, P., Price, D., Radics, B., Raffaelli, F., Ragusa, F., Razeti, M., Razeto, A., Regazzoni, V., Regenfus, C., Renshaw, A. L., Rescia, S., Rescigno, M., Retiere, F., Rignanese, L. P., Rivetti, A., Romani, A., Romero, L., Rossi, N., Rubbia, A., Sablone, D., Sala, P., Salatino, P., Samoylov, O., García, E. Sánchez, Sanfilippo, S., Sant, M., Santone, D., Santorelli, R., Savarese, C., Scapparone, E., Schlitzer, B., Scioli, G., Segreto, E., Seifert, A., Semenov, D. A., Shchagin, A., Sheshukov, A., Siddhanta, S., Simeone, M., Singh, P. N., Skensved, P., Skorokhvatov, M. D., Smirnov, O., Sobrero, G., Sokolov, A., Sotnikov, A., Stainforth, R., Steri, A., Stracka, S., Strickland, V., Suffritti, G. B., Sulis, S., Suvorov, Y., Szelc, A. M., Tartaglia, R., Testera, G., Thorpe, T., Tonazzo, A., Tosi, A., Tuveri, M., Unzhakov, E. V., Usai, G., Vacca, A., Vázquez-Jáuregui, E., Verducci, M., Viant, T., Viel, S., Villa, F., Vishneva, A., Vogelaar, R. B., Wada, M., Wahl, J., Walding, J. J., Wang, H., Wang, Y., Westerdale, S., Wheadon, R. J., Williams, R., Wilson, J., Wojcik, Marcin, Wojcik, Mariusz, Wu, S., Xiao, X., Yang, C., Ye, Z., Zuffa, M., and Zuzel, G.

Subjects
Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract

Large liquid argon detectors offer one of the best avenues for the detection of galactic weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) via their scattering on atomic nuclei. The liquid argon target allows exquisite discrimination between nuclear and electron recoil signals via pulse-shape discrimination of the scintillation signals. Atmospheric argon (AAr), however, has a naturally occurring radioactive isotope, $^{39}$Ar, a $\beta$ emitter of cosmogenic origin. For large detectors, the atmospheric $^{39}$Ar activity poses pile-up concerns. The use of argon extracted from underground wells, deprived of $^{39}$Ar, is key to the physics potential of these experiments. The DarkSide-20k dark matter search experiment will operate a dual-phase time projection chamber with 50 tonnes of radio-pure underground argon (UAr), that was shown to be depleted of $^{39}$Ar with respect to AAr by a factor larger than 1400. Assessing the $^{39}$Ar content of the UAr during extraction is crucial for the success of DarkSide-20k, as well as for future experiments of the Global Argon Dark Matter Collaboration (GADMC). This will be carried out by the DArT in ArDM experiment, a small chamber made with extremely radio-pure materials that will be placed at the centre of the ArDM detector, in the Canfranc Underground Laboratory (LSC) in Spain. The ArDM LAr volume acts as an active veto for background radioactivity, mostly $\gamma$-rays from the ArDM detector materials and the surrounding rock. This article describes the DArT in ArDM project, including the chamber design and construction, and reviews the background required to achieve the expected performance of the detector., Comment: 13 pages, 8 figures. Corresponding author: E. S\'anchez Garc\'ia

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2020
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15. Study of cosmogenic activation above ground for the DarkSide-20k experiment

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Elersich, A., Agnes, P., Ahmad, I., Albergo, S., Albuquerque, I.F.M., Alexander, T., Alton, A.K., Amaudruz, P., Atzori Corona, M., Ave, M., Avetisov, I.Ch., Azzolini, O., Back, H.O., Balmforth, Z., Barrado-Olmedo, A., Barrillon, P., Basco, A., Batignani, G., Bocci, V., Bonivento, W.M., Bottino, B., Boulay, M.G., Busto, J., Cadeddu, M., Caminata, A., Canci, N., Capra, A., Caprioli, S., Caravati, M., Cargioli, N., Carlini, M., Castello, P., Cavalcante, P., Cavuoti, S., Cebrian, S., Cela Ruiz, J.M., Chashin, S., Chepurnov, A., Chyhyrynets, E., Cifarelli, L., Cintas, D., Citterio, M., Cleveland, B., Cocco, V., Colaiuda, D., Conde Vilda, E., Consiglio, L., Copello, S., Covone, G., Czubak, M., D’Aniello, M., D’Auria, S., Da Rocha Rolo, M.D., Davini, S., De Cecco, S., De Gruttola, D., De Pasquale, S., De Rosa, G., Dellacasa, G., Derbin, A.V., Devoto, A., Di Capua, F., Di Noto, L., Di Stefano, P., Dolganov, G., Dordei, F., Ellingwood, E., Erjavec, T., Fernandez Diaz, M., Fiorillo, G., Franchini, P., Franco, D., Funicello, N., Gabriele, F., Gahan, D., Galbiati, C., Gallina, G., Gallus, G., Garbini, M., Garcia Abia, P., Gendotti, A., Ghiano, C., Giganti, C., Giovanetti, G.K., Goicoechea Casanueva, V., Gola, A., Grauso, G., Grilli di Cortona, G., Grobov, A., Gromov, M., Guan, M., Guerzoni, M., Gulino, M., Guo, C., Hackett, B.R., Hallin, A.L., Hamer, A., Haranczyk, M., Hessel, T., Hill, S., Horikawa, S., Hubaut, F., Hucker, J., Hugues, T., Ianni, An., Ippolito, V., Jillings, C., Jois, S., Kachru, P., Kemp, A.A., Kendziora, C.L., Kimura, M., Kochanek, I., Kondo, K., Korga, G., Koulosousas, S., Kubankin, A., Kuss, M., Kuzniak, M., La Commara, M., Lai, M., Le Guirriec, E., Leason, E., Leoni, A., Lidey, L., Lissia, M., Luzzi, L., Lychagina, O., Macfadyen, O., Machulin, I.N., Manecki, S., Manthos, I., Mapelli, L., Margotti, A., Mari, S.M., Mariani, C., Maricic, J., Marini, A., Martínez, M., Martoff, C.J., Matteucci, G., Mavrokoridis, K., McDonald, A.B., Messina, A., Milincic, R., Mitra, A., Moharana, A., Monroe, J., Moretti, E., Morrocchi, M., Mróz, T., Muratova, V.N., Muscas, C., Musico, P., Nania, R., Nessi, M., Nieradka, G., Nikolopoulos, K., Nowak, J., Olchansky, K., Oleinik, A., Oleynikov, V., Organtini, P., Ortiz de Solórzano, A., Pagani, L., Pallavicini, M., Pandola, L., Pantic, E., Paoloni, E., Paternoster, G., Pegoraro, P.A., Pelczar, K., Pellegrino, C., Pesudo, V., Piacentini, S., Pietrofaccia, L., Pino, N., Pocar, A., Poehlmann, D.M., Pordes, S., Pralavorio, P., Price, D., Ragusa, F., Ramachers, Y., Razeti, M., Renshaw, A.L., Rescigno, M., Retiere, F., Rignanese, L.P., Ripoli, C., Rivetti, A., Roberts, A., Roberts, C., Rode, J., Rogers, G., Romero, L., Rossi, M., Rubbia, A., Sabia, M.A., Salomone, P., Sandford, E., Sanfilippo, S., Santone, D., Santorelli, R., Savarese, C., Scapparone, E., Schillaci, G., Schuckman II, F.G., Scioli, G., Simeone, M., Skensved, P., Skorokhvatov, M.D., Smirnov, O., Smirnova, T., Smith, B., Spadoni, F., Spangenberg, M., Stefanizzi, R., Steri, A., Stornelli, V., Stracka, S., Stringer, M., Sulis, S., Sung, A., Suvorov, Y., Szelc, A.M., Tartaglia, R., Taylor, A., Taylor, J., Tedesco, S., Testera, G., Thieme, K., Thorpe, T.N., Tonazzo, A., Tricomi, A., Unzhakov, E.V., Vallivilayil John, T., Van Uffelen, M., Viant, T., Viel, S., Vogelaar, R.B., Vossebeld, J., Wada, M., Walczak, M.B., Wang, H., Wang, Y., Westerdale, S., Williams, L., Wingerter-Seez, I., Wojaczynski, R., Wojcik, Ma.M., Wright, T., Xie, Y., Yang, C., Zabihi, A., Zakhary, P., Zani, A., Zichichi, A., Zuzel, G., and Zykova, M.P.

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2023
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16. Measurement of isotopic separation of argon with the prototype of the cryogenic distillation plant Aria for dark matter searches

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Aaron, E., Agnes, P., Ahmad, I., Albergo, S., Albuquerque, I. F. M., Alexander, T., Alton, A. K., Amaudruz, P., Atzori Corona, M., Ave, M., Avetisov, I. Ch., Azzolini, O., Back, H. O., Balmforth, Z., Barrado, A., Barrillon, P., Basco, A., Batignani, G., Bocci, V., Bonivento, W. M., Bottino, B., Boulay, M. G., Busto, J., Cadeddu, M., Caminata, A., Canci, N., Capra, A., Caprioli, S., Caravati, M., Cargioli, N., Carlini, M., Castello, P., Cavalcante, P., Cavuoti, S., Cebrian, S., Cela Ruiz, J. M., Chashin, S., Chepurnov, A., Chyhyrynets, E., Cifarelli, L., Cintas, D., Citterio, M., Cleveland, B., Cocco, V., Conde Vilda, E., Consiglio, L., Copello, S., Covone, G., Czubak, M., D’Aniello, M., D’Auria, S., Da Rocha Rolo, M. D., Davini, S., De Cecco, S., De Guido, G., De Gruttola, D., De Pasquale, S., De Rosa, G., Dellacasa, G., Derbin, A. V., Devoto, A., Di Capua, F., Di Noto, L., Di Stefano, P., Dolganov, G., Dordei, F., Ellingwood, E., Erjavec, T., Farenzena, S., Fernandez Diaz, M., Fiorillo, G., Franchini, P., Franco, D., Funicello, N., Gabriele, F., Gahan, D., Galbiati, C., Gallina, G., Gallus, G., Garbini, M., Garcia Abia, P., Gendotti, A., Ghiano, C., Giganti, C., Giovanetti, G. K., Goicoechea Casanueva, V., Gola, A., Grauso, G., Grilli di Cortona, G., Grobov, A., Gromov, M., Guan, M., Guerzoni, M., Gulino, M., Guo, C., Hackett, B. R., Hallin, A. L., Hamer, A., Haranczyk, M., Hessel, T., Hill, S., Horikawa, S., Hubaut, F., Hucker, J., Hugues, T., Ianni, An., Ippolito, V., Jillings, C., Jois, S., Kachru, P., Kemp, A. A., Kendziora, C. L., Kimura, M., Kochanek, I., Kondo, K., Korga, G., Koulosousas, S., Kubankin, A., Kuss, M., Kuźniak, M., La Commara, M., Lai, M., Lami, N., Le Guirriec, E., Leason, E., Leoni, A., Lidey, L., Lippi, F., Lissia, M., Luzzi, L., Lychagina, O., Maccioni, N., Macfadyen, O., Machulin, I. N., Manecki, S., Manthos, I., Mapelli, L., Margotti, A., Mari, S. M., Mariani, C., Maricic, J., Marini, A., Martínez, M., Martoff, C. J., Mascia, M., Masoni, A., Matteucci, G., Mavrokoridis, K., Maxia, C., McDonald, A. B., Messina, A., Milincic, R., Mitra, A., Moharana, A., Moioli, S., Monroe, J., Moretti, E., Morrocchi, M., Mróz, T., Muratova, V. N., Muscas, C., Musico, P., Nania, R., Nessi, M., Nikolopoulos, K., Nowak, J., Olchansky, K., Oleinik, A., Oleynikov, V., Organtini, P., de Solórzano, A. Ortiz, Pagani, L., Pallavicini, M., Pandola, L., Pantic, E., Paoloni, E., Paternoster, G., Pegoraro, P. A., Pelczar, K., Pellegrini, L. A., Pellegrino, C., Pesudo, V., Piacentini, S., Pietrofaccia, L., Pino, N., Pocar, A., Poehlmann, D. M., Pordes, S., Pralavorio, P., Price, D., Ragusa, F., Ramachers, Y., Razeti, M., Renshaw, A. L., Rescigno, M., Retiere, F., Rignanese, L. P., Ripoli, C., Rivetti, A., Roberts, A., Roberts, C., Rode, J., Rogers, G., Romero, L., Rossi, M., Rubbia, A., Sabia, M. A., Sabiu, G. M., Salomone, P., Sandford, E., Sanfilippo, S., Santone, D., Santorelli, R., Savarese, C., Scapparone, E., Schillaci, G., Schukman, F., Scioli, G., Simeone, M., Skensved, P., Skorokhvatov, M. D., Smirnov, O., Smirnova, T., Smith, B., Spadoni, F., Spangenberg, M., Stefanizzi, R., Steri, A., Stornelli, V., Stracka, S., Stringer, M., Sulis, S., Sung, A., Suvorov, Y., Szelc, A. M., Tartaglia, R., Taylor, A., Taylor, J., Tedesco, S., Testera, G., Thieme, K., Thorpe, T. N., Tonazzo, A., Tricomi, A., Unzhakov, E. V., Vallivilayil John, T., Van Uffelen, M., Viant, T., Viel, S., Vogelaar, R. B., Vossebeld, J., Wada, M., Walczak, M. B., Wang, H., Wang, Y., Westerdale, S., Williams, L., Wingerter-Seez, I., Wojaczyński, R., Wojcik, Ma. M., Wright, T., Xie, Y., Yang, C., Zabihi, A., Zakhary, P., Zani, A., Zichichi, A., Zuzel, G., and Zykova, M. P.

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2023
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18. Directionality for nuclear recoils in a LAr TPC

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Pino N., Agnes P., Ahmad I., Albergo S., Albuquerque I., Ave M., Bonivento W. M., Bottino B., Cadeddu M., Caminata A., Canci N., Cappello G., Caravati M., Catalanotti S., Cataudella V., Cesarano R., Cicalò C., Covone G., de Candia A., De Filippis G., De Rosa G., Dell’Aquila D., Davini S., Dionisi C., Dolganov G., Fiorillo G., Franco D., Galbiati C., Gulino M., Ippolito V., Kemmerich N., Kimura M., Kuss M., La Commara M., Li X., Mari S. M., Martoff C. J., Matteucci G., Oleynikov V., Pallavicini M., Pandola L., Rescigno M., Rode J., Sanfilippo S., Sosa A., Suvorov Y., Testera G., Tricomi A., Wada M., Wang H., Wang Y., and Zakhary P.

Subjects
Physics, QC1-999
Abstract

In the direct searches for Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) as Dark Matter candidates, the sensitivity of the detector to the incom- ing particle direction could provide a smoking gun signature for an interesting event. The SCENE collaboration firstly suggested the possible directional de- pendence of a dual-phase argon Time Projection Chamber through the columnar recombination effect. The Recoil Directionality project (ReD) within the Global Argon Dark Matter Collaboration aims to characterize the light and charge re- sponse of a liquid Argon dual-phase TPC to neutron-induced nuclear recoils to probe for the hint by SCENE. In this work, the directional sensitivity of the de- tector in the energy range of interest for WIMPs (20-100 keV) is investigated with a data-driven analysis involving a Machine Learning algorithm.

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2023
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19. SiPM-matrix readout of two-phase argon detectors using electroluminescence in the visible and near infrared range

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Aalseth, C. E., Abdelhakim, S., Agnes, P., Ajaj, R., Albuquerque, I. F. M., Alexander, T., Alici, A., Alton, A. K., Amaudruz, P., Ameli, F., Anstey, J., Antonioli, P., Arba, M., Arcelli, S., Ardito, R., Arnquist, I. J., Arpaia, P., Asner, D. M., Asunskis, A., Ave, M., Back, H. O., Barbaryan, V., Barrado Olmedo, A., Batignani, G., Bisogni, M. G., Bocci, V., Bondar, A., Bonfini, G., Bonivento, W., Borisova, E., Bottino, B., Boulay, M. G., Bunker, R., Bussino, S., Buzulutskov, A., Cadeddu, M., Cadoni, M., Caminata, A., Canci, N., Candela, A., Cantini, C., Caravati, M., Cariello, M., Carnesecchi, F., Castellani, A., Castello, P., Cavalcante, P., Cavazza, D., Cavuoti, S., Cebrian, S., Cela Ruiz, J. M., Celano, B., Cereseto, R., Chashin, S., Cheng, W., Chepurnov, A., Cicalò, C., Cifarelli, L., Citterio, M., Coccetti, F., Cocco, V., Colocci, M., Conde Vilda, E., Consiglio, L., Cossio, F., Covone, G., Crivelli, P., D’Antone, I., D’Incecco, M., Da Rocha Rolo, M. D., Dadoun, O., Daniel, M., Davini, S., De Cecco, S., De Deo, M., De Falco, A., De Gruttola, D., De Guido, G., De Rosa, G., Dellacasa, G., Demontis, P., De Pasquale, S., Derbin, A. V., Devoto, A., Eusanio, F. Di, Di Noto, L., Di Pietro, G., Di Stefano, P., Dionisi, C., Dolganov, G., Dordei, F., Downing, M., Edalatfar, F., Empl, A., Fernandez Diaz, M., Filip, C., Fiorillo, G., Fomenko, K., Franceschi, A., Franco, D., Frolov, E., Froudakis, G. E., Funicello, N., Gabriele, F., Gabrieli, A., Galbiati, C., Garbini, M., Garcia Abia, P., Gascón Fora, D., Gendotti, A., Ghiano, C., Ghisi, A., Giampa, P., Giampaolo, R. A., Giganti, C., Giorgi, M. A., Giovanetti, G. K., Gligan, M. L., Gorchakov, O., Grab, M., Graciani Diaz, R., Grassi, M., Grate, J. W., Grobov, A., Gromov, M., Guan, M., Guerra, M. B. B., Guerzoni, M., Gulino, M., Haaland, R. K., Hackett, B. R., Hallin, A., Haranczyk, M., Harrop, B., Hoppe, E. W., Horikawa, S., Hosseini, B., Hubaut, F., Humble, P., Hungerford, E. V., Ianni, An., Ilyasov, A., Ippolito, V., Jillings, C., Keeter, K., Kendziora, C. L., Kochanek, I., Kondo, K., Kopp, G., Korablev, D., Korga, G., Kubankin, A., Kugathasan, R., Kuss, M., La Commara, M., La Delfa, L., Lai, M., Lebois, M., Lehnert, B., Levashko, N., Li, X., Liqiang, Q., Lissia, M., Lodi, G. U., Longo, G., Lussana, R., Luzzi, L., Machado, A. A., Machulin, I. N., Mandarano, A., Manecki, S., Mapelli, L., Margotti, A., Mari, S. M., Mariani, M., Maricic, J., Marinelli, M., Marras, D., Martínez, M., Martinez Rojas, A. D., Mascia, M., Mason, J., Masoni, A., McDonald, A. B., Messina, A., Miletic, T., Milincic, R., Moggi, A., Moioli, S., Monroe, J., Morrocchi, M., Mroz, T., Mu, W., Muratova, V. N., Murphy, S., Muscas, C., Musico, P., Nania, R., Napolitano, T., Navrer Agasson, A., Nessi, M., Nikulin, I., Nosov, V., Nowak, J. A., Oleinik, A., Oleynikov, V., Orsini, M., Ortica, F., Pagani, L., Pallavicini, M., Palmas, S., Pandola, L., Pantic, E., Paoloni, E., Pazzona, F., Peeters, S., Pegoraro, P. A., Pelczar, K., Pellegrini, L. A., Pellegrino, C., Pelliccia, N., Perotti, F., Pesudo, V., Picciau, E., Pietropaolo, F., Pocar, A., Pollmann, T. R., Portaluppi, D., Poudel, S. S., Pralavorio, P., Price, D., Radics, B., Raffaelli, F., Ragusa, F., Razeti, M., Regenfus, C., Renshaw, A. L., Rescia, S., Rescigno, M., Retiere, F., Rignanese, L. P., Ripoli, C., Rivetti, A., Rode, J., Romani, A., Romero, L., Rossi, N., Rubbia, A., Sala, P., Salatino, P., Samoylov, O., Sánchez García, E., Sandford, E., Sanfilippo, S., Sant, M., Santone, D., Santorelli, R., Savarese, C., Scapparone, E., Schlitzer, B., Scioli, G., Segreto, E., Seifert, A., Semenov, D. A., Shchagin, A., Sheshukov, A., Siddhanta, S., Simeone, M., Singh, P. N., Skensved, P., Skorokhvatov, M. D., Smirnov, O., Sobrero, G., Sokolov, A., Sotnikov, A., Stainforth, R., Steri, A., Stracka, S., Strickland, V., Suffritti, G. B., Sulis, S., Suvorov, Y., Szelc, A. M., Tartaglia, R., Testera, G., Thorpe, T., Tonazzo, A., Tosi, A., Tuveri, M., Unzhakov, E. V., Usai, G., Vacca, A., Vázquez-Jáuregui, E., Viant, T., Viel, S., Villa, F., Vishneva, A., Vogelaar, R. B., Wahl, J., Walding, J. J., Wang, H., Wang, Y., Westerdale, S., Wheadon, R. J., Williams, R., Wilson, J., Wojcik, Ma. M., Wojcik, Ma., Wu, S., Xiao, X., Yang, C., Ye, Z., Zuffa, M., and Zuzel, G.

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2021
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20. The European Physical Journal C

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Aaron, E., Agnes, P., Ahmad, I., Albergo, S., Albuquerque, I. F. M., Alexander, T., Alton, A. K., Amaudruz, P., Atzori Corona, M., Ave, M., Avetisov, I. Ch., Azzolini, O., Back, H. O., Balmforth, Z., Barrado, A., Barrillon, P., Basco, A., Batignani, G., Bocci, V., Bonivento, W. M., Bottino, B., Boulay, M. G., Busto, J., Cadeddu, M., Caminata, A., Canci, N., Capra, A., Caprioli, S., Caravati, M., Cargioli, N., Carlini, M., Castello, P., Cavalcante, P., Cavuoti, S., Cebrian, S., Cela Ruiz, J. M., Chashin, S., Chepurnov, A., Chyhyrynets, E., Cifarelli, L., Cintas, D., Citterio, M., Cleveland, B., Cocco, V., Conde Vilda, E., Consiglio, L., Copello, S., Covone, G., Czubak, M., D’Aniello, M., D’Auria, S., Da Rocha Rolo, M. D., Davini, S., De Cecco, S., De Guido, G., De Gruttola, D., De Pasquale, S., De Rosa, G., Dellacasa, G., Derbin, A. V., Devoto, A., Di Capua, F., Di Noto, L., Di Stefano, P., Dolganov, G., Dordei, F., Ellingwood, E., Erjavec, T., Farenzena, S., Fernandez Diaz, M., Fiorillo, G., Franchini, P., Franco, D., Funicello, N., Gabriele, F., Gahan, D., Galbiati, C., Gallina, G., Gallus, G., Garbini, M., Garcia Abia, P., Gendotti, A., Ghiano, C., Giganti, C., Giovanetti, G. K., Goicoechea Casanueva, V., Gola, A., Grauso, G., Grilli di Cortona, G., Grobov, A., Gromov, M., Guan, M., Guerzoni, M., Gulino, M., Guo, C., Hackett, B. R., Hallin, A. L., Hamer, A., Haranczyk, M., Hessel, T., Hill, S., Horikawa, S., Hubaut, F., Hucker, J., Hugues, T., Ianni, An., Ippolito, V., Jillings, C., Jois, S., Kachru, P., Kemp, A. A., Kendziora, C. L., Kimura, M., Kochanek, I., Kondo, K., Korga, G., Koulosousas, S., Kubankin, A., Kuss, M., Kuźniak, M., La Commara, M., Lai, M., Lami, N., Le Guirriec, E., Leason, E., Leoni, A., Lidey, L., Lippi, F., Lissia, M., Luzzi, L., Lychagina, O., Maccioni, N., Macfadyen, O., Machulin, I. N., Manecki, S., Manthos, I., Mapelli, L., Margotti, A., Mari, S. M., Mariani, C., Maricic, J., Marini, A., Martínez, M., Martoff, C. J., Mascia, M., Masoni, A., Matteucci, G., Mavrokoridis, K., Maxia, C., Mcdonald, A. B., Messina, A., Milincic, R., Mitra, A., Moharana, A., Moioli, S., Monroe, J., Moretti, E., Morrocchi, M., Mróz, T., Muratova, V. N., Muscas, C., Musico, P., Nania, R., Nessi, M., Nikolopoulos, K., Nowak, J., Olchansky, K., Oleinik, A., Oleynikov, V., Organtini, P., Ortiz de Solórzano, A., Pagani, L., Pallavicini, M., Pandola, L., Pantic, E., Paoloni, E., Paternoster, G., Pegoraro, P. A., Pelczar, K., Pellegrini, L. A., Pellegrino, C., Pesudo, V., Piacentini, S., Pietrofaccia, L., Pino, N., Pocar, A., Poehlmann, D. M., Pordes, S., Pralavorio, P., Price, D., Ragusa, F., Ramachers, Y., Razeti, M., Renshaw, A. L., Rescigno, M., Retiere, F., Rignanese, L. P., Ripoli, C., Rivetti, A., Roberts, A., Roberts, C., Rode, J., Rogers, G., Romero, L., Rossi, M., Rubbia, A., Sabia, M. A., Sabiu, G. M., Salomone, P., Sandford, E., Sanfilippo, S., Santone, D., Santorelli, R., Savarese, C., Scapparone, E., Schillaci, G., Schukman, F., Scioli, G., Simeone, M., Skensved, P., Skorokhvatov, M. D., Smirnov, O., Smirnova, T., Smith, B., Spadoni, F., Spangenberg, M., Stefanizzi, R., Steri, A., Stornelli, V., Stracka, S., Stringer, M., Sulis, S., Sung, A., Suvorov, Y., Szelc, A. M., Tartaglia, R., Taylor, A., Taylor, J., Tedesco, S., Testera, G., Thieme, K., Thorpe, T. N., Tonazzo, A., Tricomi, A., Unzhakov, E. V., Vallivilayil John, T., Van Uffelen, M., Viant, T., Viel, S., Vogelaar, R. B., Vossebeld, J., Wada, M., Walczak, M. B., Wang, H., Wang, Y., Westerdale, S., Williams, L., Wingerter-Seez, I., Wojaczyński, R., Wojcik, Ma. M., Wright, T., Xie, Y., Yang, C., Zabihi, A., Zakhary, P., Zani, A., Zichichi, A., Zuzel, G., Zykova &amp, M. P., DarkSide-20k, Collaboration, Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille (CPPM), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité), Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Énergies (LPNHE (UMR_7585)), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), DarkSide-20k, Aaron, E., Agnes, P., Ahmad, I., Albergo, S., Albuquerque, I. F. M., Alexander, T., Alton, A. K., Amaudruz, P., Atzori Corona, M., Ave, M., Avetisov, I. C., Azzolini, O., Back, H. O., Balmforth, Z., Barrado, A., Barrillon, P., Basco, A., Batignani, G., Bocci, V., Bonivento, W. M., Bottino, B., Boulay, M. G., Busto, J., Cadeddu, M., Caminata, A., Canci, N., Capra, A., Caprioli, S., Caravati, M., Cargioli, N., Carlini, M., Castello, P., Cavalcante, P., Cavuoti, S., Cebrian, S., Cela Ruiz, J. M., Chashin, S., Chepurnov, A., Chyhyrynets, E., Cifarelli, L., Cintas, D., Citterio, M., Cleveland, B., Cocco, V., Conde Vilda, E., Consiglio, L., Copello, S., Covone, G., Czubak, M., D'Aniello, M., D'Auria, S., Da Rocha Rolo, M. D., Davini, S., De Cecco, S., De Guido, G., De Gruttola, D., De Pasquale, S., De Rosa, G., Dellacasa, G., Derbin, A. V., Devoto, A., Di Capua, F., Di Noto, L., Di Stefano, P., Dolganov, G., Dordei, F., Ellingwood, E., Erjavec, T., Farenzena, S., Fernandez Diaz, M., Fiorillo, G., Franchini, P., Franco, D., Funicello, N., Gabriele, F., Gahan, D., Galbiati, C., Gallina, G., Gallus, G., Garbini, M., Garcia Abia, P., Gendotti, A., Ghiano, C., Giganti, C., Giovanetti, G. K., Goicoechea Casanueva, V., Gola, A., Grauso, G., Grilli di Cortona, G., Grobov, A., Gromov, M., Guan, M., Guerzoni, M., Gulino, M., Guo, C., Hackett, B. R., Hallin, A. L., Hamer, A., Haranczyk, M., Hessel, T., Hill, S., Horikawa, S., Hubaut, F., Hucker, J., Hugues, T., Ianni, A., Ippolito, V., Jillings, C., Jois, S., Kachru, P., Kemp, A. A., Kendziora, C. L., Kimura, M., Kochanek, I., Kondo, K., Korga, G., Koulosousas, S., Kubankin, A., Kuss, M., Kuzniak, M., La Commara, M., Lai, M., Lami, N., Le Guirriec, E., Leason, E., Leoni, A., Lidey, L., Lippi, F., Lissia, M., Luzzi, L., Lychagina, O., Maccioni, N., Macfadyen, O., Machulin, I. N., Manecki, S., Manthos, I., Mapelli, L., Margotti, A., Mari, S. M., Mariani, C., Maricic, J., Marini, A., Martinez, M., Martoff, C. J., Mascia, M., Masoni, A., Matteucci, G., Mavrokoridis, K., Maxia, C., Mcdonald, A. B., Messina, A., Milincic, R., Mitra, A., Moharana, A., Moioli, S., Monroe, J., Moretti, E., Morrocchi, M., Mroz, T., Muratova, V. N., Muscas, C., Musico, P., Nania, R., Nessi, M., Nikolopoulos, K., Nowak, J., Olchansky, K., Oleinik, A., Oleynikov, V., Organtini, P., de Solorzano, A. O., Pagani, L., Pallavicini, M., Pandola, L., Pantic, E., Paoloni, E., Paternoster, G., Pegoraro, P. A., Pelczar, K., Pellegrini, L. A., Pellegrino, C., Pesudo, V., Piacentini, S., Pietrofaccia, L., Pino, N., Pocar, A., Poehlmann, D. M., Pordes, S., Pralavorio, P., Price, D., Ragusa, F., Ramachers, Y., Razeti, M., Renshaw, A. L., Rescigno, M., Retiere, F., Rignanese, L. P., Ripoli, C., Rivetti, A., Roberts, A., Roberts, C., Rode, J., Rogers, G., Romero, L., Rossi, M., Rubbia, A., Sabia, M. A., Sabiu, G. M., Salomone, P., Sandford, E., Sanfilippo, S., Santone, D., Santorelli, R., Savarese, C., Scapparone, E., Schillaci, G., Schukman, F., Scioli, G., Simeone, M., Skensved, P., Skorokhvatov, M. D., Smirnov, O., Smirnova, T., Smith, B., Spadoni, F., Spangenberg, M., Stefanizzi, R., Steri, A., Stornelli, V., Stracka, S., Stringer, M., Sulis, S., Sung, A., Suvorov, Y., Szelc, A. M., Tartaglia, R., Taylor, A., Taylor, J., Tedesco, S., Testera, G., Thieme, K., Thorpe, T. N., Tonazzo, A., Tricomi, A., Unzhakov, E. V., Vallivilayil John, T., Van Uffelen, M., Viant, T., Viel, S., Vogelaar, R. B., Vossebeld, J., Wada, M., Walczak, M. B., Wang, H., Wang, Y., Westerdale, S., Williams, L., Wingerter-Seez, I., Wojaczynski, R., Wojcik, M. M., Wright, T., Xie, Y., Yang, C., Zabihi, A., Zakhary, P., Zani, A., Zichichi, A., Zuzel, G., and Zykova, M. P.

Subjects
Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, WIMP, dark matter, DarkSide-20k, stability, buildings, programming, nitrogen, cryogenic distillation, Gran Sasso, astro-ph.IM, cryogenics, quality, Dark Matter, Argon, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, experimental results
Abstract

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 Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Italy. Aria is designed to purify the argon, extracted from underground wells in Colorado, USA, and used as the DarkSide-20k target material, to detector-grade quality. In this paper, we report the first measurement of argon isotopic separation by distillation with the 26 m tall Aria prototype. We discuss the measurement of the operating parameters of the column and the observation of the simultaneous separation of the three stable argon isotopes: $${}^{36}\hbox {Ar}$$ 36 Ar , $${}^{38}\textrm{Ar}$$ 38 Ar , and $${}^{40}\textrm{Ar}$$ 40 Ar . We also provide a detailed comparison of the experimental results with commercial process simulation software. This measurement of isotopic separation of argon is a significant achievement for the project, building on the success of the initial demonstration of isotopic separation of nitrogen using the same equipment in 2019.

Published
2023

21. The Recoil Directionality (ReD) Experiment

Author

Sanfilippo S., Agnes P., Albergo S., Albuquerque I. F. M., Arba M., Ave M. P., Boiano A., Bonivento W., Bottino B., Bussino S., Cadeddu M., Caminata A., Canci N., Cappello G., Caravati M., Cariello M., Castellano S., Catalanotti S., Cataudella V., Cereseto R., Cesarano R., Cicalo C., Covone G., De Candia A., De Filippis G., De Rosa G., Davini S., Dionisi C., Dolganov G., Fiorillo G., Franco D., Galbiati C., Giovanetti G. K., Gulino M., Ippolito V., Kemmerich N., Kochanek I., Korga G., Kuss M., La Commara M., La Delfa L., Leyton M., Li X., Lissia M., Mari S. M., Martoff C. J., Masone V., Matteucci G., Musico P., Oleynikov V., Pallavicini M., Pandola L., Razeto A., Rescigno M., Rode J., Rossi N., Sablone D., Scapparone E., Sosa A., Suvorov Y., Testera G., Tricomi A., Tuveri M., Wada M., Wang H., Wang Y., Sanfilippo, S, Agnes, P, Albergo, S, Albuquerque, I, Arba, M, Ave, M, Boiano, A, Bonivento, W M, Bottino, B, Bussino, S, Cadeddu, M, Caminata, A, Canci, N, Cappello, G, Caravati, M, Cariello, M, Castellano, S, Catalanotti, S, Cataudella, V, Cereseto, R, Cesarano, R, Cicalò, C, Covone, G, de Candia, A, De Filippis, G, De Rosa, G, Davini, S, Dionisi, C, Dolganov, G, Fiorillo, G, Franco, D, Giovanetti, G K, Galbiati, C, Gulino, M, Ippolito, V, Kemmerich, N, Kochanek, I, Korga, G, Kuss, M, La Commara, M, La Delfa, L, Leyton, M, Li, X, Lissia, M, Mari, S M, Martoff, C J, Masone, V, Matteucci, G, Musico, P, Oleynikov, V, Pallavicini, M, Pandola, L, Razeto, A, Rescigno, M, Rode, J, Rossi, N, Sablone, D, Scapparone, E, Sosa, A, Suvorov, Y, Testera, G, Tricomi, A, Tuveri, M, Wada, M, Wang, H, Wang, Y, AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité), Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Énergies (LPNHE (UMR_7585)), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Sanfilippo, S., Agnes, P., Albergo, S., Albuquerque, I. F. M., Arba, M., Ave, M. P., Boiano, A., Bonivento, W., Bottino, B., Bussino, S., Cadeddu, M., Caminata, A., Canci, N., Cappello, G., Caravati, M., Cariello, M., Castellano, S., Catalanotti, S., Cataudella, V., Cereseto, R., Cesarano, R., Cicalo, C., Covone, G., De Candia, A., De Filippis, G., De Rosa, G., Davini, S., Dionisi, C., Dolganov, G., Fiorillo, G., Franco, D., Galbiati, C., Giovanetti, G. K., Gulino, M., Ippolito, V., Kemmerich, N., Kochanek, I., Korga, G., Kuss, M., La Commara, M., La Delfa, L., Leyton, M., Li, X., Lissia, M., Mari, S. M., Martoff, C. J., Masone, V., Matteucci, G., Musico, P., Oleynikov, V., Pallavicini, M., Pandola, L., Razeto, A., Rescigno, M., Rode, J., Rossi, N., Sablone, D., Scapparone, E., Sosa, A., Suvorov, Y., Testera, G., Tricomi, A., Tuveri, M., Wada, M., Wang, H., and Wang, Y.

Subjects
History, irradiation, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, WIMP, WIMP nucleus: scattering, nucleus, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, dark matter: detector, [PHYS.NEXP]Physics [physics]/Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex], sensitivity, dark matter, Computer Science Applications, Education, time projection chamber, n: irradiation, recoil, argon, beam, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], activity report, detector: design, performance, nucleus: recoil
Abstract

International audience; Directional sensitivity to nuclear recoils would provide a smoking gun for a possible discovery of dark matter in the form of WIMPs (Weakly Interacting Massive Particles). A hint of directional dependence of the response of a dual-phase argon Time Projection Chamber (TPC) was found in the SCENE experiment. Given the potential importance of such a capability in the framework of dark matter searches, a new dedicated experiment, ReD (Recoil Directionality), was designed by the Global Argon Dark Matter Collaboration, in order to scrutinize this hint. Prior to the irradiation with a neutron beam, the ReD TPC underwent a long campaign of characterization and optimization: some selected results are presented in this contribution.

Published
2022

22. The Recoil Directionality (ReD) Experiment

Author

Sanfilippo, S, primary, Agnes, P, additional, Albergo, S, additional, Albuquerque, I, additional, Arba, M, additional, Ave, M, additional, Boiano, A, additional, Bonivento, W M, additional, Bottino, B, additional, Bussino, S, additional, Cadeddu, M, additional, Caminata, A, additional, Canci, N, additional, Cappello, G, additional, Caravati, M, additional, Cariello, M, additional, Castellano, S, additional, Catalanotti, S, additional, Cataudella, V, additional, Cereseto, R, additional, Cesarano, R, additional, Cicalò, C, additional, Covone, G, additional, de Candia, A, additional, De Filippis, G, additional, De Rosa, G, additional, Davini, S, additional, Dionisi, C, additional, Dolganov, G, additional, Fiorillo, G, additional, Franco, D, additional, Giovanetti, G K, additional, Galbiati, C, additional, Gulino, M, additional, Ippolito, V, additional, Kemmerich, N, additional, Kochanek, I, additional, Korga, G, additional, Kuss, M, additional, La Commara, M, additional, La Delfa, L, additional, Leyton, M, additional, Li, X, additional, Lissia, M, additional, Mari, S M, additional, Martoff, C J, additional, Masone, V, additional, Matteucci, G, additional, Musico, P, additional, Oleynikov, V, additional, Pallavicini, M, additional, Pandola, L, additional, Razeto, A, additional, Rescigno, M, additional, Rode, J, additional, Rossi, N, additional, Sablone, D, additional, Scapparone, E, additional, Sosa, A, additional, Suvorov, Y, additional, Testera, G, additional, Tricomi, A, additional, Tuveri, M, additional, Wada, M, additional, Wang, H, additional, and Wang, Y, additional

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2022
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23. Separating $^{39}$Ar from $^{40}$Ar by cryogenic distillation with Aria for dark matter searches

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Agnes, P., Albergo, S., Albuquerque, I.F.M., Alexander, T., Alici, A., Alton, A.K., Amaudruz, P., Arba, M., Arpaia, P., Arcelli, S., Ave, M., Avetissov, I.Ch., Avetisov, R.I., Azzolini, O., Back, H.O., Balmforth, Z., Barbarian, V., Olmedo, A. Barrado, Barrillon, P., Basco, A., Batignani, G., Bondar, A., Bonivento, W.M., Borisova, E., Bottino, B., Boulay, M.G., Buccino, G., Bussino, S., Busto, J., Buzulutskov, A., Cadeddu, M., Cadoni, M., Caminata, A., Canesi, E.V., Canci, N., Cappello, G., Caravati, M., Cárdenas-Montes, M., Cargioli, N., Carlini, M., Carnesecchi, F., Castello, P., Castellani, A., Catalanotti, S., Cataudella, V., Cavalcante, P., Cavuoti, S., Cebrian, S., Cela Ruiz, J.M., Celano, B., Chashin, S., Chepurnov, A., Cicalò, C., Cifarelli, L., Cintas, D., Coccetti, F., Cocco, V., Colocci, M., Vilda, E. Conde, Consiglio, L., Copello, S., Corning, J., Covone, G., Czudak, P., d'Aniello, M., d'Auria, S., da Rocha Rolo, M., Dadoun, O., Daniel, M., Davini, S., de Candia, A., De Cecco, S., De Falco, A., de Filippis, G., De Gruttola, D., De Guido, G., De Rosa, G., Della Valle, M., Dellacasa, G., De Pasquale, S., Derbin, A.V., Devoto, A., Di Noto, L., Di Eusanio, F., Dionisi, C., Di Stefano, P., Dolganov, G., Dongiovanni, D., Dordei, F., Downing, M., Erjavec, T., Falciano, S., Farenzena, S., Diaz, M. Fernandez, Filip, C., Fiorillo, G., Franceschi, A., Franco, D., Frolov, E., Funicello, N., Gabriele, F., Galbiati, C., Garbini, M., Abia, P. Garcia, Gendotti, A., Ghiano, C., Giampaolo, R.A., Giganti, C., Giorgi, M.A., Giovanetti, G.K., Gligan, M.L., Casanueva, V. Goicoechea, Gola, A., Goretti, A.M., Graciani Diaz, R., Grigoriev, G.Y., Grobov, A., Gromov, M., Guan, M., Guerzoni, M., Guetti, M., Gulino, M., Guo, C., Hackett, B.R., Hallin, A., Haranczyk, M., Hill, S., Horikawa, S., Hubaut, F., Hugues, T., Hungerford, E.V., Ianni, An., Ippolito, V., James, C.C., Jillings, C., Kachru, P., Kemp, A.A., Kendziora, C.L., Keppel, G., Khomyakov, A.V., Kim, S., Kish, A., Kochanek, I., Kondo, K., Korga, G., Kubankin, A., Kugathasan, R., Kuss, M., Kuźniak, M., La Commara, M., La Delfa, L., La Grasta, D., Lai, M., Lami, N., Langrock, S., Leyton, M., Li, X., Lidey, L., Lippi, F., Lissia, M., Longo, G., Maccioni, N., Machulin, I.N., Mapelli, L., Marasciulli, A., Margotti, A., Mari, S.M., Maricic, J., Marinelli, M., Martínez, M., Rojas, A.D. Martinez, Martini, A., Martoff, C.J., Mascia, M., Masetto, M., Masoni, A., Mazzi, A., Mcdonald, A.B., Mclaughlin, J., Messina, A., Meyers, P.D., Miletic, T., Milincic, R., Miola, R., Moggi, A., Moharana, A., Moioli, S., Monroe, J., Morisi, S., Morrocchi, M., Mozhevitina, E.N., Mr, T., Mróz, T., Muratova, V.N., Murenu, A., Muscas, C., Musenich, L., Musico, P., Nania, R., Napolitano, T., Navrer Agasson, A., Nessi, M., Nikulin, I., Nowak, J., Oleinik, A., Oleynikov, V., Pagani, L., Pallavicini, M., Palmas, S., Pandola, L., Pantic, E., Paoloni, E., Paternoster, G., Pegoraro, P.A., Pellegrini, L.A., Pellegrino, C., Pelczar, K., Perotti, F., Pesudo, V., Picciau, E., Pietropaolo, F., Pinna, T., Pocar, A., Podda, P., Poehlmann, D.M., Pordes, S., Poudel, S.S., Pralavorio, P., Price, D., Raffaelli, F., Ragusa, F., Ramirez, A., Razeti, M., Razeto, A., Renshaw, A.L., Rescia, S., Rescigno, M., Resnati, F., Retiere, F., Rignanese, L.P., Ripoli, C., Rivetti, A., Rode, J., Romero, L., Rossi, M., Rubbia, A., Rucaj, M., Sabiu, G.M., Salatino, P., Samoylov, O., Sánchez García, E., Sandford, E., Sanfilippo, S., Sangiorgio, V.A., Santacroce, V., Santone, D., Santorelli, R., Santucci, A., Savarese, C., Scapparone, E., Schlitzer, B., Scioli, G., Semenov, D.A., Shaw, B., Shchagin, A., Sheshukov, A., Simeone, M., Skensved, P., Skorokhvatov, M.D., Smirnov, O., Smith, B., Sokolov, A., Stefanizzi, R., Steri, A., Stracka, S., Strickland, V., Stringer, M., Sulis, S., Suvorov, Y., Szelc, A.M., Zsücs-Balázs, J.Z., Tartaglia, R., Testera, G., Thorpe, T.N., Tonazzo, A., Torres-Lara, S., Tosti, S., Tricomi, A., Tuveri, M., Unzhakov, E.V., Usai, G., John, T. Vallivilayil, Vescovi, S., Viant, T., Viel, S., Vishneva, A., Vogelaar, R.B., Wada, M., Wang, H., Wang, Y., Westerdale, S., Wheadon, R.J., Williams, L., Wojcik, Ma.M., Wojcik, Ma., Xiao, X., Yang, C., Zani, A., Zenobio, F., Zichichi, A., Zuzel, G., Zykova, M.P., Agnes P., Albergo S., Albuquerque I.F.M., Alexander T., Alici A., Alton A.K., Amaudruz P., Arba M., Arpaia P., Arcelli S., Ave M., Avetissov I.C., Avetisov R.I., Azzolini O., Back H.O., Balmforth Z., Barbarian V., Barrado Olmedo A., Barrillon P., Basco A., Batignani G., Bondar A., Bonivento W.M., Borisova E., Bottino B., Boulay M.G., Buccino G., Bussino S., Busto J., Buzulutskov A., Cadeddu M., Cadoni M., Caminata A., Canesi E.V., Canci N., Cappello G., Caravati M., Cardenas-Montes M., Cargioli N., Carlini M., Carnesecchi F., Castello P., Castellani A., Catalanotti S., Cataudella V., Cavalcante P., Cavuoti S., Cebrian S., Cela Ruiz J.M., Celano B., Chashin S., Chepurnov A., Cicalo C., Cifarelli L., Cintas D., Coccetti F., Cocco V., Colocci M., Conde Vilda E., Consiglio L., Copello S., Corning J., Covone G., Czudak P., D'Aniello M., D'Auria S., Da Rocha Rolo M.D., Dadoun O., Daniel M., Davini S., De Candia A., De Cecco S., De Falco A., De Filippis G., De Gruttola D., De Guido G., De Rosa G., Della Valle M., Dellacasa G., De Pasquale S., Derbin A.V., Devoto A., Di Noto L., Di Eusanio F., Dionisi C., Di Stefano P., Dolganov G., Dongiovanni D., Dordei F., Downing M., Erjavec T., Falciano S., Farenzena S., Fernandez Diaz M., Filip C., Fiorillo G., Franceschi A., Franco D., Frolov E., Funicello N., Gabriele F., Galbiati C., Garbini M., Garcia Abia P., Gendotti A., Ghiano C., Giampaolo R.A., Giganti C., Giorgi M.A., Giovanetti G.K., Gligan M.L., Goicoechea Casanueva V., Gola A., Goretti A.M., Graciani Diaz R., Grigoriev G.Y., Grobov A., Gromov M., Guan M., Guerzoni M., Guetti M., Gulino M., Guo C., Hackett B.R., Hallin A., Haranczyk M., Hill S., Horikawa S., Hubaut F., Hugues T., Hungerford E.V., Ianni A., Ippolito V., James C.C., Jillings C., Kachru P., Kemp A.A., Kendziora C.L., Keppel G., Khomyakov A.V., Kish A., Kochanek I., Kondo K., Korga G., Kubankin A., Kugathasan R., Kuss M., Kuzniak M., La Commara M., La Delfa L., La Grasta D., Lai M., Lami N., Langrock S., Leyton M., Li X., Lidey L., Lippi F., Lissia M., Longo G., Maccioni N., Machulin I.N., Mapelli L., Marasciulli A., Margotti A., Mari S.M., Maricic J., Marinelli M., Martinez M., Martinez Rojas A.D., Martini A., Mascia M., Masetto M., Masoni A., Mazzi A., McDonald A.B., Mclaughlin J., Messina A., Meyers P.D., Miletic T., Milincic R., Miola R., Moggi A., Moharana A., Moioli S., Monroe J., Morisi S., Morrocchi M., Mozhevitina E.N., Mroz T., Muratova V.N., Murenu A., Muscas C., Musenich L., Musico P., Nania R., Napolitano T., Navrer Agasson A., Nessi M., Nikulin I., Nowak J., Oleinik A., Oleynikov V., Pagani L., Pallavicini M., Palmas S., Pandola L., Pantic E., Paoloni E., Paternoster G., Pegoraro P.A., Pellegrini L.A., Pellegrino C., Pelczar K., Perotti F., Pesudo V., Picciau E., Pietropaolo F., Pinna T., Pocar A., Podda P., Poehlmann D.M., Pordes S., Poudel S.S., Pralavorio P., Price D., Raffaelli F., Ragusa F., Ramirez A., Razeti M., Razeto A., Renshaw A.L., Rescia S., Rescigno M., Resnati F., Retiere F., Rignanese L.P., Ripoli C., Rivetti A., Rode J., Romero L., Rossi M., Rubbia A., Rucaj M., Sabiu G.M., Salatino P., Samoylov O., Sanchez Garcia E., Sandford E., Sanfilippo S., Sangiorgio V.A., Santacroce V., Santone D., Santorelli R., Santucci A., Savarese C., Scapparone E., Schlitzer B., Scioli G., Semenov D.A., Shaw B., Shchagin A., Sheshukov A., Simeone M., Skensved P., Skorokhvatov M.D., Smirnov O., Smith B., Sokolov A., Stefanizzi R., Steri A., Stracka S., Strickland V., Stringer M., Sulis S., Suvorov Y., Szelc A.M., Szucs-Balazs J.Z., Tartaglia R., Testera G., Thorpe T.N., Tonazzo A., Torres-Lara S., Tosti S., Tricomi A., Tuveri M., Unzhakov E.V., Usai G., Vallivilayil John T., Vescovi S., Viant T., Viel S., Vishneva A., Vogelaar R.B., Wada M., Wang H., Wang Y., Westerdale S., Wheadon R.J., Williams L., M.Wojcik M., Wojcik M., Xiao X., Yang C., Zani A., Zenobio F., Zichichi A., Zuzel G., Zykova M.P., Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille (CPPM), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Énergies (LPNHE (UMR_7585)), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP), AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP), DarkSide-20k, Agnes, P., Albergo, S., Albuquerque, I. F. M., Alexander, T., Alici, A., Alton, A. K., Amaudruz, P., Arba, M., Arpaia, P., Arcelli, S., Ave, M., Avetissov, I. C., Avetisov, R. I., Azzolini, O., Back, H. O., Balmforth, Z., Barbarian, V., Barrado Olmedo, A., Barrillon, P., Basco, A., Batignani, G., Bondar, A., Bonivento, W. M., Borisova, E., Bottino, B., Boulay, M. G., Buccino, G., Bussino, S., Busto, J., Buzulutskov, A., Cadeddu, M., Cadoni, M., Caminata, A., Canesi, E. V., Canci, N., Cappello, G., Caravati, M., Cardenas-Montes, M., Cargioli, N., Carlini, M., Carnesecchi, F., Castello, P., Castellani, A., Catalanotti, S., Cataudella, V., Cavalcante, P., Cavuoti, S., Cebrian, S., Cela Ruiz, J. M., Celano, B., Chashin, S., Chepurnov, A., Cicalo, C., Cifarelli, L., Cintas, D., Coccetti, F., Cocco, V., Colocci, M., Conde Vilda, E., Consiglio, L., Copello, S., Corning, J., Covone, G., Czudak, P., D'Aniello, M., D'Auria, S., Da Rocha Rolo, M. D., Dadoun, O., Daniel, M., Davini, S., De Candia, A., De Cecco, S., De Falco, A., De Filippis, G., De Gruttola, D., De Guido, G., De Rosa, G., Della Valle, M., Dellacasa, G., De Pasquale, S., Derbin, A. V., Devoto, A., Di Noto, L., Di Eusanio, F., Dionisi, C., Di Stefano, P., Dolganov, G., Dongiovanni, D., Dordei, F., Downing, M., Erjavec, T., Falciano, S., Farenzena, S., Fernandez Diaz, M., Filip, C., Fiorillo, G., Franceschi, A., Franco, D., Frolov, E., Funicello, N., Gabriele, F., Galbiati, C., Garbini, M., Garcia Abia, P., Gendotti, A., Ghiano, C., Giampaolo, R. A., Giganti, C., Giorgi, M. A., Giovanetti, G. K., Gligan, M. L., Goicoechea Casanueva, V., Gola, A., Goretti, A. M., Graciani Diaz, R., Grigoriev, G. Y., Grobov, A., Gromov, M., Guan, M., Guerzoni, M., Guetti, M., Gulino, M., Guo, C., Hackett, B. R., Hallin, A., Haranczyk, M., Hill, S., Horikawa, S., Hubaut, F., Hugues, T., Hungerford, E. V., Ianni, A., Ippolito, V., James, C. C., Jillings, C., Kachru, P., Kemp, A. A., Kendziora, C. L., Keppel, G., Khomyakov, A. V., Kish, A., Kochanek, I., Kondo, K., Korga, G., Kubankin, A., Kugathasan, R., Kuss, M., Kuzniak, M., La Commara, M., La Delfa, L., La Grasta, D., Lai, M., Lami, N., Langrock, S., Leyton, M., Li, X., Lidey, L., Lippi, F., Lissia, M., Longo, G., Maccioni, N., Machulin, I. N., Mapelli, L., Marasciulli, A., Margotti, A., Mari, S. M., Maricic, J., Marinelli, M., Martinez, M., Martinez Rojas, A. D., Martini, A., Mascia, M., Masetto, M., Masoni, A., Mazzi, A., Mcdonald, A. B., Mclaughlin, J., Messina, A., Meyers, P. D., Miletic, T., Milincic, R., Miola, R., Moggi, A., Moharana, A., Moioli, S., Monroe, J., Morisi, S., Morrocchi, M., Mozhevitina, E. N., Mroz, T., Muratova, V. N., Murenu, A., Muscas, C., Musenich, L., Musico, P., Nania, R., Napolitano, T., Navrer Agasson, A., Nessi, M., Nikulin, I., Nowak, J., Oleinik, A., Oleynikov, V., Pagani, L., Pallavicini, M., Palmas, S., Pandola, L., Pantic, E., Paoloni, E., Paternoster, G., Pegoraro, P. A., Pellegrini, L. A., Pellegrino, C., Pelczar, K., Perotti, F., Pesudo, V., Picciau, E., Pietropaolo, F., Pinna, T., Pocar, A., Podda, P., Poehlmann, D. M., Pordes, S., Poudel, S. S., Pralavorio, P., Price, D., Raffaelli, F., Ragusa, F., Ramirez, A., Razeti, M., Razeto, A., Renshaw, A. L., Rescia, S., Rescigno, M., Resnati, F., Retiere, F., Rignanese, L. P., Ripoli, C., Rivetti, A., Rode, J., Romero, L., Rossi, M., Rubbia, A., Rucaj, M., Sabiu, G. M., Salatino, P., Samoylov, O., Sanchez Garcia, E., Sandford, E., Sanfilippo, S., Sangiorgio, V. A., Santacroce, V., Santone, D., Santorelli, R., Santucci, A., Savarese, C., Scapparone, E., Schlitzer, B., Scioli, G., Semenov, D. A., Shaw, B., Shchagin, A., Sheshukov, A., Simeone, M., Skensved, P., Skorokhvatov, M. D., Smirnov, O., Smith, B., Sokolov, A., Stefanizzi, R., Steri, A., Stracka, S., Strickland, V., Stringer, M., Sulis, S., Suvorov, Y., Szelc, A. M., Szucs-Balazs, J. Z., Tartaglia, R., Testera, G., Thorpe, T. N., Tonazzo, A., Torres-Lara, S., Tosti, S., Tricomi, A., Tuveri, M., Unzhakov, E. V., Usai, G., Vallivilayil John, T., Vescovi, S., Viant, T., Viel, S., Vishneva, A., Vogelaar, R. B., Wada, M., Wang, H., Wang, Y., Westerdale, S., Wheadon, R. J., Williams, L., M. Wojcik, M., Wojcik, M., Xiao, X., Yang, C., Zani, A., Zenobio, F., Zichichi, A., Zuzel, G., Zykova, M. P., Avetissov, I. Ch., Cárdenas-Montes, M., Cicalò, C., D’Aniello, M., D’Auria, S., Ianni, An., Kuźniak, M., Martínez, M., Mróz, T., Sánchez García, E., Wojcik, Ma. M., Wojcik, Ma., Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité), and ANR-18-IDEX-0001,Université de Paris,Université de Paris(2018)

Subjects
Astrophysics and Astronomy, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, FOS: Physical sciences, isotopic distillation argon cryogenic, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), dark matter: detector, fabrication, argon: nuclide, astro-ph.IM, dark-matter, DarkSide-20k, Argon, cryogenics, pile-up, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], Detectors and Experimental Techniques, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), physics.ins-det, performance
Abstract

Aria is a plant hosting a ${350}\,\hbox {m}$ cryogenic isotopic distillation column, the tallest ever built, which is being installed in a mine shaft at Carbosulcis S.p.A., Nuraxi-Figus (SU), Italy. Aria is one of the pillars of the argon dark-matter search experimental program, lead by the Global Argon Dark Matter Collaboration. It was designed to reduce the isotopic abundance of ${^{39}\hbox {Ar}}$ in argon extracted from underground sources, called Underground Argon (UAr), which is used for dark-matter searches. Indeed, ${^{39}\hbox {Ar}}$ is a $\beta $-emitter of cosmogenic origin, whose activity poses background and pile-up concerns in the detectors. In this paper, we discuss the requirements, design, construction, tests, and projected performance of the plant for the isotopic cryogenic distillation of argon. We also present the successful results of the isotopic cryogenic distillation of nitrogen with a prototype plant. 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 at Carbosulcis S.p.A., Nuraxi-Figus (SU), Italy. Aria is one of the pillars of the argon dark-matter search experimental program, lead by the Global Argon Dark Matter Collaboration. Aria was designed to reduce the isotopic abundance of $^{39}$Ar, a $\beta$-emitter of cosmogenic origin, whose activity poses background and pile-up concerns in the detectors, in the argon used for the dark-matter searches, the so-called Underground Argon (UAr). In this paper, we discuss the requirements, design, construction, tests, and projected performance of the plant for the isotopic cryogenic distillation of argon. We also present the successful results of isotopic cryogenic distillation of nitrogen with a prototype plant, operating the column at total reflux.

Published
2021

24. Sensitivity of future liquid argon dark matter search experiments to core-collapse supernova neutrinos

Author

DarkSide-20k Collaboration, Agnes, P., Albergo, S., Albuquerque, I. F. M., Alexander, T., Alici, A., Alton, A. K., Amaudruz, P., Arcelli, S., Ave, M., Avetissov, I. Ch., Giorgi, M. A., Giovanetti, G. K., Goicoechea Casanueva, V., Gola, A., Graciani Diaz, R., Grigoriev, G. Y., Grobov, A., Gromov, M., Guan, M., Guerzoni, M., Avetisov, R. I., Gulino, M., Guo, C., Hackett, B. R., Hallin, A., Haranczyk, M., Hill, S., Horikawa, S., Hubaut, F., Hugues, T., Hungerford, E. V., Azzolini, O., Ianni, An., Ippolito, V., James, C. C., Jillings, C., Kachru, P., Kemp, A. A., Kendziora, C. L., Keppel, G., Khomyakov, A. V., Kim, S., Back, H. O., Kish, A., Kochanek, I., Kondo, K., Korga, G., Kubankin, A., Kugathasan, R., Kuss, M., Kuźniak, M., La Commara, M., Lai, M., Balmforth, Z., Langrock, S., Leyton, M., Li, X., Lidey, L., Lissia, M., Longo, G., Machulin, I. N., Mapelli, L., Marasciulli, A., Margotti, A., Barbarian, V., Mari, S. M., Maricic, J., Martínez, M., Martinez Rojas, A. D., Martoff, C. J., Masoni, A., Mazzi, A., McDonald, A. B., Mclaughlin, J., Messina, A., Barrado Olmedo, A., Meyers, P. D., Miletic, T., Milincic, R., Moggi, A., Moharana, A., Moioli, S., Monroe, J., Morisi, S., Morrocchi, M., Mozhevitina, E. N., Barrillon, P., Mróz, T., Muratova, V. N., Muscas, C., Musenich, L., Musico, P., Nania, R., Napolitano, T., Navrer Agasson, A., Nessi, M., Nikulin, I., Basco, A., Nowak, J., Oleinik, A., Oleynikov, V., Pagani, L., Pallavicini, M., Pandola, L., Pantic, E., Paoloni, E., Paternoster, G., Pegoraro, P. A., Batignani, G., Pelczar, K., Pellegrini, L. A., Pellegrino, C., Perotti, F., Pesudo, V., Picciau, E., Pietropaolo, F., Pira, C., Pocar, A., Poehlmann, D. M., Bondar, A., Pordes, S., Poudel, S. S., Pralavorio, P., Price, D., Raffaelli, F., Ragusa, F., Ramirez, A., Razeti, M., Razeto, A., Renshaw, A. L., Bonivento, W. M., Rescia, S., Rescigno, M., Resnati, F., Retiere, F., Rignanese, L. P., Ripoli, C., Rivetti, A., Rode, J., Romero, L., ROSSI, Monia, Borisova, E., Rubbia, A., Salatino, P., Samoylov, O., Sánchez García, E., Sandford, E., Sanfilippo, S., Santone, D., Santorelli, R., Savarese, C., Scapparone, E., Bottino, B., Schlitzer, B., Scioli, G., Semenov, D. A., Shaw, B., Shchagin, A., Sheshukov, A., Simeone, M., Skensved, P., Skorokhvatov, M. D., Smirnov, O., Boulay, M. G., Smith, B., Sokolov, A., Steri, A., Stracka, S., Strickland, V., Stringer, M., Sulis, S., Suvorov, Y., Szelc, A. M., Tartaglia, R., Buccino, G., Testera, G., Thorpe, T. N., Tonazzo, A., Torres-Lara, S., Tricomi, A., Unzhakov, E. V., Usai, G., Vallivilayil John, T., Viant, T., Viel, S., Bussino, S., Vishneva, A., Vogelaar, R. B., Wada, M., Wang, H., Wang, Y., Westerdale, S., Wheadon, R. J., Williams, L., Wojcik, Ma. M., Wojcik, Ma., Busto, J., Xiao, X., Yang, C., Ye, Z., Zani, A., Zichichi, A., Zuzel, G., Zykova, M. P., Buzulutskov, A., Cadeddu, M., Cadoni, M., Caminata, A., Canci, N., Cappello, G., Caravati, M., Cárdenas-Montes, M., Carlini, M., Carnesecchi, F., Castello, P., Catalanotti, S., Cataudella, V., Cavalcante, P., CAVUOTI, STEFANO, Cebrian, S., Cela Ruiz, J. M., Celano, B., Chashin, S., Chepurnov, A., Chyhyrynets, E., Cicalò, C., Cifarelli, L., Cintas, D., Coccetti, F., Cocco, V., Colocci, M., Conde Vilda, E., Consiglio, L., Copello, S., Corning, J., Covone, G., Czudak, P., D'Auria, S., Da Rocha Rolo, M. D., Dadoun, O., Daniel, M., Davini, S., De Candia, A., De Cecco, S., De Falco, A., De Filippis, G., De Gruttola, D., De Guido, G., DE ROSA, GIORGIA, DELLA VALLE, Massimo, Dellacasa, G., De Pasquale, S., Derbin, A. V., Devoto, A., Di Noto, L., Dionisi, C., Di Stefano, P., Dolganov, G., Dordei, F., Doria, L., Downing, M., Erjavec, T., Fernandez Diaz, M., Fiorillo, G., Franceschi, A., Franco, D., Frolov, E., Funicello, N., Gabriele, F., Galbiati, C., Garbini, M., Garcia Abia, P., Gendotti, A., Ghiano, C., Giampaolo, R. A., Giganti, C., Agnes, P., Albergo, S., Albuquerque, I. F. M., Alexander, T., Alici, A., Alton, A. K., Amaudruz, P., Arcelli, S., Ave, M., Avetissov, I. Ch., Avetisov, R. I., Azzolini, O., Back, H. O., Balmforth, Z., Barbarian, V., Barrado Olmedo, A., Barrillon, P., Basco, A., Batignani, G., Bondar, A., Bonivento, W. M., Borisova, E., Bottino, B., Boulay, M. G., Buccino, G., Bussino, S., Busto, J., Buzulutskov, A., Cadeddu, M., Cadoni, M., Caminata, A., Canci, N., Cappello, G., Caravati, M., Cárdenas-Montes, M., Carlini, M., Carnesecchi, F., Castello, P., Catalanotti, S., Cataudella, V., Cavalcante, P., Cavuoti, S., Cebrian, S., Cela Ruiz, J. 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R., Hallin, A., Haranczyk, M., Hill, S., Horikawa, S., Hubaut, F., Hugues, T., Hungerford, E. V., Ianni, An., Ippolito, V., James, C. C., Jillings, C., Kachru, P., Kemp, A. A., Kendziora, C. L., Keppel, G., Khomyakov, A. V., Kim, S., Kish, A., Kochanek, I., Kondo, K., Korga, G., Kubankin, A., Kugathasan, R., Kuss, M., Kuźniak, M., La Commara, M., Lai, M., Langrock, S., Leyton, M., Li, X., Lidey, L., Lissia, M., Longo, G., Machulin, I. N., Mapelli, L., Marasciulli, A., Margotti, A., Mari, S. M., Maricic, J., Martínez, M., Martinez Rojas, A. D., Martoff, C. J., Masoni, A., Mazzi, A., Mcdonald, A. B., Mclaughlin, J., Messina, A., Meyers, P. D., Miletic, T., Milincic, R., Moggi, A., Moharana, A., Moioli, S., Monroe, J., Morisi, S., Morrocchi, M., Mozhevitina, E. N., Mróz, T., Muratova, V. N., Muscas, C., Musenich, L., Musico, P., Nania, R., Napolitano, T., Navrer Agasson, A., Nessi, M., Nikulin, I., Nowak, J., Oleinik, A., Oleynikov, V., Pagani, L., Pallavicini, M., Pandola, L., Pantic, E., Paoloni, E., Paternoster, G., Pegoraro, P. A., Pelczar, K., Pellegrini, L. A., Pellegrino, C., Perotti, F., Pesudo, V., Picciau, E., Pietropaolo, F., Pira, C., Pocar, A., Poehlmann, D. M., Pordes, S., Poudel, S. S., Pralavorio, P., Price, D., Raffaelli, F., Ragusa, F., Ramirez, A., Razeti, M., Razeto, A., Renshaw, A. L., Rescia, S., Rescigno, M., Resnati, F., Retiere, F., Rignanese, L. P., Ripoli, C., Rivetti, A., Rode, J., Romero, L., Rossi, M., Rubbia, A., Salatino, P., Samoylov, O., Sánchez García, E., Sandford, E., Sanfilippo, S., Santone, D., Santorelli, R., Savarese, C., Scapparone, E., Schlitzer, B., Scioli, G., Semenov, D. A., Shaw, B., Shchagin, A., Sheshukov, A., Simeone, M., Skensved, P., Skorokhvatov, M. D., Smirnov, O., Smith, B., Sokolov, A., Steri, A., Stracka, S., Strickland, V., Stringer, M., Sulis, S., Suvorov, Y., Szelc, A. M., Tartaglia, R., Testera, G., Thorpe, T. N., Tonazzo, A., Torres-Lara, S., Tricomi, A., Unzhakov, E. V., Usai, G., Vallivilayil John, T., Viant, T., Viel, S., Vishneva, A., Vogelaar, R. B., Wada, M., Wang, H., Wang, Y., Westerdale, S., Wheadon, R. J., Williams, L., Wojcik, Ma. M., Wojcik, Ma., Xiao, X., Yang, C., Ye, Z., Zani, A., Zichichi, A., Zuzel, G., Zykova, M. P., Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille (CPPM), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Énergies (LPNHE (UMR_7585)), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP), AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP), DarkSide 20k, Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité), Agnes P., Albergo S., Albuquerque I.F.M., Alexander T., Alici A., Alton A.K., Amaudruz P., Arcelli S., Ave M., Avetissov I.C., Avetisov R.I., Azzolini O., Back H.O., Balmforth Z., Barbarian V., Barrado Olmedo A., Barrillon P., Basco A., Batignani G., Bondar A., Bonivento W.M., Borisova E., Bottino B., Boulay M.G., Buccino G., Bussino S., Busto J., Buzulutskov A., Cadeddu M., Cadoni M., Caminata A., Canci N., Cappello G., Caravati M., Cardenas-Montes M., Carlini M., Carnesecchi F., Castello P., Catalanotti S., Cataudella V., Cavalcante P., Cavuoti S., Cebrian S., Cela Ruiz J.M., Celano B., Chashin S., Chepurnov A., Chyhyrynets E., Cicalo C., Cifarelli L., Cintas D., Coccetti F., Cocco V., Colocci M., E. Conde Vilda, Consiglio L., Copello S., Corning J., Covone G., Czudak P., D'Auria S., Da Rocha Rolo M.D., Dadoun O., Daniel M., Davini S., De Candia A., De Cecco S., De Falco A., De Filippis G., De Gruttola D., De Guido G., De Rosa G., Della Valle M., Dellacasa G., De Pasquale S., Derbin A.V., Devoto A., Di Noto L., Dionisi C., Di Stefano P., Dolganov G., Dordei F., Doria L., Downing M., Erjavec T., Fernandez Diaz M., Fiorillo G., Franceschi A., Franco D., Frolov E., Funicello N., Gabriele F., Galbiati C., Garbini M., Garcia Abia P., Gendotti A., Ghiano C., Giampaolo R.A., Giganti C., Giorgi M.A., Giovanetti G.K., Goicoechea Casanueva V., Gola A., Graciani Diaz R., Grigoriev G.Y., Grobov A., Gromov M., Guan M., Guerzoni M., Gulino M., Guo C., Hackett B.R., Hallin A., Haranczyk M., Hill S., Horikawa S., Hubaut F., Hugues T., Hungerford E.V., Ianni A., Ippolito V., James C.C., Jillings C., Kachru P., Kemp A.A., Kendziora C.L., Keppel G., Khomyakov A.V., Kim S., Kish A., Kochanek I., Kondo K., Korga G., Kubankin A., Kugathasan R., Kuss M., Kuzniak M., La Commara M., Lai M., Langrock S., Leyton M., Li X., Lidey L., Lissia M., Longo G., Machulin I.N., Mapelli L., Marasciulli A., Margotti A., Mari S.M., Maricic J., Martinez M., Martinez Rojas A.D., Martoff C.J., Masoni A., Mazzi A., McDonald A.B., Mclaughlin J., Messina A., Meyers P.D., Miletic T., Milincic R., Moggi A., Moharana A., Moioli S., Monroe J., Morisi S., Morrocchi M., Mozhevitina E.N., Mroz T., Muratova V.N., Muscas C., Musenich L., Musico P., Nania R., Napolitano T., Navrer Agasson A., Nessi M., Nikulin I., Nowak J., Oleinik A., Oleynikov V., Pagani L., Pallavicini M., Pandola L., Pantic E., Paoloni E., Paternoster G., Pegoraro P.A., Pelczar K., Pellegrini L.A., Pellegrino C., Perotti F., Pesudo V., Picciau E., Pietropaolo F., Pira C., Pocar A., Poehlmann D.M., Pordes S., Poudel S.S., Pralavorio P., Price D., Raffaelli F., Ragusa F., Ramirez A., Razeti M., Razeto A., Renshaw A.L., Rescia S., Rescigno M., Resnati F., Retiere F., Rignanese L.P., Ripoli C., Rivetti A., Rode J., Romero L., Rossi M., Rubbia A., Salatino P., Samoylov O., Sanchez Garcia E., Sandford E., Sanfilippo S., Santone D., Santorelli R., Savarese C., Scapparone E., Schlitzer B., Scioli G., Semenov D.A., Shaw B., Shchagin A., Sheshukov A., Simeone M., Skensved P., Skorokhvatov M.D., Smirnov O., Smith B., Sokolov A., Steri A., Stracka S., Strickland V., Stringer M., Sulis S., Suvorov Y., Szelc A.M., Tartaglia R., Testera G., Thorpe T.N., Tonazzo A., Torres-Lara S., Tricomi A., Unzhakov E.V., Usai G., Vallivilayil John T., Viant T., Viel S., Vishneva A., Vogelaar R.B., Wada M., Wang H., Wang Y., Westerdale S., Wheadon R.J., Williams L., Wojcik M.M., Wojcik M., Xiao X., Yang C., Ye Z., Zani A., Zichichi A., Zuzel G., and Zykova M.P.

Subjects
Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Astrophysics, dark matter: direct detection, 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, neutrino: flux, charged current, neutrino: supernova, Detectors and Experimental Techniques, physics.ins-det, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Physics, Elastic scattering, astro-ph.HE, Dark matter detector, dark matter detectors, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), oscillation, suppression, Supernova, Neutrino detector, astro-ph.IM, target: mass, Neutrino, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, burst, Astrophysics and Astronomy, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Dark matter, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, ARGÔNIO, neutrino: energy, 0103 physical sciences, ionization, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], supernova neutrinos, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, neutrino nucleus: scattering, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, background, dark matter: mass, dark matter: elastic scattering, Astronomy and Astrophysics, dark matter detectors, supernova neutrinos, Type II supernova, sensitivity, Galaxy, liquid argon, coherence, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Electron neutrino, Dark matter detectors, Supernova neutrinos
Abstract

Future liquid-argon DarkSide-20k and ARGO detectors, designed for direct dark matter search, will be sensitive also to core-collapse supernova neutrinos, via coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering. This interaction channel is flavor-insensitive with a high-cross section, enabling for a high-statistics neutrino detection with target masses of $\sim$50~t and $\sim$360~t for DarkSide-20k and ARGO, respectively. Thanks to the low-energy threshold of $\sim$0.5~keV$_{nr}$ achievable by exploiting the ionization channel, DarkSide-20k and ARGO have the potential to discover supernova bursts throughout our galaxy and up to the Small Magellanic Cloud, respectively, assuming a 11-M$_{\odot}$ progenitor star. We report also on the sensitivity to the neutronization burst, whose electron neutrino flux is suppressed by oscillations when detected via charged current and elastic scattering. Finally, the accuracies in the reconstruction of the average and total neutrino energy in the different phases of the supernova burst, as well as its time profile, are also discussed, taking into account the expected background and the detector response., 21 pages, 8 figures

Published
2021

26. Performance of the ReD TPC, a novel double-phase LAr detector with silicon photomultiplier readout

Author

Agnes, P., primary, Albergo, S., additional, Albuquerque, I., additional, Arba, M., additional, Ave, M., additional, Boiano, A., additional, Bonivento, W. M., additional, Bottino, B., additional, Bussino, S., additional, Cadeddu, M., additional, Caminata, A., additional, Canci, N., additional, Cappello, G., additional, Caravati, M., additional, Cariello, M., additional, Castellano, S., additional, Catalanotti, S., additional, Cataudella, V., additional, Cereseto, R., additional, Cesarano, R., additional, Cicalò, C., additional, Covone, G., additional, de Candia, A., additional, De Filippis, G., additional, De Rosa, G., additional, Davini, S., additional, Dionisi, C., additional, Dolganov, G., additional, Fiorillo, G., additional, Franco, D., additional, Giovanetti, G. K., additional, Galbiati, C., additional, Gulino, M., additional, Ippolito, V., additional, Kemmerich, N., additional, Kochanek, I., additional, Korga, G., additional, Kuss, M., additional, La Commara, M., additional, La Delfa, L., additional, Leyton, M., additional, Li, X., additional, Lissia, M., additional, Mari, S. M., additional, Martoff, C. J., additional, Masone, V., additional, Matteucci, G., additional, Musico, P., additional, Oleynikov, V., additional, Pallavicini, M., additional, Pandola, L., additional, Razeto, A., additional, Rescigno, M., additional, Rode, J., additional, Rossi, N., additional, Sablone, D., additional, Sanfilippo, S., additional, Scapparone, E., additional, Sosa, A., additional, Suvorov, Y., additional, Testera, G., additional, Tricomi, A., additional, Tuveri, M., additional, Wada, M., additional, Wang, H., additional, Wang, Y., additional, and Westerdale, S., additional

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2021
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27. Separating $${^{39}\hbox {Ar}}$$ <math> <mrow> <msup> <mrow></mrow> <mn>39</mn> </msup> <mtext>Ar</mtext> </mrow> </math> from $${^{40}\hbox {Ar}}$$ <math> <mrow> <msup> <mrow></mrow> <mn>40</mn> </msup> <mtext>Ar</mtext> </mrow> </math> by cryogenic distillation with Aria for dark-matter searches

Author

Agnes, P., Albergo, S., Albuquerque, I., Alexander, T., Alici, A., Alton, A., Amaudruz, P., Arba, M., Arpaia, P., Arcelli, S., Ave, M., Avetissov, I., Avetisov, R., Azzolini, O., Back, H., Balmforth, Z., Barbarian , V., Barrado Olmedo, A., Barrillon, P., Basco, A., Batignani, G., Bondar, A., Bonivento, W., Borisova, E., Bottino, B., Boulay, M., Buccino, G., Bussino, S., Busto, J., Buzulutskov, A., Cadeddu, M., Cadoni, M., Caminata, A., Canesi, E., Canci, N., Cappello, G., Caravati, M., Cárdenas-Montes, M., Cargioli, N., Carlini , M., Carnesecchi, F., Castello, P., Castellani, A., Catalanotti, S., Cataudella, V., Cavalcante, P., Cavuoti, S., Cebrian, S., Cela Ruiz, J., Celano, B., Chashin, S., Chepurnov, A., Cicalò, C., Cifarelli, L., Cintas, D., Coccetti, F., Cocco, V., Colocci, M., Conde Vilda, E., Consiglio, L., Copello, S., Corning, J., Covone, G., Czudak, P., D’Aniello, M., D’Auria, S., Da Rocha Rolo, M., Dadoun, O., Daniel, M., Davini, S., De Candia , A., De Cecco, S., De Falco, A., De Filippis, G., De Gruttola, D., De Guido, G., De Rosa, G., Della Valle, M., Dellacasa, G., De Pasquale, S., Derbin, A., Devoto, A., Di Noto, L., Di Eusanio, F., Dionisi, C., Di Stefano, P., Dolganov, G., Dongiovanni, D., Dordei, F., Downing, M., Erjavec, T., Falciano, S., Farenzena, S., Fernandez Diaz, M., Filip, C., Fiorillo, G., Franceschi, A., Franco, D., Frolov, E., Funicello, N., Gabriele, F., Galbiati, C., Garbini, M., Garcia Abia, P., Gendotti, A., Ghiano, C., Giampaolo, R., Giganti, C., Giorgi, M., Giovanetti, G., Gligan, M., Goicoechea Casanueva, V., Gola, A., Goretti, A., Graciani Diaz, R., Grigoriev, G., Grobov, A., Gromov, M., Guan, M., Guerzoni, M., Guetti, M., Gulino, M., Guo, C., Hackett, B., Hallin, A., Haranczyk, M., Hill, S., Horikawa, S., Hubaut, F., Hugues, T., Hungerford, E., Ianni, An., Ippolito, V., James, C., Jillings, C., Kachru, P., Kemp, A., Kendziora, C., Keppel, G., Khomyakov, A., Kish, A., Kochanek, I., Kondo, K., Korga, G., Kubankin, A., Kugathasan, R., Kuss, M., Kuźniak, M., La Commara, M., La Delfa, L., La Grasta, D., Lai, M., Lami, N., Langrock, S., Leyton, M., Li, X., Lidey, L., Lippi, F., Lissia, M., Longo, G., Maccioni, N., Machulin, I., Mapelli, L., Marasciulli, A., Margotti, A., Mari, S., Maricic, J., Marinelli, M., Martínez, M., Martinez Rojas, A., Martini, A., Mascia, M., Masetto, M., Masoni, A., Mazzi, A., McDonald, A., Mclaughlin, J., Messina, A., Meyers, P., Miletic, T., Milincic, R., Miola, R., Moggi, A., Moharana, A., Moioli, S., Monroe, J., Morisi, S., Morrocchi, M., Mozhevitina, E., Mróz, T., Muratova, V., Murenu, A., Muscas, C., Musenich, L., Musico, P., Nania, R., Napolitano, T., Navrer Agasson, A., Nessi, M., Nikulin, I., Nowak, J., Oleinik, A., Oleynikov, V., Pagani, L., Pallavicini, M., Palmas, S., Pandola, L., Pantic, E., Paoloni, E., Paternoster, G., Pegoraro, P., Pellegrini, L., Pellegrino, C., Pelczar, K., Perotti, F., Pesudo, V., Picciau, E., Pietropaolo, F., Pinna, T., Pocar, A., Podda, P., Poehlmann, D., Pordes, S., Poudel, S., Pralavorio, P., Price, D., Raffaelli, F., Ragusa, F., Ramirez, A., Razeti, M., Razeto, A., Renshaw, A., Rescia, S., Rescigno, M., Resnati, F., Retiere, F., Rignanese , L., Ripoli, C., Rivetti, A., Rode, J., Romero, L., Rossi, M., Rubbia, A., Rucaj, M., Sabiu, G., Salatino, P., Samoylov, O., Sánchez García, E., Sandford, E., Sanfilippo, S., Sangiorgio, V., Santacroce, V., Santone, D., Santorelli, R., Santucci, A., Savarese, C., Scapparone, E., Schlitzer, B., Scioli, G., Semenov, D., Shaw, B., Shchagin, A., Sheshukov, A., Simeone, M., Skensved, P., Skorokhvatov, M., Smirnov, O., Smith, B., Sokolov, A., Stefanizzi, R., Steri, A., Stracka, S., Strickland , V., Stringer, M., Sulis, S., Suvorov, Y., Szelc, A., Szucs-Balazs, J., Tartaglia, R., Testera, G., Thorpe, T., Tonazzo, A., Torres-Lara, S., Tosti, S., Tricomi, A., Tuveri, M., Unzhakov, E., Usai, G., Vallivilayil John, T., Vescovi, S., Viant, T., Viel, S., Vishneva , A., Vogelaar, R., Wada, M., Wang, H., Wang, Y., Westerdale , S., Wheadon, R., Williams, L., M.Wojcik, Ma., Wojcik, Ma., Xiao, X., Yang, C., Zani, A., Zenobio, F., Zichichi, A., Zuzel, G., and Zykova, M.

Abstract

Aria is a plant hosting a $${350}\,\hbox {m}$$ 350 m cryogenic isotopic distillation column, the tallest ever built, which is being installed in a mine shaft at Carbosulcis S.p.A., Nuraxi-Figus (SU), Italy. Aria is one of the pillars of the argon dark-matter search experimental program, lead by the Global Argon Dark Matter Collaboration. It was designed to reduce the isotopic abundance of $${^{39}\hbox {Ar}}$$ 39 Ar in argon extracted from underground sources, called Underground Argon (UAr), which is used for dark-matter searches. Indeed, $${^{39}\hbox {Ar}}$$ 39 Ar is a $$\beta $$ β -emitter of cosmogenic origin, whose activity poses background and pile-up concerns in the detectors. In this paper, we discuss the requirements, design, construction, tests, and projected performance of the plant for the isotopic cryogenic distillation of argon. We also present the successful results of the isotopic cryogenic distillation of nitrogen with a prototype plant.

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2021

28. Separating Ar39 from Ar40 by cryogenic distillation with Aria for dark matter searches

Author

Agnes, P., Albergo, S., Albuquerque, I. F. M., Alexander, T., Alici, A., Alton, A. K., Amaudruz, P., Arba, M., Arpaia, P., Arcelli, S., Ave, M., Avetissov, I. Ch., Avetisov, R. I., Azzolini, O., Back, H. O., Balmforth, Z., Barbarian , V., Barrado Olmedo, A., Barrillon, P., Basco, A., Batignani, G., Bondar, A., Bonivento, W. M., Borisova, E., Bottino, B., Boulay, M. G., Buccino, G., Bussino, S., Busto, J., Buzulutskov, A., Cadeddu, M., Cadoni, M., Caminata, A., Canesi, E. V., Canci, N., Cappello, G., Caravati, M., Cárdenas-Montes, M., Cargioli, N., Carlini , M., Carnesecchi, F., Castello, P., Castellani, A., Catalanotti, S., Cataudella, V., Cavalcante, P., Cavuoti, S., Cebrian, S., Cela Ruiz, J. M., Celano, B., Chashin, S., Chepurnov, A., Cicalò, C., Cifarelli, L., Cintas, D., Coccetti, F., Cocco, V., Colocci, M., Conde Vilda, E., Consiglio, L., Copello, S., Corning, J., Covone, G., Czudak, P., D’Aniello, M., D’Auria, S., Da Rocha Rolo, M. D., Dadoun, O., Daniel, M., Davini, S., De Candia , A., De Cecco, S., De Falco, A., De Filippis, G., De Gruttola, D., De Guido, G., De Rosa, G., Della Valle, M., Dellacasa, G., De Pasquale, S., Derbin, A. V., Devoto, A., Di Noto, L., Di Eusanio, F., Dionisi, C., Di Stefano, P., Dolganov, G., Dongiovanni, D., Dordei, F., Downing, M., Erjavec, T., Falciano, S., Farenzena, S., Fernandez Diaz, M., Filip, C., Fiorillo, G., Franceschi, A., Franco, D., Frolov, E., Funicello, N., Gabriele, F., Galbiati, C., Garbini, M., Garcia Abia, P., Gendotti, A., Ghiano, C., Giampaolo, R. A., Giganti, C., Giorgi, M. A., Giovanetti, G. K., Gligan, M. L., Goicoechea Casanueva, V., Gola, A., Goretti, A. M., Graciani Diaz, R., Grigoriev, G. Y., Grobov, A., Gromov, M., Guan, M., Guerzoni, M., Guetti, M., Gulino, M., Guo, C., Hackett, B. R., Hallin, A., Haranczyk, M., Hill, S., Horikawa, S., Hubaut, F., Hugues, T., Hungerford, E. V., Ianni, An., Ippolito, V., James, C. C., Jillings, C., Kachru, P., Kemp, A. A., Kendziora, C. L., Keppel, G., Khomyakov, A. V., Kish, A., Kochanek, I., Kondo, K., Korga, G., Kubankin, A., Kugathasan, R., Kuss, M., Kuzniak, M., La Commara, M., La Delfa, L., La Grasta, D., Lai, M., Lami, N., Langrock, S., Leyton, M., Li, X., Lidey, L., Lippi, F., Lissia, M., Longo, G., Maccioni, N., Machulin, I. N., Mapelli, L., Marasciulli, A., Margotti, A., Mari, S. M., Maricic, J., Marinelli, M., Martínez, M., Martinez Rojas, A. D., Martini, A., Mascia, M., Masetto, M., Masoni, A., Mazzi, A., McDonald, A. B., Mclaughlin, J., Messina, A., Meyers, P. D., Miletic, T., Milincic, R., Miola, R., Moggi, A., Moharana, A., Moioli, S., Monroe, J., Morisi, S., Morrocchi, M., Mozhevitina, E. N., Mróz, T., Muratova, V. N., Murenu, A., Muscas, C., Musenich, L., Musico, P., Nania, R., Napolitano, T., Navrer Agasson, A., Nessi, M., Nikulin, I., Nowak, J., Oleinik, A., Oleynikov, V., Pagani, L., Pallavicini, M., Palmas, S., Pandola, L., Pantic, E., Paoloni, E., Paternoster, G., Pegoraro, P. A., Pellegrini, L. A., Pellegrino, C., and Pelczar, K.

Subjects
Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract

Aria is a plant hosting a 350m cryogenic isotopic distillation column, the tallest ever built, which is being installed in a mine shaft at Carbosulcis S.p.A., Nuraxi-Figus (SU), Italy. Aria is one of the pillars of the argon dark-matter search experimental program, lead by the Global Argon Dark Matter Collaboration. It was designed to reduce the isotopic abundance of 39Ar in argon extracted from underground sources, called Underground Argon (UAr), which is used for dark-matter searches. Indeed, 39Ar is a -emitter of cosmogenic origin, whose activity poses background and pile-up concerns in the detectors. In this paper, we discuss the requirements, design, construction, tests, and projected performance of the plant for the isotopic cryogenic distillation of argon. We also present the successful results of the isotopic cryogenic distillation of nitrogen with a prototype plant.

Published
2021

29. Sensitivity of future liquid argon dark matter search experiments to core-collapse supernova neutrinos

Author

Agnes, P., additional, Albergo, S., additional, Albuquerque, I.F.M., additional, Alexander, T., additional, Alici, A., additional, Alton, A.K., additional, Amaudruz, P., additional, Arcelli, S., additional, Ave, M., additional, Avetissov, I.Ch., additional, Avetisov, R.I., additional, Azzolini, O., additional, Back, H.O., additional, Balmforth, Z., additional, Barbarian, V., additional, Barrado Olmedo, A., additional, Barrillon, P., additional, Basco, A., additional, Batignani, G., additional, Bondar, A., additional, Bonivento, W.M., additional, Borisova, E., additional, Bottino, B., additional, Boulay, M.G., additional, Buccino, G., additional, Bussino, S., additional, Busto, J., additional, Buzulutskov, A., additional, Cadeddu, M., additional, Cadoni, M., additional, Caminata, A., additional, Canci, N., additional, Cappello, G., additional, Caravati, M., additional, Cárdenas-Montes, M., additional, Carlini, M., additional, Carnesecchi, F., additional, Castello, P., additional, Catalanotti, S., additional, Cataudella, V., additional, Cavalcante, P., additional, Cavuoti, S., additional, Cebrian, S., additional, Cela Ruiz, J.M., additional, Celano, B., additional, Chashin, S., additional, Chepurnov, A., additional, Chyhyrynets, E, additional, Cicalò, C., additional, Cifarelli, L., additional, Cintas, D., additional, Coccetti, F., additional, Cocco, V., additional, Colocci, M., additional, Conde Vilda, E., additional, Consiglio, L., additional, Copello, S., additional, Corning, J., additional, Covone, G., additional, Czudak, P., additional, D'Auria, S., additional, Da Rocha Rolo, M.D., additional, Dadoun, O., additional, Daniel, M., additional, Davini, S., additional, De Candia, A., additional, De Cecco, S., additional, De Falco, A., additional, De Filippis, G., additional, De Gruttola, D., additional, De Guido, G., additional, De Rosa, G., additional, Della Valle, M., additional, Dellacasa, G., additional, De Pasquale, S., additional, Derbin, A.V., additional, Devoto, A., additional, Di Noto, L., additional, Dionisi, C., additional, Di Stefano, P., additional, Dolganov, G., additional, Dordei, F., additional, Doria, L., additional, Downing, M., additional, Erjavec, T., additional, Fernandez Diaz, M., additional, Fiorillo, G., additional, Franceschi, A., additional, Franco, D., additional, Frolov, E., additional, Funicello, N., additional, Gabriele, F., additional, Galbiati, C., additional, Garbini, M., additional, Garcia Abia, P., additional, Gendotti, A., additional, Ghiano, C., additional, Giampaolo, R.A., additional, Giganti, C., additional, Giorgi, M.A., additional, Giovanetti, G.K., additional, Goicoechea Casanueva, V., additional, Gola, A., additional, Graciani Diaz, R., additional, Grigoriev, G.Y., additional, Grobov, A., additional, Gromov, M., additional, Guan, M., additional, Guerzoni, M., additional, Gulino, M., additional, Guo, C., additional, Hackett, B.R., additional, Hallin, A., additional, Haranczyk, M., additional, Hill, S., additional, Horikawa, S., additional, Hubaut, F., additional, Hugues, T., additional, Hungerford, E.V., additional, Ianni, An., additional, Ippolito, V., additional, James, C.C., additional, Jillings, C., additional, Kachru, P., additional, Kemp, A.A., additional, Kendziora, C.L., additional, Keppel, G., additional, Khomyakov, A.V., additional, Kim, S., additional, Kish, A., additional, Kochanek, I., additional, Kondo, K., additional, Korga, G., additional, Kubankin, A., additional, Kugathasan, R., additional, Kuss, M., additional, Kuźniak, M., additional, La Commara, M., additional, Lai, M., additional, Langrock, S., additional, Leyton, M., additional, Li, X., additional, Lidey, L., additional, Lissia, M., additional, Longo, G., additional, Machulin, I.N., additional, Mapelli, L., additional, Marasciulli, A., additional, Margotti, A., additional, Mari, S.M., additional, Maricic, J., additional, Martínez, M., additional, Martinez Rojas, A.D., additional, Martoff, C.J., additional, Masoni, A., additional, Mazzi, A., additional, McDonald, A.B., additional, Mclaughlin, J., additional, Messina, A., additional, Meyers, P.D., additional, Miletic, T., additional, Milincic, R., additional, Moggi, A., additional, Moharana, A., additional, Moioli, S., additional, Monroe, J., additional, Morisi, S., additional, Morrocchi, M., additional, Mozhevitina, E.N., additional, Mróz, T., additional, Muratova, V.N., additional, Muscas, C., additional, Musenich, L., additional, Musico, P., additional, Nania, R., additional, Napolitano, T., additional, Navrer Agasson, A., additional, Nessi, M., additional, Nikulin, I., additional, Nowak, J., additional, Oleinik, A., additional, Oleynikov, V., additional, Pagani, L., additional, Pallavicini, M., additional, Pandola, L., additional, Pantic, E., additional, Paoloni, E., additional, Paternoster, G., additional, Pegoraro, P.A., additional, Pelczar, K., additional, Pellegrini, L.A., additional, Pellegrino, C., additional, Perotti, F., additional, Pesudo, V., additional, Picciau, E., additional, Pietropaolo, F., additional, Pira, C., additional, Pocar, A., additional, Poehlmann, D.M., additional, Pordes, S., additional, Poudel, S.S., additional, Pralavorio, P., additional, Price, D., additional, Raffaelli, F., additional, Ragusa, F., additional, Ramirez, A., additional, Razeti, M., additional, Razeto, A., additional, Renshaw, A.L., additional, Rescia, S., additional, Rescigno, M., additional, Resnati, F., additional, Retiere, F., additional, Rignanese, L.P., additional, Ripoli, C., additional, Rivetti, A., additional, Rode, J., additional, Romero, L., additional, Rossi, M., additional, Rubbia, A., additional, Salatino, P., additional, Samoylov, O., additional, Sánchez García, E., additional, Sandford, E., additional, Sanfilippo, S., additional, Santone, D., additional, Santorelli, R., additional, Savarese, C., additional, Scapparone, E., additional, Schlitzer, B., additional, Scioli, G., additional, Semenov, D.A., additional, Shaw, B., additional, Shchagin, A., additional, Sheshukov, A., additional, Simeone, M., additional, Skensved, P., additional, Skorokhvatov, M.D., additional, Smirnov, O., additional, Smith, B., additional, Sokolov, A., additional, Steri, A., additional, Stracka, S., additional, Strickland, V., additional, Stringer, M., additional, Sulis, S., additional, Suvorov, Y., additional, Szelc, A.M., additional, Tartaglia, R., additional, Testera, G., additional, Thorpe, T.N., additional, Tonazzo, A., additional, Torres-Lara, S., additional, Tricomi, A., additional, Unzhakov, E.V., additional, Usai, G., additional, Vallivilayil John, T., additional, Viant, T., additional, Viel, S., additional, Vishneva, A., additional, Vogelaar, R.B., additional, Wada, M., additional, Wang, H., additional, Wang, Y., additional, Westerdale, S., additional, Wheadon, R.J., additional, Williams, L., additional, Wojcik, Ma.M., additional, Wojcik, Ma., additional, Xiao, X., additional, Yang, C., additional, Ye, Z., additional, Zani, A., additional, Zichichi, A., additional, Zuzel, G., additional, and Zykova, M.P., additional

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2021
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31. Resistance of differentiated human airway epithelium to infection by rhinovirus

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Lopez-Souza, N., Dolganov, G., Dubin, R., Sachs, L.A., Sassina, L., Sporer, H., Yagi, S., Schnurr, D., Boushey, H.A., and Widdicombe, J.H.

Subjects
Rhinoviruses -- Research, Biological sciences
Abstract

Virtually all in vitro studies of the effects of rhinovirus on human airway epithelium have used cells grown under conditions known to produce low levels of differentiation. The relevance of the results to native epithelium is questionable. Here we grew primary cultures of human tracheal or nasal epithelium under three conditions. One condition produced pseudostratified, mucociliary cells virtually indistinguishable from native epithelium. The other two conditions produced undifferentiated squamous cells lacking cilia. Cells were infected for 6 h with rhinovirus-16. After a 24-h incubation period, we determined levels of viral RNA in the cells, numbers of infectious viral particles released in the mucosal medium, expression of a variety of epithelial cytokines and other proteins, release of IL-6 and IL-8, and transepithelial electrical resistance and voltage. After infection, levels of viral RNA in the poorly differentiated cells were 30 or 130 times those in the differentiated. Furthermore, expression of mRNA for inflammatory cytokines, release of infectious particles, and release of IL-6 and IL-8 were closely correlated with the degree of viral infection. Thus well-differentiated cells are much more resistant to viral infection and its functional consequences than are poorly differentiated cells from the same source. ion transport; porous-bottomed inserts; short-circuit current; transepithelial electrical resistance

Published
2004

32. Design and construction of a new detector to measure ultra-low radioactive-isotope contamination of argon

Author

Aalseth, C.E., primary, Abdelhakim, S., additional, Acerbi, F., additional, Agnes, P., additional, Ajaj, R., additional, Albuquerque, I.F.M., additional, Alexander, T., additional, Alici, A., additional, Alton, A.K., additional, Amaudruz, P., additional, Ameli, F., additional, Anstey, J., additional, Antonioli, P., additional, Arba, M., additional, Arcelli, S., additional, Ardito, R., additional, Arnquist, I.J., additional, Arpaia, P., additional, Asner, D.M., additional, Asunskis, A., additional, Ave, M., additional, Back, H.O., additional, Barbaryan, V., additional, Olmedo, A. Barrado, additional, Batignani, G., additional, Bisogni, M.G., additional, Bocci, V., additional, Bondar, A., additional, Bonfini, G., additional, Bonivento, W., additional, Borisova, E., additional, Bottino, B., additional, Boulay, M.G., additional, Bunker, R., additional, Bussino, S., additional, Buzulutskov, A., additional, Cadeddu, M., additional, Cadoni, M., additional, Caminata, A., additional, Canci, N., additional, Candela, A., additional, Cantini, C., additional, Caravati, M., additional, Cariello, M., additional, Carnesecchi, F., additional, Carpinelli, M., additional, Castellani, A., additional, Castello, P., additional, Catalanotti, S., additional, Cataudella, V., additional, Cavalcante, P., additional, Cavazza, D., additional, Cavuoti, S., additional, Cebrian, S., additional, Ruiz, J.M. Cela, additional, Celano, B., additional, Cereseto, R., additional, Cheng, W., additional, Chepurnov, A., additional, Cicalò, C., additional, Cifarelli, L., additional, Citterio, M., additional, Coccetti, F., additional, Cocco, A.G., additional, Cocco, V., additional, Colocci, M., additional, Consiglio, L., additional, Cossio, F., additional, Covone, G., additional, Crivelli, P., additional, D'Antone, I., additional, D'Incecco, M., additional, D'Urso, D., additional, Rolo, M.D. Da Rocha, additional, Dadoun, O., additional, Daniel, M., additional, Davini, S., additional, Candia, A. De, additional, Cecco, S. De, additional, Deo, M. De, additional, Falco, A. De, additional, Filippis, G. De, additional, Gruttola, D. De, additional, Guido, G. De, additional, Rosa, G. De, additional, Dellacasa, G., additional, Demontis, P., additional, DePaquale, S., additional, Derbin, A.V., additional, Devoto, A., additional, Eusanio, F. Di, additional, Noto, L. Di, additional, Pietro, G. Di, additional, Stefano, P. Di, additional, Dionisi, C., additional, Dolganov, G., additional, Dordei, F., additional, Downing, M., additional, Edalatfar, F., additional, Empl, A., additional, Diaz, M. Fernandez, additional, Ferri, A., additional, Filip, C., additional, Fiorillo, G., additional, Fomenko, K., additional, Franceschi, A., additional, Franco, D., additional, Froudakis, G.E., additional, Gabriele, F., additional, Gabrieli, A., additional, Galbiati, C., additional, Garbini, M., additional, Abia, P. Garcia, additional, Fora, D. Gascón, additional, Gendotti, A., additional, Ghiano, C., additional, Ghisi, A., additional, Giagu, S., additional, Giampa, P., additional, Giampaolo, R.A., additional, Giganti, C., additional, Giorgi, M.A., additional, Giovanetti, G.K., additional, Gligan, M.L., additional, Gola, A., additional, Gorchakov, O., additional, Grab, M., additional, Diaz, R. Graciani, additional, Granato, F., additional, Grassi, M., additional, Grate, J.W., additional, Grigoriev, G.Y., additional, Grobov, A., additional, Gromov, M., additional, Guan, M., additional, Guerra, M.B.B., additional, Guerzoni, M., additional, Gulino, M., additional, Haaland, R.K., additional, Hackett, B.R., additional, Hallin, A., additional, Harrop, B., additional, Hoppe, E.W., additional, Horikawa, S., additional, Hosseini, B., additional, Hubaut, F., additional, Humble, P., additional, Hungerford, E.V., additional, Ianni, An., additional, Ilyasov, A., additional, Ippolito, V., additional, Jillings, C., additional, Keeter, K., additional, Kendziora, C.L., additional, Kim, S., additional, Kochanek, I., additional, Kondo, K., additional, Kopp, G., additional, Korablev, D., additional, Korga, G., additional, Kubankin, A., additional, Kugathasan, R., additional, Kuss, M., additional, Kuźniak, M., additional, Commara, M. La, additional, Delfa, L. La, additional, Lai, M., additional, Langrock, S., additional, Lebois, M., additional, Lehnert, B., additional, Levashko, N., additional, Li, X., additional, Liqiang, Q., additional, Lissia, M., additional, Lodi, G.U., additional, Longo, G., additional, Manzano, R. López, additional, Lussana, R., additional, Luzzi, L., additional, Machado, A.A., additional, Machulin, I.N., additional, Mandarano, A., additional, Mapelli, L., additional, Marcante, M., additional, Margotti, A., additional, Mari, S.M., additional, Mariani, M., additional, Maricic, J., additional, Marinelli, M., additional, Marras, D., additional, Martínez, M., additional, Morales, J.J. Martínez, additional, Rojas, A.D. Martinez, additional, Martoff, C.J., additional, Mascia, M., additional, Mason, J., additional, Masoni, A., additional, Mazzi, A., additional, McDonald, A.B., additional, Messina, A., additional, Meyers, P.D., additional, Miletic, T., additional, Milincic, R., additional, Moggi, A., additional, Moioli, S., additional, Monroe, J., additional, Morrocchi, M., additional, Mroz, T., additional, Mu, W., additional, Muratova, V.N., additional, Murphy, S., additional, Muscas, C., additional, Musico, P., additional, Nania, R., additional, Napolitano, T., additional, Agasson, A. Navrer, additional, Nessi, M., additional, Nikulin, I., additional, Oleinik, A., additional, Oleynikov, V., additional, Orsini, M., additional, Ortica, F., additional, Pagani, L., additional, Pallavicini, M., additional, Palmas, S., additional, Pandola, L., additional, Pantic, E., additional, Paoloni, E., additional, Paternoster, G., additional, Pazzona, F., additional, Peeters, S., additional, Pegoraro, P.A., additional, Pelczar, K., additional, Pellegrini, L.A., additional, Pellegrino, C., additional, Pelliccia, N., additional, Perotti, F., additional, Pesudo, V., additional, Picciau, E., additional, Piemonte, C., additional, Pietropaolo, F., additional, Pocar, A., additional, Pollmann, T.R., additional, Portaluppi, D., additional, Poudel, S.S., additional, Pralavorio, P., additional, Price, D., additional, Radics, B., additional, Raffaelli, F., additional, Ragusa, F., additional, Razeti, M., additional, Razeto, A., additional, Regazzoni, V., additional, Regenfus, C., additional, Renshaw, A.L., additional, Rescia, S., additional, Rescigno, M., additional, Retiere, F., additional, Rignanese, L.P., additional, Rivetti, A., additional, Romani, A., additional, Romero, L., additional, Rossi, N., additional, Rubbia, A., additional, Sablone, D., additional, Sala, P., additional, Salatino, P., additional, Samoylov, O., additional, García, E. Sánchez, additional, Sanfilippo, S., additional, Sant, M., additional, Santone, D., additional, Santorelli, R., additional, Savarese, C., additional, Scapparone, E., additional, Schlitzer, B., additional, Scioli, G., additional, Segreto, E., additional, Seifert, A., additional, Semenov, D.A., additional, Shchagin, A., additional, Sheshukov, A., additional, Siddhanta, S., additional, Simeone, M., additional, Singh, P.N., additional, Skensved, P., additional, Skorokhvatov, M.D., additional, Smirnov, O., additional, Sobrero, G., additional, Sokolov, A., additional, Sotnikov, A., additional, Stainforth, R., additional, Steri, A., additional, Stracka, S., additional, Strickland, V., additional, Suffritti, G.B., additional, Sulis, S., additional, Suvorov, Y., additional, Szelc, A.M., additional, Tartaglia, R., additional, Testera, G., additional, Thorpe, T., additional, Tonazzo, A., additional, Tosi, A., additional, Tuveri, M., additional, Unzhakov, E.V., additional, Usai, G., additional, Vacca, A., additional, Vázquez-Jáuregui, E., additional, Verducci, M., additional, Viant, T., additional, Viel, S., additional, Villa, F., additional, Vishneva, A., additional, Vogelaar, R.B., additional, Wada, M., additional, Wahl, J., additional, Walding, J.J., additional, Wang, H., additional, Wang, Y., additional, Westerdale, S., additional, Wheadon, R.J., additional, Williams, R., additional, Wilson, J., additional, Wojcik, Marcin, additional, Wojcik, Mariusz, additional, Wu, S., additional, Xiao, X., additional, Yang, C., additional, Ye, Z., additional, Zuffa, M., additional, and Zuzel, G., additional

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2020
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33. Immunometabolic Signatures Predict Risk of Progression to Active Tuberculosis and Disease Outcome

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Duffy, F.J., Weiner, J., Hansen, S., Tabb, D.L., Suliman, S., Thompson, E., Maertzdorf, J., Shankar, S., Tromp, G., Parida, S., Dover, D., Axthelm, M.K., Sutherland, J.S., Dockrell, H.M., Ottenhoff, T.H.M., Scriba, T.J., Picker, L.J., Walzl, G., Kaufmann, S.H.E., Zak, D.E., Parida, S.K., Golinski, R., Jacobson, M., McEwen, G., Black, G.F., Spuy, G. van der, Stanley, K., Kriel, M., Plessis, N. du, Nene, N., Loxton, A.G., Chegou, N.N., Scriba, T., Fisher, M., Mahomed, H., Hughes, J., Downing, K., Penn-Nicholson, A., Mulenga, H., Abel, B., Bowmaker, M., Kagina, B., Kwong, W., Hanekom, C.W., Klein, M.R., Haks, M.C., Ranken, K.L.F., Geluk, A., Meijgaarden, K.E. van, Joosten, S.A., Baarle, D. van, Miedema, F., Boom, W.H., Thiel, B., Sadoff, J., Sizemore, D., Ramachandran, S., Barker, L., Brennan, M., Weichold, F., Muller, S., Geiter, L., Schoolnik, G., Dolganov, G., T. van, Mayanja-Kizza, H., Joloba, M., Zalwango, S., Nsereko, M., Okwera, B., Kisingo, H., Smith, S., Gorak-Stolinska, P., Hur, Y.G., Lalor, M., Lee, J.S., Crampin, A.C., French, N., Ngwira, B., Smith, A.B., Watkins, K., Ambrose, L., Simukonda, F., Mvula, H., Chilongo, F., Saul, J., Branson, K., Kassa, D., Abebe, A., Mesele, T., Tegbaru, B., Howe, R., Mihret, A., Aseffa, A., Bekele, Y., Iwnetu, R., Tafesse, M., Yamuah, L., Ota, M., Sutherland, J., Hill, P., Adegbola, R., Corrah, T., Antonio, M., Togun, T., Adetifa, I., Donkor, S., Andersen, P., Rosenkrands, I., Doherty, M., Weldingh, K., and GC6-74 Consortium

Subjects
transcriptomics, tuberculosis, inflammation, household contact, biomarker, host-pathogen interaction, metabolomics, rhesus macaque
Published
2019

41. Identifying genetic networks underlying myometrial transition to labor

Author

Salomonis, N., Cotte, N., Zambon, A. C., Pollard, K. S., Vranizan, K., Doniger, S. W., Dolganov, G., and Bruce Conklin

Subjects
RNA Processing, Bioinformatics, 1.1 Normal biological development and functioning, Messenger, Post-Transcriptional, Gestational Age, Mice, Uterine Contraction, Genetic, Underpinning research, Pregnancy, Information and Computing Sciences, Genetics, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Animals, Cluster Analysis, Aetiology, Gene Expression Profiling, Postpartum Period, Parturition, Biological Sciences, Heterotrimeric GTP-Binding Proteins, Kinetics, Good Health and Well Being, Gene Expression Regulation, Myometrium, RNA, Female, Transcription, Environmental Sciences, Signal Transduction
Abstract

BackgroundEarly transition to labor remains a major cause of infant mortality, yet the causes are largely unknown. Although several marker genes have been identified, little is known about the underlying global gene expression patterns and pathways that orchestrate these striking changes.ResultsWe performed a detailed time-course study of over 9,000 genes in mouse myometrium at defined physiological states: non-pregnant, mid-gestation, late gestation, and postpartum. This dataset allowed us to identify distinct patterns of gene expression that correspond to phases of myometrial 'quiescence', 'term activation', and 'postpartum involution'. Using recently developed functional mapping tools (HOPACH (hierarchical ordered partitioning and collapsing hybrid) and GenMAPP 2.0), we have identified new potential transcriptional regulatory gene networks mediating the transition from quiescence to term activation.ConclusionsThese results implicate the myometrium as an essential regulator of endocrine hormone (cortisol and progesterone synthesis) and signaling pathways (cyclic AMP and cyclic GMP stimulation) that direct quiescence via the transcriptional upregulation of both novel and previously associated regulators. With term activation, we observe the upregulation of cytoskeletal remodeling mediators (intermediate filaments), cell junctions, transcriptional regulators, and the coordinate downregulation of negative control checkpoints of smooth muscle contractile signaling. This analysis provides new evidence of multiple parallel mechanisms of uterine contractile regulation and presents new putative targets for regulating myometrial transformation and contraction.

Published
2005

44. Hair cycle and wound healing in mice with a keratinocyte-restricted deletion of FAK

Author

Essayem, S, primary, Kovacic-Milivojevic, B, additional, Baumbusch, C, additional, McDonagh, S, additional, Dolganov, G, additional, Howerton, K, additional, Larocque, N, additional, Mauro, T, additional, Ramirez, A, additional, Ramos, D M, additional, Fisher, S J, additional, Jorcano, J L, additional, Beggs, H E, additional, Reichardt, L F, additional, and Ilic, D, additional

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2005
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50. A novel method of gene transcript profiling in airway biopsy homogenates reveals increased expression of a Na+-K+-Cl- cotransporter (NKCC1) in asthmatic subjects.

Author

Dolganov, G M, Woodruff, P G, Novikov, A A, Zhang, Y, Ferrando, R E, Szubin, R, and Fahy, J V

Abstract

Comprehensive and systematic analysis of airway gene expression represents a strategy for addressing the multiple, complex, and largely untested hypotheses that exist for disease mechanisms, including asthma. Here, we report a novel real-time PCR-based method specifically designed for quantification of multiple low-abundance transcripts using as little as 2.5 fg of total RNA per gene. This method of gene expression profiling has the same specificity and sensitivity as RT-PCR and a throughput level comparable to low-density DNA microarray hybridization. In this two-step method, multiplex RT-PCR is successfully combined with individual gene quantification via real-time PCR on generated cDNA product. Using this method, we measured the expression of 75 genes in bronchial biopsies from asthmatic versus healthy subjects and found expected increases in expression levels of Th2 cytokines and their receptors in asthma. Surprisingly, we also found increased gene expression of NKCC1--a Na+-K+-Cl- cotransporter. Using immunohistochemical method, we confirmed increased protein expression for NKCC1 in the asthmatic subject with restricted localization to goblet cells. These data validate the new transcriptional profiling method and implicate NKCC1 in the pathophysiology of mucus hypersecretion in asthma. Potential applications for this method include transcriptional profiling in limited numbers of laser captured cells and validation of DNA microarray data in clinical specimens.

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2001
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