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LBNF/DUNE Cryostats and Cryogenics Infrastructure for the DUNE Far Detector, Design Report

DUNE is an international experiment dedicated to addressing some of the questions at the forefront of particle physics and astrophysics, including the mystifying preponderance of matter over antimatter in the early universe. The dual-site…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-12-15 LBNF/DUNE , : , M. Adamowski , J. Bremer , M. Delaney , R. Doubnik , D. Mladenov , D. Montanari , T. Nichols , A. Parchet , F. Resnati , I. Young

Photon detection system for ProtoDUNE dual phase

The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) is a 40-kton underground liquid argon time-projection-chamber (LAr TPC) detector, for long-baseline neutrino oscillation studies and for neutrino astrophysics and nucleon decay searches.…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-01-17 C. Cuesta

ArDM: a ton-scale LAr detector for direct Dark Matter searches

The Argon Dark Matter (ArDM-1t) experiment is a ton-scale liquid argon (LAr) double-phase time projection chamber designed for direct Dark Matter searches. Such a device allows to explore the low energy frontier in LAr with a charge imaging…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-05-20 ArDM Collaboration , A. Marchionni , C. Amsler , A. Badertscher , V. Boccone , A. Bueno , M. C. Carmona-Benitez , J. Coleman , W. Creus , A. Curioni , M. Daniel , E. J. Dawe , U. Degunda , A. Gendotti , L. Epprecht , S. Horikawa , L. Kaufmann , L. Knecht , M. Laffranchi , C. Lazzaro , P. K. Lightfoot , D. Lussi , J. Lozano , K. Mavrokoridis , A. Melgarejo , P. Mijakowski , G. Natterer , S. Navas-Concha , P. Otyugova , M. de Prado , P. Przewlocki , C. Regenfus , F. Resnati , M. Robinson , J. Rochet , L. Romero , E. Rondio , A. Rubbia , L. Scotto-Lavina , N. J. C. Spooner , T. Strauss , C. Touramanis , J. Ulbricht , T. Viant

The Argon Dark Matter Experiment

The ArDM experiment, a 1 ton liquid argon TPC/Calorimeter, is designed for the detection of dark matter particles which can scatter off the spinless argon nucleus, producing nuclear recoils. These events will be discerned by their light to…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2010-03-26 Christian Regenfus

Review of Liquid Argon Detector Technologies in the Neutrino Sector

Liquid Argon (LAr) is one of the most widely used scintillators in particle detection, due to its low cost, high availability and excellent scintillation properties. A large number of experiments in the neutrino sector are based around…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-03-12 Krishanu Majumdar , Konstantinos Mavrokoridis

Performance study of a $3\times1\times1\mbox{ m}^3$ dual phase liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber exposed to cosmic rays

We report the results of the analyses of the cosmic ray data collected with a 4 tonne (3$\times$1$\times$1~m$^3$) active mass (volume) Liquid Argon Time-Projection Chamber (TPC) operated in a dual-phase mode. We present a detailed study of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-04-19 WA105 collaboration

Conceptual design of a scalable multi-kton superconducting magnetized liquid Argon TPC

We discuss the possibility of new generation neutrino and astroparticle physics experiments exploiting a superconducting magnetized liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (LAr TPC). The possibility to complement the features of the LAr TPC…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 A. Ereditato , A. Rubbia

ARIADNE -- A Novel Optical LArTPC: Technical Design Report and Initial Characterisation using a Secondary Beam from the CERN PS and Cosmic Muons

ARIADNE is a 1-ton (330 kg fiducial mass) dual-phase liquid argon (LAr) time projection chamber (TPC) featuring a novel optical readout. Four electron-multiplying charge-coupled device (EMCCD) cameras are mounted externally, and these…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-03-04 D. Hollywood , K. Majumdar , K. Mavrokoridis , K. J. McCormick , B. Philippou , S. Powell , A. Roberts , N. A. Smith , G. Stavrakis , C. Touramanis , J. Vann

The optical simulation model of the DarkSide-20k Veto detector

DarkSide-20k is a rare-event search experiment aimed at finding signals of dark matter particles. It is a dual-phase detector that registers ionisation and scintillation signals originating from the particles interacting with the liquid…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-12-10 Cenk Türkoğlu , Sarthak Choudhary

Liquid-Argon Time Projection Chambers in the U.S

Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (LAr TPC) detectors are ideally suited for studying neutrino interactions and probing the parameters that characterize neutrino oscillations. The ability to drift ionization particles over long distances…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2010-02-04 M. Soderberg

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

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…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-05-17 20k Collaboration

The DarkSide Program at LNGS

DarkSide is a direct detection dark matter program based on two phase time projection chambers with depleted argon targets. The DarkSide detectors are designed, using novel low background techniques and active shielding, to be capable of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-13 Alex Wright

Nucleon Decay Searches with large Liquid Argon TPC Detectors at Shallow Depths: atmospheric neutrinos and cosmogenic backgrounds

Grand Unification of the strong, weak and electromagnetic interactions into a single unified gauge group is an extremely appealing idea which has been vigorously pursued theoretically and experimentally for many years. The detection of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-10-27 A. Bueno , Z. Dai , Y. Ge , M. Laffranchi , A. J. Melgarejo , A. Meregaglia , S. Navas , A. Rubbia

Status of ProtoDUNE Dual Phase

The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) is a dual-site experiment for long baseline neutrino oscillation studies, and for neutrino astrophysics and nucleon decay searches. DUNE will comprise four 10 kton fiducial liquid argon…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-10-23 C. Cuesta

DarkSide-50 532-day Dark Matter Search with Low-Radioactivity Argon

The DarkSide-50 direct-detection dark matter experiment is a dual-phase argon time projection chamber operating at Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso. This paper reports on the blind analysis of a (16,660+-270) kg d exposure using a target…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-21 The DarkSide Collaboration , P. Agnes , I. F. M. Albuquerque , T. Alexander , A. K. Alton , G. R. Araujo , M. Ave , H. O. Back , B. Baldin , G. Batignani , K. Biery , V. Bocci , G. Bonfini , W. Bonivento , B. Bottino , F. Budano , S. Bussino , M. Cadeddu , M. Cadoni , F. Calaprice , A. Caminata , N. Canci , A. Candela , M. Caravati , M. Cariello , M. Carlini , M. Carpinelli , S. Catalanotti , V. Cataudella , P. Cavalcante , S. Cavuoti , A. Chepurnov , C. Cicalò , A. G. Cocco , G. Covone , D. D'Angelo , M. D'Incecco , D. D'Urso , S. Davini , A. De Candia , S. De Cecco , M. De Deo , G. De Filippis , G. De Rosa , M. De Vincenzi , A. V. Derbin , A. Devoto , F. Di Eusanio , G. Di Pietro , C. Dionisi , M. Downing , E. Edkins , A. Empl , A. Fan , G. Fiorillo , R. S. Fitzpatrick , K. Fomenko , D. Franco , F. Gabriele , C. Galbiati , C. Ghiano , S. Giagu , C. Giganti , G. K. Giovanetti , O. Gorchakov , A. M. Goretti , F. Granato , M. Gromov , M. Guan , Y. Guardincerri , M. Gulino , B. R. Hackett , K. Herner , B. Hosseini , D. Hughes , P. Humble , E. V. Hungerford , An. Ianni , V. Ippolito , I. James , T. N. Johnson , K. Keeter , C. L. Kendziora , I. Kochanek , G. Koh , D. Korablev , G. Korga , A. Kubankin , M. Kuss , M. La Commara , M. Lai , X. Li , M. Lissia , G. Longo , Y. Ma , A. A. Machado , I. N. Machulin , A. Mandarano , L. Mapelli , S. M. Mari , J. Maricic , C. J. Martoff , A. Messina , P. D. Meyers , R. Milincic , A. Monte , M. Morrocchi , B. J. Mount , V. N. Muratova , P. Musico , A. Navrer Agasson , A. O. Nozdrina , A. Oleinik , M. Orsini , F. Ortica , L. Pagani , M. Pallavicini , L. Pandola , E. Pantic , E. Paoloni , K. Pelczar , N. Pelliccia , A. Pocar , S. Pordes , S. S. Poudel , D. A. Pugachev , H. Qian , F. Ragusa , M. Razeti , A. Razeto , B. Reinhold , A. L. Renshaw , M. Rescigno , Q. Riffard , A. Romani , B. Rossi , N. Rossi , D. Sablone , O. Samoylov , W. Sands , S. Sanfilippo , C. Savarese , B. Schlitzer , E. Segreto , D. A. Semenov , A. Shchagin , A. Sheshukov , P. N. Singh , M. D. Skorokhvatov , O. Smirnov , A. Sotnikov , C. Stanford , S. Stracka , Y. Suvorov , R. Tartaglia , G. Testera , A. Tonazzo , P. Trinchese , E. V. Unzhakov , M. Verducci , A. Vishneva , B. Vogelaar , M. Wada , T. J. Waldrop , H. Wang , Y. Wang , A. W. Watson , S. Westerdale , M. M. Wojcik , X. Xiang , X. Xiao , C. Yang , Z. Ye , C. Zhu , G. Zuzel

Cryogenic digital data links for the liquid argon time projection chamber

In this paper we present the cryogenic functionality of the components of data links for the Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (LArTPC), a potential far site detector technology of the Long-Baseline Neutrino Experiment (LBNE). We have…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-02-11 Tiankuan Liu , Datao Gong , Suen Hou , Chonghan Liu , Da-Shung Su , Ping-kun Teng , Annie C. Xiang , Jingbo Ye

The ArDM Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber at the Canfranc Underground Laboratory: a ton-scale detector for Dark Matter Searches

The Argon Dark Matter (ArDM) experiment consists of a liquid argon (LAr) time projection chamber (TPC) sensitive to nuclear recoils resulting from scattering of hypothetical Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) on argon targets.…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-03-24 ArDM Collaboration , J. Calvo , C. Cantini , P. Crivelli , M. Daniel , S. DiLuise , A. Gendotti , S. Horikawa , B. Montes , W. Mu , S. Murphy , G. Natterer , K. Ngyuen , L. Periale , Y. Quan , B. Radics , C. Regenfus , L. Romero , A. Rubbia , R. Santorelli , F. Sergiampietri , T. Viant , S. Wu

The ArgoNeuT experiment

The ArgoNeuT experiment features a 175 liter Liquid Argon (LAr) Time Projection Chamber (TPC) that was located upstream of the MINOS near detector in the NuMI neutrino beam at Fermilab. The project is part of the LAr TPC development program…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2011-10-04 Roxanne Guenette

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

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…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-06-21 P. Agnes , I. Ahmad , S. Albergo , I. F. M. Albuquerque , T. Alexander , A. K. Alton , P. Amaudruz , M. Atzori Corona , D. J. Auty , M. Ave , I. Ch. Avetisov , R. I. Avetisov , O. Azzolini , H. O. Back , Z. Balmforth , V. Barbarian , A. Barrado Olmedo , P. Barrillon , A. Basco , G. Batignani , E. Berzin , A. Bondar , W. M. Bonivento , E. Borisova , B. Bottino , M. G. Boulay , G. Buccino , S. Bussino , J. Busto , A. Buzulutskov , M. Cadeddu , M. Cadoni , A. Caminata , N. Canci , A. Capra , S. Caprioli , M. Caravati , M. Cárdenas-Montes , N. Cargioli , M. Carlini , P. Castello , V. Cataudella , P. Cavalcante , S. Cavuoti , S. Cebrian , J. M. Cela Ruiz , S. Chashin , A. Chepurnov , E Chyhyrynets , C. Cicalò , L. Cifarelli , D. Cintas , V. Cocco , E. Conde Vilda , L. Consiglio , S. Copello , G. Covone , S. Cross , P. Czudak , M. D'Aniello , S. D'Auria , M. D. Da Rocha Rolo , O. Dadoun , M. Daniel , S. Davini , A. De Candia , S. De Cecco , A. De Falco , G. De Filippis , D. De Gruttola , S. De Pasquale , G. De Rosa , G. Dellacasa , A. V. Derbin , A. Devoto , F. Di Capua , L. Di Noto , P. Di Stefano , C. Dionisi , G. Dolganov , F. Dordei , L. Doria , T. Erjavec , M. Fernandez Diaz , G. Fiorillo , A. Franceschi , P. Franchini , D. Franco , E. Frolov , N. Funicello , F. Gabriele , D. Gahan , C. Galbiati , G. Gallina , G. Gallus , M. Garbini , P. Garcia Abia , A. Gendotti , C. Ghiano , R. A. Giampaolo , C. Giganti , M. A. Giorgi , G. K. Giovanetti , V. Goicoechea Casanueva , A. Gola , D. Gorman , R. Graciani Diaz , G. Grauso , G. Grilli di Cortona , A. Grobov , M. Gromov , M. Guan , M. Guerzoni , M. Gulino , C. Guo , B. R. Hackett , J. B. Hall , A. L. Hallin , A. Hamer , H. Helton , M. Haranczyk , T. Hessel , S. Hill , S. Horikawa , F. Hubaut , T. Hugues , E. V. Hungerford , An. Ianni , V. Ippolito , C. Jillings , P. Kachru , A. A. Kemp , C. L. Kendziora , G. Keppel , A. V. Khomyakov , M. Kimura , I. Kochanek , K. Kondo , G. Korga , S. Koulosousas , A. Kubankin , M. Kuss , M. Kuźniak , M. La Commara , M. Lai , E. Le Guirriec , E. Leason , X. Li , L. Lidey , J. Lipp , M. Lissia , G. Longo , L. Luzzi , O. Macfadyen , I. N. Machulin , I. Manthos , L. Mapelli , A. Margotti , S. M. Mari , C. Mariani , J. Maricic , A. Marini , M. Martínez , C. J. Martoff , A. Masoni , K. Mavrokoridis , A. Mazzi , A. B. McDonald , A. Messina , R. Milincic , A. Moggi , A. Moharana , J. Monroe , M. Morrocchi , E. N. Mozhevitina , T. Mróz , V. N. Muratova , C. Muscas , P. Musico , R. Nania , T. Napolitano , M. Nessi , G. Nieradka , K. Nikolopoulos , I. Nikulin , J. Nowak , K. Olchansky , A. Oleinik , V. Oleynikov , P. Organtini , A. Ortiz de Solórzano , L. Pagani , M. Pallavicini , L. Pandola , E. Pantic , E. Paoloni , G. Paternoster , P. A. Pegoraro , K. Pelczar , C. Pellegrino , F. Perotti , V. Pesudo , S. Piacentini , F. Pietropaolo , N. Pino , C. Pira , A. Pocar , D. M. Poehlmann , S. Pordes , P. Pralavorio , D. Price , F. Raffaelli , F. Ragusa , Y. Ramachers , A. Ramirez , M. Razeti , A. Razeto , A. L. Renshaw , M. Rescigno , F. Resnati , F. Retiere , L. P. Rignanese , C. Ripoli , A. Rivetti , A. Roberts , C. Roberts , J. Rode , G. Rogers , L. Romero , M. Rossi , A. Rubbia , S. Sadashivajois , T. R. Saffold , O. Samoylov , E. Sandford , S. Sanfilippo , D. Santone , R. Santorelli , C. Savarese , E. Scapparone , G. Scioli , D. A. Semenov , A. Shchagin , A. Sheshukov , M. Simeone , P. Skensved , M. D. Skorokhvatov , O. Smirnov , T. Smirnova , B. Smith , A. Sokolov , M. Spangenberg , R. Stefanizzi , A. Steri , S. Stracka , V. Strickland , M. Stringer , S. Sulis , A. Sung , Y. Suvorov , A. M. Szelc , C. Türkoğ , R. Tartaglia , A. Taylor , J. Taylor , S. Tedesco , G. Testera , K. Thieme , T. N. Thorpe , A. Tonazzo , S. Torres-Lara , A. Tricomi , E. V. Unzhakov , T. Vallivilayil John , M. Van Uffelen , T. Viant , S. Viel , A. Vishneva , R. B. Vogelaar , J. Vossebeld , M. Wada , M. B. Walczak , Y. Wang , S. Westerdale , R. J. Wheadon , L. Williams , I. Wingerter-Seez , R. Wojaczyński , Ma. M. Wojcik , Ma. Wojcik , T. Wright , Y. Xie , C. Yang , A. Zabihi , P. Zakhary , A. Zani , A. Zichichi , G. Zuzel , M. P. Zykova

Stable operation with gain of a double phase Liquid Argon LEM-TPC with a 1 mm thick segmented LEM

In this paper we present results from a test of a small Liquid Argon Large Electron Multiplier Time Projection Chamber (LAr LEM-TPC). This detector concept provides a 3D-tracking and calorimetric device capable of charge amplification,…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2011-07-28 A. Badertscher , A. Curioni , S. Horikawa , L. Knecht , D. Lussi , A. Marchionni , G. Natterer , F. Resnati , A. Rubbia , T. Viant