The CYGNO Experiment

• DOI: 10.3390/instruments6010006
• Publication Date: 2022-01-21T13:37:18Z
• Authors: Fernando Domingue...; Elisabetta Baracc...; Luigi Benussi; Stefano Bianco; Cesidio Capoccia; Michele Caponero; Danilo Santos Car...; Gianluca Cavoto; André Cortez; Igor Abritta Costa; Rita Joanna da Cr...; Emiliano Dané; Giorgio Dho; Flaminia Di Giamb...; Emanuele Di Marco; Giovanni Grilli d...; Giulia D’Imperio; Francesco Iacoangeli; Herman Pessoa Lim...; Guilherme Sebasti...; Amaro da Silva Lo...; Giovanni Maccarrone; Rui Daniel Passos...; Michela Marafini; Robert Renz Marce...; David José Gaspar...; Giovanni Mazzitelli; Alasdair Gregor M...; Andrea Messina; Cristina Maria Be...; Rafael Antunes No...; Igor Fonseca Pains; Emiliano Paoletti; Luciano Passamonti; Sandro Pelosi; Fabrizio Petrucci; Stefano Piacentini; Davide Piccolo; Daniele Pierluigi; Davide Pinci; Atul Prajapati; Francesco Renga; Filippo Rosatelli; Alessandro Russo; Joaquim Marques F...; Giovanna Saviano; Neil John Curwen ...; Roberto Tesauro; Sandro Tomassini; Samuele Torelli
• Keywords: dark matter; time projection chamber; optical readout; optical readout; Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors; Physics; QC1-999; dark matter; directionality; time projection chamber, CMOS camera; FOS: Physical sciences; QC770-798; Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det); 7. Clean energy; 01 natural sciences; dark matter; time projection chamber; High Energy Physics - Experiment; High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex); Time projection chamber; Nuclear and particle physics. Atomic energy. Radioactivity; 0103 physical sciences; Dark matter; Dark matter; Optical readout; Time projection chamber; Optical readout

The search for a novel technology able to detect and reconstruct nuclear electron recoil events with the energy of few keV has become more important now that large regions high-mass dark matter (DM) candidates have been excluded. Moreover, detector sensitive incoming particle direction will be crucial in case DM discovery open possibility studying its properties. Gaseous time projection chambers (TPC) optical readout are very promising detectors combining detailed event information provided by TPC technique high sensitivity granularity latest-generation scientific light sensors. CYGNO experiment (a CYGNus module Optical readout) aims exploit approach multiple-GEM structures volume TPCs study rare as interactions low-mass or solar neutrinos. combined use high-granularity sCMOS cameras fast sensors allows reconstruction 3D tracks, offering good resolution range, together identification useful distinguishing recoils from electronic recoils. This is part CYGNUS proto-collaboration, which at constructing network underground observatories directional search. A one cubic meter demonstrator expected built 2022/23 aiming larger scale apparatus (30 m$^3$--100 m$^3$) later stage.