Enhancing the light yield of He:CF $$_4$$ 4 based gaseous detector
Abstract The CYGNO experiment aims to build a large ( $$\mathcal {O}(10)$$ O ( 10 ) m $$^3$$ 3 ) directional detector for rare event searches, such as nuclear recoils (NRs) induced by dark matter (DM), such as weakly interactive massive particles (WIMPs). The detector concept comprises a time projec...
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| author | Fernando Domingues Amaro Rita Antonietti Elisabetta Baracchini Luigi Benussi Stefano Bianco Roberto Campagnola Cesidio Capoccia Michele Caponero Danilo Santos Cardoso Luan Gomes Mattosinhos de Carvalho Gianluca Cavoto Igor Abritta Costa Antonio Croce Emiliano Dané Giorgio Dho Flaminia Di Giambattista Emanuele Di Marco Melba D’Astolfo Giulia D’Imperio Davide Fiorina Francesco Iacoangeli Zahoor ul Islam Herman Pessoa Lima Jùnior Ernesto Kemp Giovanni Maccarrone Rui Daniel Passos Mano Robert Renz Marcelo Gregorio David José Gaspar Marques Giovanni Mazzitelli Alasdair Gregor McLean Andrea Messina Pietro Meloni Cristina Maria Bernardes Monteiro Rafael Antunes Nobrega Igor Fonseca Pains Emiliano Paoletti Luciano Passamonti Fabrizio Petrucci Stefano Piacentini Davide Piccolo Daniele Pierluigi Davide Pinci Atul Prajapati Francesco Renga Rita Joana da Cruz Roque Filippo Rosatelli Alessandro Russo Joaquim Marques Ferreira dos Santos Giovanna Saviano Pedro Alberto Oliveira Costa Silva Neil John Curwen Spooner Roberto Tesauro Sandro Tomassini Samuele Torelli |
| author_facet | Fernando Domingues Amaro Rita Antonietti Elisabetta Baracchini Luigi Benussi Stefano Bianco Roberto Campagnola Cesidio Capoccia Michele Caponero Danilo Santos Cardoso Luan Gomes Mattosinhos de Carvalho Gianluca Cavoto Igor Abritta Costa Antonio Croce Emiliano Dané Giorgio Dho Flaminia Di Giambattista Emanuele Di Marco Melba D’Astolfo Giulia D’Imperio Davide Fiorina Francesco Iacoangeli Zahoor ul Islam Herman Pessoa Lima Jùnior Ernesto Kemp Giovanni Maccarrone Rui Daniel Passos Mano Robert Renz Marcelo Gregorio David José Gaspar Marques Giovanni Mazzitelli Alasdair Gregor McLean Andrea Messina Pietro Meloni Cristina Maria Bernardes Monteiro Rafael Antunes Nobrega Igor Fonseca Pains Emiliano Paoletti Luciano Passamonti Fabrizio Petrucci Stefano Piacentini Davide Piccolo Daniele Pierluigi Davide Pinci Atul Prajapati Francesco Renga Rita Joana da Cruz Roque Filippo Rosatelli Alessandro Russo Joaquim Marques Ferreira dos Santos Giovanna Saviano Pedro Alberto Oliveira Costa Silva Neil John Curwen Spooner Roberto Tesauro Sandro Tomassini Samuele Torelli |
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| description | Abstract The CYGNO experiment aims to build a large ( $$\mathcal {O}(10)$$ O ( 10 ) m $$^3$$ 3 ) directional detector for rare event searches, such as nuclear recoils (NRs) induced by dark matter (DM), such as weakly interactive massive particles (WIMPs). The detector concept comprises a time projection chamber (TPC), filled with a He:CF $$_4$$ 4 60/40 scintillating gas mixture at room temperature and atmospheric pressure, equipped with an amplification stage made of a stack of three gas electron multipliers (GEMs) which are coupled to an optical readout. The latter consists in scientific CMOS (sCMOS) cameras and photomultipliers tubes (PMTs). The maximisation of the light yield of the amplification stage plays a major role in the determination of the energy threshold of the experiment. In this paper, we simulate the effect of the addition of a strong electric field below the last GEM plane on the GEM field structure and we experimentally test it by means of a 10 $$\times $$ × 10 cm $$^2$$ 2 readout area prototype. The experimental measurements analyse stacks of different GEMs and helium concentrations in the gas mixture combined with this extra electric field, studying their performances in terms of light yield, energy resolution and intrinsic diffusion. It is found that the use of this additional electric field permits large light yield increases without degrading intrinsic characteristics of the amplification stage with respect to the regular use of GEMs. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-a865bbe73a734751a7e917be9354fbc12024-12-08T12:43:18ZengSpringerOpenEuropean Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields1434-60522024-10-01841012110.1140/epjc/s10052-024-13471-5Enhancing the light yield of He:CF $$_4$$ 4 based gaseous detectorFernando Domingues Amaro0Rita Antonietti1Elisabetta Baracchini2Luigi Benussi3Stefano Bianco4Roberto Campagnola5Cesidio Capoccia6Michele Caponero7Danilo Santos Cardoso8Luan Gomes Mattosinhos de Carvalho9Gianluca Cavoto10Igor Abritta Costa11Antonio Croce12Emiliano Dané13Giorgio Dho14Flaminia Di Giambattista15Emanuele Di Marco16Melba D’Astolfo17Giulia D’Imperio18Davide Fiorina19Francesco Iacoangeli20Zahoor ul Islam21Herman Pessoa Lima Jùnior22Ernesto Kemp23Giovanni Maccarrone24Rui Daniel Passos Mano25Robert Renz Marcelo Gregorio26David José Gaspar Marques27Giovanni Mazzitelli28Alasdair Gregor McLean29Andrea Messina30Pietro Meloni31Cristina Maria Bernardes Monteiro32Rafael Antunes Nobrega33Igor Fonseca Pains34Emiliano Paoletti35Luciano Passamonti36Fabrizio Petrucci37Stefano Piacentini38Davide Piccolo39Daniele Pierluigi40Davide Pinci41Atul Prajapati42Francesco Renga43Rita Joana da Cruz Roque44Filippo Rosatelli45Alessandro Russo46Joaquim Marques Ferreira dos Santos47Giovanna Saviano48Pedro Alberto Oliveira Costa Silva49Neil John Curwen Spooner50Roberto Tesauro51Sandro Tomassini52Samuele Torelli53LIBPhys, Department of Physics, University of CoimbraDipartimento di Matematica e Fisica, Università Roma TREGran Sasso Science InstituteLaboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica NucleareLaboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica NucleareLaboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica NucleareLaboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica NucleareLaboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica NucleareCentro Brasileiro de Pesquisas FísicasFaculdade de Engenharia, Universidade Federal de Juiz de ForaDipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di RomaLaboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica NucleareLaboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica NucleareLaboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica NucleareGran Sasso Science InstituteGran Sasso Science InstituteIstituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di RomaGran Sasso Science InstituteIstituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di RomaGran Sasso Science InstituteIstituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di RomaGran Sasso Science InstituteGran Sasso Science InstituteUniversidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP)Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica NucleareLIBPhys, Department of Physics, University of CoimbraDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, University of SheffieldGran Sasso Science InstituteLaboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica NucleareDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, University of SheffieldDipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di RomaDipartimento di Matematica e Fisica, Università Roma TRELIBPhys, Department of Physics, University of CoimbraFaculdade de Engenharia, Universidade Federal de Juiz de ForaFaculdade de Engenharia, Universidade Federal de Juiz de ForaLaboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica NucleareLaboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica NucleareDipartimento di Matematica e Fisica, Università Roma TREGran Sasso Science InstituteLaboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica NucleareLaboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica NucleareIstituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di RomaGran Sasso Science InstituteIstituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di RomaLIBPhys, Department of Physics, University of CoimbraLaboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica NucleareLaboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica NucleareLIBPhys, Department of Physics, University of CoimbraLaboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica NucleareLIBPhys, Department of Physics, University of CoimbraDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, University of SheffieldLaboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica NucleareLaboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica NucleareGran Sasso Science InstituteAbstract The CYGNO experiment aims to build a large ( $$\mathcal {O}(10)$$ O ( 10 ) m $$^3$$ 3 ) directional detector for rare event searches, such as nuclear recoils (NRs) induced by dark matter (DM), such as weakly interactive massive particles (WIMPs). The detector concept comprises a time projection chamber (TPC), filled with a He:CF $$_4$$ 4 60/40 scintillating gas mixture at room temperature and atmospheric pressure, equipped with an amplification stage made of a stack of three gas electron multipliers (GEMs) which are coupled to an optical readout. The latter consists in scientific CMOS (sCMOS) cameras and photomultipliers tubes (PMTs). The maximisation of the light yield of the amplification stage plays a major role in the determination of the energy threshold of the experiment. In this paper, we simulate the effect of the addition of a strong electric field below the last GEM plane on the GEM field structure and we experimentally test it by means of a 10 $$\times $$ × 10 cm $$^2$$ 2 readout area prototype. The experimental measurements analyse stacks of different GEMs and helium concentrations in the gas mixture combined with this extra electric field, studying their performances in terms of light yield, energy resolution and intrinsic diffusion. It is found that the use of this additional electric field permits large light yield increases without degrading intrinsic characteristics of the amplification stage with respect to the regular use of GEMs.https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-024-13471-5 |
| spellingShingle | Fernando Domingues Amaro Rita Antonietti Elisabetta Baracchini Luigi Benussi Stefano Bianco Roberto Campagnola Cesidio Capoccia Michele Caponero Danilo Santos Cardoso Luan Gomes Mattosinhos de Carvalho Gianluca Cavoto Igor Abritta Costa Antonio Croce Emiliano Dané Giorgio Dho Flaminia Di Giambattista Emanuele Di Marco Melba D’Astolfo Giulia D’Imperio Davide Fiorina Francesco Iacoangeli Zahoor ul Islam Herman Pessoa Lima Jùnior Ernesto Kemp Giovanni Maccarrone Rui Daniel Passos Mano Robert Renz Marcelo Gregorio David José Gaspar Marques Giovanni Mazzitelli Alasdair Gregor McLean Andrea Messina Pietro Meloni Cristina Maria Bernardes Monteiro Rafael Antunes Nobrega Igor Fonseca Pains Emiliano Paoletti Luciano Passamonti Fabrizio Petrucci Stefano Piacentini Davide Piccolo Daniele Pierluigi Davide Pinci Atul Prajapati Francesco Renga Rita Joana da Cruz Roque Filippo Rosatelli Alessandro Russo Joaquim Marques Ferreira dos Santos Giovanna Saviano Pedro Alberto Oliveira Costa Silva Neil John Curwen Spooner Roberto Tesauro Sandro Tomassini Samuele Torelli Enhancing the light yield of He:CF $$_4$$ 4 based gaseous detector European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields |
| title | Enhancing the light yield of He:CF $$_4$$ 4 based gaseous detector |
| title_full | Enhancing the light yield of He:CF $$_4$$ 4 based gaseous detector |
| title_fullStr | Enhancing the light yield of He:CF $$_4$$ 4 based gaseous detector |
| title_full_unstemmed | Enhancing the light yield of He:CF $$_4$$ 4 based gaseous detector |
| title_short | Enhancing the light yield of He:CF $$_4$$ 4 based gaseous detector |
| title_sort | enhancing the light yield of he cf 4 4 based gaseous detector |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-024-13471-5 |
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