Dr Kevin Thieme: Publications

Demonstration of the light collection stability of a PEN-based wavelength shifting reflector in a tonne scale liquid argon detector

ArXiv 2411.17934 (2024)

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V Gupta, GR Araujo, M Babicz, L Baudis, P-J Chiu, S Choudhary, M Goldbrunner, A Hamer, M Kuźniak, M Kuźwa, A Leonhardt, E Montagna, G Nieradka, HB Parkinson, F Pietropaolo, TR Pollmann, F Resnati, S Schönert, AM Szelc, K Thieme, M Walczak

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

Journal of Instrumentation IOP Publishing 19:09 (2024) P09021

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F Acerbi, P Adhikari, P Agnes, I Ahmad, S Albergo, IF Albuquerque, T Alexander, AK Alton, P Amaudruz, M Angiolilli, E Aprile, R Ardito, M Atzori Corona, DJ Auty, M Ave, IC Avetisov, O Azzolini, HO Back, Z Balmforth, A Barrado Olmedo, P Barrillon, G Batignani, P Bhowmick, V Bocci

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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.

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

ArXiv 2408.14071 (2024)

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

Constraints on directionality effect of nuclear recoils in a liquid argon time projection chamber

The European Physical Journal C SpringerOpen 84:1 (2024) 24

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P Agnes, I Ahmad, S Albergo, IFM Albuquerque, T Alexander, AK Alton, P Amaudruz, M Atzori Corona, M Ave, I Ch Avetisov, O Azzolini, HO Back, Z Balmforth, A Barrado-Olmedo, P Barrillon, A Basco, G Batignani, V Bocci, WM Bonivento, B Bottino, MG Boulay, J Busto, M Cadeddu, A Caminata, N Canci, G Cappello, A Capra, S Caprioli, M Caravati, N Cargioli, M Carlini, P Castello, V Cataudella, P Cavalcante, S Cavuoti, S Cebrian, JM Cela Ruiz, S Chashin, A Chepurnov, E Chyhyrynets, L Cifarelli, D Cintas, M Citterio, B Cleveland, V Cocco, E Conde Vilda, L Consiglio, S Copello, G Covone, M Czubak

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Erratum to: Sensitivity of the DARWIN observatory to the neutrinoless double beta decay of 136Xe

European Physical Journal C Springer Nature 83:11 (2023) 996

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F Agostini, SEM Ahmed Maouloud, L Althueser, F Amaro, B Antunovic, E Aprile, L Baudis, D Baur, Y Biondi, A Bismark, PA Breur, A Brown, G Bruno, R Budnik, C Capelli, J Cardoso, D Cichon, M Clark, AP Colijn, JJ Cuenca-García, JP Cussonneau, MP Decowski, A Depoian, J Dierle, P Di Gangi, A Di Giovanni, S Diglio, JMF dos Santos, G Drexlin, K Eitel, R Engel, AD Ferella, H Fischer, M Galloway, F Gao, F Girard, F Glück, L Grandi, R Größle, R Gumbsheimer, S Hansmann-Menzemer, F Jörg, G Khundzakishvili, A Kopec, F Kuger, LM Krauss, H Landsman, RF Lang, S Lindemann, M Lindner, JAM Lopes, A Loya Villalpando, C Macolino, A Manfredini, T Marrodán Undagoitia, J Masbou, E Masson, P Meinhardt, S Milutinovic, A Molinario, CMB Monteiro, M Murra, UG Oberlack, M Pandurovic, R Peres, J Pienaar, M Pierre, V Pizzella, J Qin, D Ramírez García, S Reichard, N Rupp, P Sanchez-Lucas, G Sartorelli, D Schulte, M Schumann, L Scotto Lavina, M Selvi, M Silva, H Simgen, M Steidl, A Terliuk, C Therreau, D Thers, K Thieme, R Trotta, CD Tunnell, K Valerius, G Volta, D Vorkapic, C Weinheimer, C Wittweg, J Wolf, JP Zopounidis, K Zuber

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Demonstration of the light collection stability of a PEN-based wavelength shifting reflector in a tonne scale liquid argon detector

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

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

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Constraints on directionality effect of nuclear recoils in a liquid argon time projection chamber

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