Dr Kevin Thieme: Publications

51�� of cosmogenic activation above ground for the DarkSide-20k experiment

Astroparticle Physics Elsevier 152 (2023) 102878

Authors:

A Elersich, 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, A Capra, S Caprioli, M Caravati, N Cargioli, M Carlini, P Castello, 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, D Colaiuda, E Conde Vilda, L Consiglio, S Copello, G Covone, M Czubak, M D’Aniello, S D’Auria, MD Da Rocha Rolo, S Davini, S De Cecco, D De Gruttola, S De Pasquale, G De Rosa, G Dellacasa, AV Derbin, A Devoto, F Di Capua, L Di Noto, P Di Stefano, G Dolganov, F Dordei, E Ellingwood, T Erjavec, M Fernandez Diaz, G Fiorillo, P Franchini, D Franco, N Funicello, F Gabriele, D Gahan, C Galbiati, G Gallina, G Gallus, M Garbini, P Garcia Abia, A Gendotti, C Ghiano, C Giganti, GK Giovanetti, V Goicoechea Casanueva, A Gola, G Grauso, G Grilli di Cortona, A Grobov, M Gromov, M Guan, M Guerzoni, M Gulino, C Guo, BR Hackett, AL Hallin, A Hamer, M Haranczyk, T Hessel, S Hill, S Horikawa, F Hubaut, J Hucker, T Hugues, An Ianni, V Ippolito, C Jillings, S Jois, P Kachru, AA Kemp, CL Kendziora, M Kimura, I Kochanek, K Kondo, G Korga, S Koulosousas, A Kubankin, M Kuss, M Kuzniak, 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 Margotti, SM Mari, C Mariani, J Maricic, A Marini, M Martínez, CJ Martoff, G Matteucci, K Mavrokoridis, AB McDonald, A Messina, R Milincic, A Mitra, A Moharana, J Monroe, E Moretti, M Morrocchi, T Mróz, VN Muratova, C Muscas, P Musico, R Nania, M Nessi, G Nieradka, K Nikolopoulos, 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, PA Pegoraro, K Pelczar, C Pellegrino, V Pesudo, S Piacentini, L Pietrofaccia, N Pino, A Pocar, DM Poehlmann, S Pordes, P Pralavorio, D Price, F Ragusa, Y Ramachers, M Razeti, AL Renshaw, M Rescigno, F Retiere, LP Rignanese, C Ripoli, A Rivetti, A Roberts, C Roberts, J Rode, G Rogers, L Romero, M Rossi, A Rubbia, MA Sabia, P Salomone, E Sandford, S Sanfilippo, D Santone, R Santorelli, C Savarese, E Scapparone, G Schillaci, FG Schuckman, G Scioli, M Simeone, P Skensved, MD Skorokhvatov, O Smirnov, T Smirnova, B Smith, F Spadoni, M Spangenberg, R Stefanizzi, A Steri, V Stornelli, S Stracka, M Stringer, S Sulis, A Sung, Y Suvorov, AM Szelc, R Tartaglia, A Taylor, J Taylor, S Tedesco, G Testera, K Thieme, TN Thorpe, A Tonazzo, A Tricomi, EV Unzhakov, T Vallivilayil John, M Van Uffelen, T Viant, S Viel, RB Vogelaar, J Vossebeld, M Wada, MB Walczak, H Wang, Y Wang, S Westerdale, L Williams, I Wingerter-Seez, R Wojaczynski, Ma M Wojcik, T Wright, Y Xie, C Yang, A Zabihi, P Zakhary, A Zani, A Zichichi, G Zuzel, MP Zykova, The DarkSide-20k Collaboration

Electron transport measurements in liquid xenon with Xenoscope, a large-scale DARWIN demonstrator

The European Physical Journal C SpringerOpen 83:8 (2023) 717

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L Baudis, Y Biondi, A Bismark, AP Cimental Chávez, JJ Cuenca-García, J Franchi, M Galloway, F Girard, R Peres, D Ramírez García, P Sanchez-Lucas, K Thieme, C Wittweg

Abstract:

The DARWIN/XLZD experiment is a next-generation dark matter detector with a multi-ten-ton liquid xenon time projection chamber at its core. Its principal goal will be to explore the experimentally accessible parameter space for Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) in a wide mass-range, until interactions of astrophysical neutrinos will become an irreducible background. The prompt scintillation light and the charge signals induced by particle interactions in the liquid xenon target will be observed by VUV-sensitive, ultra-low background photosensors. Besides its excellent sensitivity to WIMPs with masses above $\sim$5\,GeV, such a detector with its large mass, low-energy threshold and ultra-low background level will also be sensitive to other rare interactions, and in particular also to bosonic dark matter candidates with masses at the keV-scale. We present the detector concept, discuss the main sources of backgrounds, the technological challenges and some of the ongoing detector design and R&D efforts, as well as the large-scale demonstrators. We end by discussing the sensitivity to particle dark matter interactions.Comment: 7 pages, 10 figures. Accepted to appear in Nuc. Phys. B special issue "Nobel Symposium on Dark Matter" (NS 182

Directionality of nuclear recoils in a liquid argon time projection chamber

ArXiv 2307.15454 (2023)

Authors:

The DarkSide-20k Collaboration, 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, M D'Aniello, S D'Auria, MD Da Rocha Rolo, S Davini, A de Candia, S De Cecco, D De Gruttola, G De Filippis, D Dell'Aquila, S De Pasquale, G De Rosa, G Dellacasa, AV Derbin, A Devoto, F Di Capua, L Di Noto, C Dionisi, P Di Stefano, G Dolganov, F Dordei, A Elersich, E Ellingwood, T Erjavec, M Fernandez Diaz, G Fiorillo, P Franchini, D Franco, N Funicello, F Gabriele, D Gahan, C Galbiati, G Gallina, G Gallus, M Garbini, P Garcia Abia, A Gendotti, C Ghiano, C Giganti, GK Giovanetti, V Goicoechea Casanueva, A Gola, G Grauso, G Grilli di Cortona, A Grobov, M Gromov, M Guan, M Guerzoni, M Gulino, C Guo, BR Hackett, AL Hallin, A Hamer, M Haranczyk, T Hessel, S Hill, S Horikawa, F Hubaut, J Hucker, T Hugues, An Ianni, V Ippolito, C Jillings, S Jois, P Kachru, N Kemmerich, AA Kemp, CL Kendziora, M Kimura, I Kochanek, K Kondo, G Korga, S Koulosousas, A Kubankin, M Kuss, M Kuzniak, M La Commara, M Lai, E Le Guirriec, E Leason, A Leoni, X Li, L Lidey, M Lissia, L Luzzi, O Lychagina, O Macfadyen, IN Machulin, S Manecki, I Manthos, L Mapelli, A Margotti, SM Marik, C Mariani, J Maricic, A Marini, M Martínez, CJ Martoff, G Matteucci, K Mavrokoridis, AB McDonald, A Messina, R Milincic, A Mitra, A Moharana, J Monroe, E Moretti, M Morrocchi, T Mróz, VN Muratova, C Muscas, P Musico, R Nania, M Nessi, G Nieradka, K Nikolopoulos, 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, PA Pegoraro, K Pelczar, V Pesudo, S Piacentini, N Pino, A Pocar, DM Poehlmann, S Pordes, P Pralavorio, D Price, F Ragusa, Y Ramachers, M Razeti, AL Renshaw, M Rescigno, F Retiere, LP Rignanese, C Ripoli, A Rivetti, A Roberts, C Roberts, J Rode, G Rogers, L Romero, M Rossi, A Rubbia, MA Sabia, P Salomone, E Sandford, S Sanfilippo, D Santone, R Santorelli, C Savarese, E Scapparone, G Schillaci, FG Schuckman, G Scioli, M Simeone, P Skensved, MD Skorokhvatov, O Smirnov, T Smirnova, B Smith, A Sosa, F Spadoni, M Spangenberg, R Stefanizzi, A Steri, V Stornelli, S Stracka, M Stringer, S Sulis, A Sung, Y Suvorov, AM Szelc, R Tartaglia, A Taylor, J Taylor, S Tedesco, G Testera, K Thieme, TN Thorpe, A Tonazzo, A Tricomi, EV Unzhakov, T Vallivilayil John, M Van Uffelen, T Viant, S Viel, RB Vogelaar, J Vossebeld, M Wada, MB Walczak, H Wang, Y Wang, S Westerdale, L Williams, I Wingerter-Seez, R Wojaczynski, Ma M Wojcik, T Wright, Y Xie, C Yang, A Zabihi, P Zakhary, A Zani, A Zichichi, G Zuzel, MP Zykova

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

Physical Review D American Physical Society (APS) 107:11 (2023) 112006

Authors:

P Agnes, I Ahmad, S Albergo, IFM Albuquerque, T Alexander, AK Alton, P Amaudruz, M Atzori Corona, DJ Auty, M Ave, I Ch Avetisov, RI Avetisov, O Azzolini, HO Back, Z Balmforth, V Barbarian, A Barrado Olmedo, P Barrillon, A Basco, G Batignani, E Berzin, A Bondar, WM Bonivento, E Borisova, B Bottino, MG 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, JM 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, M Czubak, M D’Aniello, S D’Auria, MD 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, AV 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, RA Giampaolo, C Giganti, MA Giorgi, GK 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, BR Hackett, JB Hall, AL Hallin, A Hamer, H Helton, M Haranczyk, T Hessel, S Hill, S Horikawa, F Hubaut, T Hugues, EV Hungerford, An Ianni, V Ippolito, C Jillings, P Kachru, AA Kemp, CL Kendziora, G Keppel, AV 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, IN Machulin, I Manthos, L Mapelli, A Margotti, SM Mari, C Mariani, J Maricic, A Marini, M Martínez, CJ Martoff, A Masoni, K Mavrokoridis, A Mazzi, AB McDonald, A Messina, R Milincic, A Moggi, A Moharana, J Monroe, M Morrocchi, EN Mozhevitina, T Mróz, VN 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, PA Pegoraro, K Pelczar, C Pellegrino, F Perotti, V Pesudo, S Piacentini, F Pietropaolo, N Pino, C Pira, A Pocar, DM Poehlmann, S Pordes, P Pralavorio, D Price, F Raffaelli, F Ragusa, Y Ramachers, A Ramirez, M Razeti, A Razeto, AL Renshaw, M Rescigno, F Resnati, F Retiere, LP Rignanese, C Ripoli, A Rivetti, A Roberts, C Roberts, J Rode, G Rogers, L Romero, M Rossi, A Rubbia, S Sadashivajois, TR Saffold, O Samoylov, E Sandford, S Sanfilippo, D Santone, R Santorelli, C Savarese, E Scapparone, G Scioli, DA Semenov, A Shchagin, A Sheshukov, M Simeone, P Skensved, MD 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, AM Szelc, C Türkoğlu, R Tartaglia, A Taylor, J Taylor, S Tedesco, G Testera, K Thieme, TN Thorpe, A Tonazzo, S Torres-Lara, A Tricomi, EV Unzhakov, T Vallivilayil John, M Van Uffelen, T Viant, S Viel, A Vishneva, RB Vogelaar, J Vossebeld, M Wada, MB Walczak, Y Wang, S Westerdale, RJ 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, MP Zykova

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

The European Physical Journal C SpringerOpen 83:5 (2023) 453

Authors:

E Aaron, 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, P Barrillon, A Basco, G Batignani, V Bocci, WM Bonivento, B Bottino, MG Boulay, J Busto, M Cadeddu, A Caminata, N Canci, A Capra, S Caprioli, M Caravati, N Cargioli, M Carlini, P Castello, 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, M D’Aniello

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: 36Ar , 38Ar , and 40Ar . 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

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Electron transport measurements in liquid xenon with Xenoscope, a large-scale DARWIN demonstrator

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Directionality of nuclear recoils in a liquid argon time projection chamber

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

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

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Electron transport measurements in liquid xenon with Xenoscope, a large-scale DARWIN demonstrator

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Directionality of nuclear recoils in a liquid argon time projection chamber

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

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

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