Proto-0: a prototype for validating key technologies of the DarkSide-20k experiment and beyond
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| author | de Asmundis, Riccardo Calabrese, Roberta Caravati, Mauro Fiorillo, Giuliana Flores, Leandro Grauso, Gianfrancesco Matteucci, Giuseppe Pino, Noemi Rudik, Dmitrii Sabia, Maria Adriana Suvorov, Yury |
| author_facet | de Asmundis, Riccardo Calabrese, Roberta Caravati, Mauro Fiorillo, Giuliana Flores, Leandro Grauso, Gianfrancesco Matteucci, Giuseppe Pino, Noemi Rudik, Dmitrii Sabia, Maria Adriana Suvorov, Yury |
| contents | The DarkSide-20k experiment, currently under construction at LNGS, will employ a next-generation dual-phase liquid-argon Time Projection Chamber (TPC) with SiPM-based Photon Detector Units and low-background materials to achieve the ambitious goal of operating with an instrumental background close to zero. Proto-0 is a small-scale dual-phase argon TPC operated at INFN Naples, designed to validate the integration of DarkSide-20k key technologies in a realistic detector environment and to study charge extraction and electroluminescence signal formation. In this short paper we report on the early operation of Proto-0 and its single-phase commissioning. We focus on the measurement of the scintillation light yield using external and internal calibration sources. |
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| spellingShingle | Proto-0: a prototype for validating key technologies of the DarkSide-20k experiment and beyond de Asmundis, Riccardo Calabrese, Roberta Caravati, Mauro Fiorillo, Giuliana Flores, Leandro Grauso, Gianfrancesco Matteucci, Giuseppe Pino, Noemi Rudik, Dmitrii Sabia, Maria Adriana Suvorov, Yury Instrumentation and Detectors High Energy Physics - Experiment The DarkSide-20k experiment, currently under construction at LNGS, will employ a next-generation dual-phase liquid-argon Time Projection Chamber (TPC) with SiPM-based Photon Detector Units and low-background materials to achieve the ambitious goal of operating with an instrumental background close to zero. Proto-0 is a small-scale dual-phase argon TPC operated at INFN Naples, designed to validate the integration of DarkSide-20k key technologies in a realistic detector environment and to study charge extraction and electroluminescence signal formation. In this short paper we report on the early operation of Proto-0 and its single-phase commissioning. We focus on the measurement of the scintillation light yield using external and internal calibration sources. |
| title | Proto-0: a prototype for validating key technologies of the DarkSide-20k experiment and beyond |
| topic | Instrumentation and Detectors High Energy Physics - Experiment |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.06347 |