Conveners
Liquid Detectors: Liquid Detectors
- Francesco Terranova (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
- Gioacchino Ranucci (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
- Marco Selvi (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
When extremely energetic neutrinos (E > $10^{19}$ eV) interact in a medium produce a thermo-acoustic process where the energy of generated particle cascades can be conveyed in a pressure pulse propagating into the same medium. The kilometric attenuation length as well as the well-defined shape of the expected pulse suggest a large-area-undersea-array of acoustic sensors as an ideal...
A great number of astrophysical observations point to the existence of an abundant form of matter interacting almost exclusively through gravity. A potential candidate is a weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP) produced in the early Universe. Thanks to its excellent ionization response and unique scintillation light characteristics, Liquid Argon (LAr) detectors can provide great...
One of the most dangerous background for Dark Matter and other rare event searches comes from neutrons generated by the radioactivity of the detector materials.
We recently designed, constructed and operated a neutron veto for the XENONnT experiment at LNGS, with the novel technique of a Gd-loaded water Cherenkov detector.
In this talk we will present the performances of the detector,...
Xenon double-phase TPCs have proven so far to be one of the best techniques for direct dark matter and other rare event search. The success of this technology has been demonstrated by many experiments in the last two decades, the most recent example being the results of XENONnT and LZ presented in July 2022.
INFN groups, while fully committed to the successful operation of the XENONnT...
