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

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Measurement of isotopic separation of argon with the prototype of the cryogenic distillation plant Aria for dark matter searches. / DarkSide-20k Collaboration.

In: European Physical Journal C, Vol. 83, No. 5, 453, 05.2023.

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@article{864fa31a8a7a459dac1d096a81a863d5,

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

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.",

author = "{DarkSide-20k Collaboration} and E. Aaron and P. Agnes and I. Ahmad and S. Albergo and Albuquerque, {I. F.M.} and T. Alexander and Alton, {A. K.} and P. Amaudruz and {Atzori Corona}, M. and M. Ave and Avetisov, {I. Ch} and O. Azzolini and Back, {H. O.} and Z. Balmforth and A. Barrado and P. Barrillon and A. Basco and G. Batignani and V. Bocci and Bonivento, {W. M.} and B. Bottino and Boulay, {M. G.} and J. Busto and M. Cadeddu and A. Caminata and N. Canci and A. Capra and S. Caprioli and M. Caravati and N. Cargioli and M. Carlini and P. Castello and P. Cavalcante and S. Cavuoti and S. Cebrian and {Cela Ruiz}, {J. M.} and S. Chashin and A. Chepurnov and E. Chyhyrynets and L. Cifarelli and D. Cintas and M. Citterio and B. Cleveland and V. Cocco and {Conde Vilda}, E. and L. Consiglio and S. Copello and G. Covone and M. Czubak and V. Oleynikov",

note = "This report is based upon work supported by FSC 2014-2020 - Patto per lo Sviluppo, Regione Sardegna, Italy, the U. S. National Science Foundation (NSF) (Grants No. PHY-0919363, No. PHY-1004054, No. PHY-1004072, No. PHY-1242585, No. PHY-1314483, No. PHY- 1314507, associated collaborative grants, No. PHY-1211308, No. PHY-1314501, and No. PHY-1455351, as well as Major Research Instrumentation Grant No. MRI-1429544), the Italian Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (Grants from Italian Ministero dell{\textquoteright}Istruzione, Universit{\`a}, e Ricerca Progetto Premiale 2013 and Commissione Scientific Nazionale II), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, SNOLAB, and the Arthur B. McDonald Canadian Astroparticle Physics Research Institute. We acknowledge the financial support by LabEx UnivEarthS (ANR-10-LABX-0023 and ANR18-IDEX-0001), the S{\~a}o Paulo Research Foundation (Grant FAPESP-2017/26238-4), Chinese Academy of Sciences (113111KYSB20210030) and National Natural Science Foundation of China (12020101004). The authors were also supported by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (MICINN) through the grant PID2019-109374GB-I00, the “Atraccion de Talento” Grant 2018-T2/ TIC-10494, the Polish NCN, Grant No. UMO- 2019/ 33/ B/ ST2/ 02884, the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education, MNiSW, grant number 6811/IA/SP/2018, the International Research Agenda Programme AstroCeNT, Grant No. MAB/2018/7, funded by the Foundation for Polish Science from the European Regional Development Fund, the European Union{\textquoteright}s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement No 952480 (DarkWave), the Science and Technology Facilities Council, part of the United Kingdom Research and Innovation, and The Royal Society (United Kingdom), and IN2P3-COPIN consortium (Grant No. 20-152). I.F.M.A is supported in part by Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cient{\'i}fico e Tecnol{\'o}gico (CNPq). We also wish to acknowledge the support from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, which is operated by Battelle for the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC05-76RL01830. This research was supported by the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), a U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, HEP User Facility. Fermilab is managed by Fermi Research Alliance, LLC (FRA), acting under Contract No. DE-AC02-07CH11359. We acknowledge the professional contribution of the Mine and Electrical Maintenance staff of Carbosulcis S.p.A. to this activity. We thank Polaris S.r.L. and in particular M. Masetto and E.V.Canesi for their continuous support during the preparation and execution of the run. We thank Fondazione Aria for its contribution to the project and, in particular, for the help during the data-taking. We thank S.Nisi of Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, for his contribution in the commissioning of the sampling system and M.Guetti of Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, for the help in plant maintenance. We thank M. Arba and M. Tuveri of the Cagliari Division of Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare for their support during the preparation of the run. We acknowledge the contribution of eng. S. Tosti, T. Pinna, D.Dongiovanni, A.Santucci of ENEA for the safety analyses for Aria. Публикация для корректировки.",

year = "2023",

month = may,

doi = "10.1140/epjc/s10052-023-11430-0",

language = "English",

volume = "83",

journal = "European Physical Journal C",

issn = "1434-6044",

publisher = "Springer Nature",

number = "5",

}

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TY - JOUR

T1 - Measurement of isotopic separation of argon with the prototype of the cryogenic distillation plant Aria for dark matter searches

AU - DarkSide-20k Collaboration

AU - Aaron, E.

AU - Agnes, P.

AU - Ahmad, I.

AU - Albergo, S.

AU - Albuquerque, I. F.M.

AU - Alexander, T.

AU - Alton, A. K.

AU - Amaudruz, P.

AU - Atzori Corona, M.

AU - Ave, M.

AU - Avetisov, I. Ch

AU - Azzolini, O.

AU - Back, H. O.

AU - Balmforth, Z.

AU - Barrado, A.

AU - Barrillon, P.

AU - Basco, A.

AU - Batignani, G.

AU - Bocci, V.

AU - Bonivento, W. M.

AU - Bottino, B.

AU - Boulay, M. G.

AU - Busto, J.

AU - Cadeddu, M.

AU - Caminata, A.

AU - Canci, N.

AU - Capra, A.

AU - Caprioli, S.

AU - Caravati, M.

AU - Cargioli, N.

AU - Carlini, M.

AU - Castello, P.

AU - Cavalcante, P.

AU - Cavuoti, S.

AU - Cebrian, S.

AU - Cela Ruiz, J. M.

AU - Chashin, S.

AU - Chepurnov, A.

AU - Chyhyrynets, E.

AU - Cifarelli, L.

AU - Cintas, D.

AU - Citterio, M.

AU - Cleveland, B.

AU - Cocco, V.

AU - Conde Vilda, E.

AU - Consiglio, L.

AU - Copello, S.

AU - Covone, G.

AU - Czubak, M.

AU - Oleynikov, V.

N1 - This report is based upon work supported by FSC 2014-2020 - Patto per lo Sviluppo, Regione Sardegna, Italy, the U. S. National Science Foundation (NSF) (Grants No. PHY-0919363, No. PHY-1004054, No. PHY-1004072, No. PHY-1242585, No. PHY-1314483, No. PHY- 1314507, associated collaborative grants, No. PHY-1211308, No. PHY-1314501, and No. PHY-1455351, as well as Major Research Instrumentation Grant No. MRI-1429544), the Italian Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (Grants from Italian Ministero dell’Istruzione, Università, e Ricerca Progetto Premiale 2013 and Commissione Scientific Nazionale II), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, SNOLAB, and the Arthur B. McDonald Canadian Astroparticle Physics Research Institute. We acknowledge the financial support by LabEx UnivEarthS (ANR-10-LABX-0023 and ANR18-IDEX-0001), the São Paulo Research Foundation (Grant FAPESP-2017/26238-4), Chinese Academy of Sciences (113111KYSB20210030) and National Natural Science Foundation of China (12020101004). The authors were also supported by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (MICINN) through the grant PID2019-109374GB-I00, the “Atraccion de Talento” Grant 2018-T2/ TIC-10494, the Polish NCN, Grant No. UMO- 2019/ 33/ B/ ST2/ 02884, the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education, MNiSW, grant number 6811/IA/SP/2018, the International Research Agenda Programme AstroCeNT, Grant No. MAB/2018/7, funded by the Foundation for Polish Science from the European Regional Development Fund, the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement No 952480 (DarkWave), the Science and Technology Facilities Council, part of the United Kingdom Research and Innovation, and The Royal Society (United Kingdom), and IN2P3-COPIN consortium (Grant No. 20-152). I.F.M.A is supported in part by Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq). We also wish to acknowledge the support from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, which is operated by Battelle for the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC05-76RL01830. This research was supported by the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), a U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, HEP User Facility. Fermilab is managed by Fermi Research Alliance, LLC (FRA), acting under Contract No. DE-AC02-07CH11359. We acknowledge the professional contribution of the Mine and Electrical Maintenance staff of Carbosulcis S.p.A. to this activity. We thank Polaris S.r.L. and in particular M. Masetto and E.V.Canesi for their continuous support during the preparation and execution of the run. We thank Fondazione Aria for its contribution to the project and, in particular, for the help during the data-taking. We thank S.Nisi of Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, for his contribution in the commissioning of the sampling system and M.Guetti of Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, for the help in plant maintenance. We thank M. Arba and M. Tuveri of the Cagliari Division of Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare for their support during the preparation of the run. We acknowledge the contribution of eng. S. Tosti, T. Pinna, D.Dongiovanni, A.Santucci of ENEA for the safety analyses for Aria. Публикация для корректировки.

PY - 2023/5

Y1 - 2023/5

N2 - 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.

AB - 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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