Separating $^{39}$Ar from $^{40}$Ar by cryogenic distillation with Aria for dark matter searches
Creators: name: DarkSide Collaboration
name: Agnes, P.
name: Albergo, S.
name: Albuquerque, I. F. M.
name: Alexander, T.
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name: Amaudruz, P.
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name: Arpaia, P.
name: Arcelli, S.
name: Ave, M.
name: Avetissov, I. Ch.
name: Avetisov, R. I.
name: Azzolini, O.
name: Back, H. O.
name: Balmforth, Z.
name: Barbarian, V.
name: Olmedo, A. Barrado
name: Barrillon, P.
name: Basco, A.
name: Batignani, G.
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name: Bonivento, W. M.
name: Borisova, E.
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name: Caravati, M.
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name: Carnesecchi, F.
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name: Ruiz, J. M. Cela
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name: Colocci, M.
name: Vilda, E. Conde
name: Consiglio, L.
name: Copello, S.
name: Corning, J.
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name: Czudak, P.
name: D'Aniello, M.
name: D'Auria, S.
name: Rolo, M. D. Da Rocha
name: Dadoun, O.
name: Daniel, M.
name: Davini, S.
name: De Candia, A.
name: De Cecco, S.
name: De Falco, A.
name: De Filippis, G.
name: De Gruttola, D.
name: De Guido, G.
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name: De Pasquale, S.
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name: Devoto, A.
name: Di Noto, L.
name: Di Eusanio, F.
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name: Di Stefano, P.
name: Dolganov, G.
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name: Downing, M.
name: Erjavec, T.
name: Falciano, S.
name: Farenzena, S.
name: Diaz, M. Fernandez
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name: Skorokhvatov, M. D.
name: Smirnov, O.
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name: Sokolov, A.
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name: Stracka, S.
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name: Stringer, M.
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name: Szelc, A. M.
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name: Tartaglia, R.
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name: Unzhakov, E. V.
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name: Vishneva, A.
name: Vogelaar, R. B.
name: Wada, M.
name: Wang, H.
name: Wang, Y.
name: Westerdale, S.
name: Wheadon, R. J.
name: Williams, L.
name: Wojcik, Ma. M.
name: Wojcik, Ma.
name: Xiao, X.
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Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Aria project consists of a plant, hosting a 350 m cryogenic isotopic distillation column, the tallest ever built, which is currently in the installation phase in a mine shaft at Carbosulcis S.p.A., Nuraxi-Figus (SU), Italy. Aria is one of the pillars of the argon dark-matter search experimental program, lead by the Global Argon Dark Matter Collaboration. Aria was designed to reduce the isotopic abundance of $^{39}$Ar, a $β$-emitter of cosmogenic origin, whose activity poses background and pile-up concerns in the detectors, in the argon used for the dark-matter searches, the so-called Underground Argon (UAr). In this paper, we discuss the requirements, design, construction, tests, and projected performance of the plant for the isotopic cryogenic distillation of argon. We also present the successful results of isotopic cryogenic distillation of nitrogen with a prototype plant, operating the column at total reflux.