Eugenio Scapparone (INFN Bologna)
NOA (Nuova Officina Assergi) is a new facility that INFN plans to build and operate at LNGS. It includes several branches, ranging from material screening with Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectroscopy (ICP-MS) to Additive Manufacturing.
One of the most important part of NOA is the large clean room ( ~ 250 m2) devoted to the packaging of silicon detectors, deserving cutting edge technology equipments. The Darkside – 20k experiment is expected to be the first NOA user and provided therefore a relevant contribution to the NOA TDR, including the equipment specifications to package ~125,000 SiPMs in 2 years.
After a short introduction on Darkside-20k and the SiPM working principles, the main features of the NOA clean-room, the technical solutions foreseen and the planned work-flow will be presented.