R&D
CYGNO is not only dark matter.
Directional rare-event searches drive the program, but the same optical TPC technology opens research paths where low-energy tracks, topology, and light readout carry the physics information.
Detector R&D becomes analysis capability.
CYGNO studies gas mixtures, GEM amplification, optical transport, sensor response, calibration strategies, and underground operation as one coupled detector system.
Large optical-image data streams are analyzed with modern reconstruction, artificial intelligence, and machine-learning techniques for event selection, background rejection, monitoring, and physics interpretation.
Directional dark matter
The core CYGNO program: low-threshold optical TPCs designed to reconstruct the direction of rare nuclear recoils.
Neutrino physics
Directional solar-neutrino studies and CEvNS concepts use light targets and recoil reconstruction to probe weak interactions.
X-ray polarimetry
Optical readout can image short electron tracks, a capability that connects naturally to photoelectric polarimetry in the hard X-ray band.
Rare-event detector R&D
Prototype tests, calibration campaigns, underground operations, and scalable readout turn the optical TPC concept into a robust rare-event instrument.