  The CYGNO project has the goal to use a gaseous TPC with optical readout to
detect dark matter and solar neutrinos with low energy threshold and
directionality. The CYGNO demonstrator will consist of 1 m 3 volume filled with
He:CF 4 gas mixture at atmospheric pressure. Optical readout with high
granularity CMOS sensors, combined with fast light detectors, will provide a
detailed reconstruction of the event topology. This will allow to discriminate
the nuclear recoil signal from the background, mainly represented by low energy
electron recoils induced by radioactivity. Thanks to the high reconstruction
efficiency, CYGNO will be sensitive to low mass dark matter, and will have the
potential to overcome the neutrino floor, that ultimately limits
non-directional dark matter searches.
