A method for characterizing after-pulsing and dark noise of PMTs and SiPMs

A. Butcher; L. Doria; J. Monroe; F. Retiere; B. Smith; J. Walding

doi:10.1016/j.nima.2017.08.035

A method for characterizing after-pulsing and dark noise of PMTs and SiPMs

Instrumentation and Detectors 2018-03-14 v2

Authors: A. Butcher , L. Doria , J. Monroe , F. Retiere , B. Smith , J. Walding

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Abstract

Photo-multiplier tubes (PMTs) and silicon photo-multipliers (SiPMs) are detectors sensitive to single photons that are widely used for the detection of scintillation and Cerenkov light in subatomic physics and medical imaging. This paper presents a method for characterizing two of the main noise sources that PMTs and SiPMs share: dark noise and correlated noise (after-pulsing). The proposed method allows for a model-independent measurement of the after-pulsing timing distribution and dark noise rate.

Keywords

PMT SiPM after-pulsing dark noise single photon detection noise characterization timing distribution

Cite

@article{arxiv.1703.06204,
  title  = {A method for characterizing after-pulsing and dark noise of PMTs and SiPMs},
  author = {A. Butcher and L. Doria and J. Monroe and F. Retiere and B. Smith and J. Walding},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1703.06204},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

Accepted by Nucl. Instr. Meth. A. 11 pages, 8 figures. Added application of method to SiPM data in new version

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