In this article we present the large photo-multiplier tube (PMT) afterpulse measurement results of Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) experiment. Totally 11 dynode-PMTs (R12860) from Hamamatsu company and 150 micro-channel plate PMTs (MCP-PMTs, GDB-6201) from NNVT company were tested, an afterpulse model is built according to the afterpulse time distribution and probability of occurrence for these two types of PMTs. The average ratio between the total afterpulse charge with the delay between 0.5 μ s and 20 μ s to the primary pulse charge is 5.6%(13.2%) for the tested MCP-PMTs (dynode-PMTs). JUNO experiment will deploy 20,012 20-inch PMTs, and this study will benefit the detector simulation, event reconstruction and data analysis of JUNO experiment.
@article{arxiv.2207.04995,
title = {Afterpulse measurement of JUNO 20-inch PMTs},
author = {Rong Zhao and Nikolay Anfimov and Yu Chen and Hang Hu and Jun Hu and Xiaolu Ji and Denis Korablev and Min Li and Alexander Olshevskiy and Zhaoyuan Peng and Arseny Rybnikov and Zhonghua Qin and Jun Wang and Wei Wang and Zhimin Wang and Björn Wonsak},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2207.04995},
year = {2022}
}