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Performance of Large Area Picosecond Photo-Detectors (LAPPD)

Instrumentation and Detectors 2019-10-01 v1 Nuclear Experiment Medical Physics

Abstract

We report on performance results achieved for recently produced LAPPDs - largest comercially available planar geometry photodetectors based on microchannel plates. These results include electron gains of up to 10710^{7}, low dark noise rates (\sim100 Hz/cm2^{2} at a gain of 61066\cdot10^6), single photoelectron (PE) timing resolution of \sim50 picoseconds RMS (electronics limited), and single photoelectron spatial resolution along and across strips of 3.2mm (electronics limited) and 0.8 mm RMS respectively and high (about 25\% or higher in some units) QE uniform bi-alkali photocathodes. LAPPDs is a good candidate to be employed in neutrino experiments (e.g. ANNIE, WATCHMAN, DUNE), particle collider experiments (e.g. EIC), neutrinoless double-beta decay experiments (e.g. THEIA), medical and nuclear non-proliferation applications.

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@article{arxiv.1909.10399,
  title  = {Performance of Large Area Picosecond Photo-Detectors (LAPPD)},
  author = {A. V. Lyashenko and B. W. Adams and M. Aviles and T. Cremer and C. D. Ertley and M. R. Foley and M. J. Minot and M. A. Popecki and M. E. Stochaj and W. A. Worstell and J. W. Elam and A. U. Mane and O. H. W. Siegmund and H. J. Frisch and A. L. Elagin and E. Angelico and E. Spieglan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1909.10399},
  year   = {2019}
}

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