Performance of the D-Egg Optical Sensor for the IceCube Upgrade
Abstract
New optical sensors called the "D-Egg" have been developed for cost-effective instrumentation for the IceCube Upgrade. With two 8-inch high quantum efficient photomultiplier tubes (PMTs), they offer increased effective photocathode area while retaining as much of the successful IceCube Digital Optical Module design as possible. Mass production of D-Eggs has started in 2020. By the end of 2021, there will be 310 D-Eggs produced with 288 deployed in the IceCube Upgrade. The D-Egg readout system uses advanced technologies in electronics and computing power. Each of the two PMT signals is digitised using ultra-low-power 14-bit ADCs with a sampling frequency of 240 megaSPS, enabling seamless and lossless event recording from single-photon signals to signals exceeding 200 PE within 10 nanosecond, as well as flexible event triggering. In this paper, we report the single photon detection performance as well as the multiple photon recording capability of D-Eggs from the mass production line which have been evaluated with the built-in data acquisition system.
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@article{arxiv.2108.05353,
title = {Performance of the D-Egg Optical Sensor for the IceCube Upgrade},
author = {Colton Hill and Maximillian Meier and Ryo Nagai and Ken'ichi Kin and Nobuhiro Shimizu and Aya Ishihara and Shigeru Yoshida and Tyler Anderson and Jim Braun and Aaron Fienberg and Jeff Weber},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2108.05353},
year = {2021}
}
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Presented at the 37th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC 2021). See arXiv:2107.06966 for all IceCube contributions