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Silicon Photo-Multipliers (SiPM) are state of the art light detectors with unprecedented single photon sensitivity and photon number resolving capability, representing a breakthrough in several fundamental and applied Science domains. An…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2014-07-01 V. Arosio , M. Caccia , V. Chmill , A. Ebolese , A. Martemiyanov , F. Risigo , R. Santoro , M. Locatelli , M. Pieracci , C. Tintori

Silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) are a good alternative to photomultiplier tubes (PMTs) because their gain and quantum efficiency are comparable to PMTs. However, the largest single-chip SiPM is still less than 1~cm$^2$. In order to use…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-11-17 Felix Liang , Hartmut Brands , Les Hoy , Jeff Preston , Jason Smith

Silicon Photomultipliers (SiPM) represent a promising alternative to classical photomultipliers, for instance, for the detection of photons in high energy physics and medical physics. In the present work, electrical characterizations of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-08-23 M. J. Boschini , C. Consolandi , P. G. Fallica , M. Gervasi , D. Grandi , M. Mazzillo , S. Pensotti , P. G. Rancoita , D. Sanfilippo , M. Tacconi , G. Valvo

Silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) have become the baseline choice for cameras of the small-sized telescopes (SSTs) of the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA). On the other hand, SiPMs are relatively new to the field and covering large surfaces…

We compared the performance of a SiPM array and a PMT in a laboratory setting using a single 5.08x5.08-cm cylindrical sodium iodide scintillating crystal. Photomultiplier tubes (PMTs) are the most commonly used device to monitor…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-01-23 Tyana Stiegler , Kareem Kazkaz , Erik Swanberg , Vladimir Mozin

The detection of individual photons at cryogenic temperatures is of interest to many experiments searching for physics beyond the Standard Model. Silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) are often deployed in liquid argon or liquid xenon to detect…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-05-22 S. Borden , J. A. Detwiler , W. Pettus , N. W. Ruof

A tracking detector based on two meters long scintillating fibers read out by silicon photomultipliers (SiPM) is being developed for the Kaos spectrometer at the Mainz Microtron MAMI. Results from a prototype setup using 2 mm square fibers…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2011-06-22 P. Achenbach , J. Pochodzalla , S. Sánchez Majos

In this work, photon bunching from LED light was observed for the first time using SiPMs. The bunching signature was observed with a significance of $7.3~\sigma$ using 97~hs of data. The light was spectrally filtered using a 1~nm bandpass…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-06-26 Lucas Finazzi , Federico Izraelevitch , Alexis Luszczak , Thomas Huber , Andreas Haungs , Federico Golmar

We report on the performance of silicon photomultiplier (SiPM) light sensors operating in electric field strength up to 30 kV/cm and at a temperature of 149K, relative to their performance in the absence of an external electric field. The…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-10-17 X. L. Sun , T. Tolba , G. F. Cao , P. Lv , L. J. Wen , A. Odian , F. Vachon , A. Alamre , J. B. Albert , G. Anton , I. J. Arnquist , I. Badhrees , P. S. Barbeau , D. Beck , V. Belov , T. Bhatta , F. Bourque , J. P. Brodsky , E. Brown , T. Brunner , A. Burenkov , L. Cao , W. R. Cen , C. Chambers , S. A. Charlebois , M. Chiu , B. Cleveland , M. Coon , M. Côté , A. Craycraft , W. Cree , J. Dalmasson , T. Daniels , L. Darroch , S. J. Daugherty , J. Daughhetee , S. Delaquis , A. Der Mesrobian-Kabakian , R. DeVoe , J. Dilling , Y. Y. Ding , M. J. Dolinski , A. Dragone , J. Echevers , L. Fabris , D. Fairbank , W. Fairbank , J. Farine , S. Feyzbakhsh , P. Fierlinger , R. Fontaine , D. Fudenberg , G. Gallina , G. Giacomini , R. Gornea , G. Gratta , E. V. Hansen , D. Harris , M. Heffner , E. W. Hoppe , J. Hößl , A. House , P. Hufschmidt , M. Hughes , Y. Ito , A. Iverson , A. Jamil , C. Jessiman , M. J. Jewell , X. S. Jiang , A. Karelin , L. J. Kaufman , D. Kodroff , T. Koffas , S. Kravitz , R. Krücken , A. Kuchenkov , K. S. Kumar , Y. Lan , A. Larson , D. S. Leonard , G. Li , S. Li , Z. Li , C. Licciardi , Y. H. Lin , R. MacLellan , T. Michel , M. Moe , B. Mong , D. C. Moore , K. Murray , R. J. Newby , Z. Ning , O. Njoya , F. Nolet , O. Nusair , K. Odgers , M. Oriunno , J. L. Orrell , G. S. Ortega , I. Ostrovskiy , C. T. Overman , S. Parent , A. Piepke , A. Pocar , J. -F. Pratte , D. Qiu , V. Radeka , E. Raguzin , T. Rao , S. Rescia , F. Retière , A. Robinson , T. Rossignol , P. C. Rowson , N. Roy , R. Saldanha , S. Sangiorgio , S. Schmidt , J. Schneider , D. Sinclair , K. Skarpaas VIII , A. K. Soma , G. St-Hilaire , V. Stekhanov , T. Stiegler , M. Tarka , J. Todd , T. I. Totev , R. Tsang , T. Tsang , B. Veenstra , V. Veeraraghavan , G. Visser , J. -L. Vuilleumier , M. Wagenpfeil , Q. Wang , J. Watkins , M. Weber , W. Wei , U. Wichoski , G. Wrede , S. X. Wu , W. H. Wu , Q. Xia , L. Yang , Y. -R. Yen , O. Zeldovich , J. Zhao , Y. Zhou , T. Ziegler

This study investigates the characteristics of Silicon Photomultipliers (SiPMs) with different pixel densities, focusing on their response across a wide dynamic range. Using an experimental setup that combines laser source and…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-07-26 Zhiyu Zhao , Baohua Qi , Shu Li , Yong Liu

A novel photon detector, the Silicon Photomultiplier (SiPM), has been tested in proximity focusing Ring Imaging Cherenkov (RICH) counters that were exposed to cosmic-ray particles in Ljubljana, and a 2 GeV electron beam at the KEK research…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2010-03-04 S. Korpar , I. Adachi , H. Chagani , R. Dolenec , K. Hara , T. Iijima , P. Krizan , S. Nishida , R. Pestotnik , A. Stanovnik

The performance of the $200\times2.5\times1$ cm$^3$ plastic scintillator strip with wavelength shifting fiber read-out by two novel photodetectors called Silicon PhotoMultipliers (SiPMs) is discussed. The advantages of SiPM relative to the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2009-11-11 V. Balagura , M. Danilov , B. Dolgoshein , S. Klemin , R. Mizuk , P. Pakhlov , E. Popova , V. Rusinov , E. Tarkovsky , I. Tikhomirov

We report on the possibility of using Silicon Photomultipliers (SiPMs) to detect the scintillation light from neutron conversion in ZnS:6LiF scintillators. The light is collected by wavelength-shifting fibers embedded into the scintillator.…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-18 A. Stoykov , J. -B. Mosset , U. Greuter , M. Hildebrandt , N. Schlumpf

A Silicon Photomultiplier, SiPM, is a metasystem of Avalanche Photodiodes, APDs, which embedded in a specific purpose electronic, becomes a metadevice with unique and useful advanced functionalities to capture, transmit and analyze…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-12-09 R. M. Gutierrez , A. I. Hernandez , L. F. Castaneda , J. F. Castano

Silicon-based photosensors (SiPMs) working in the Geiger-mode represent an elegant solution for the readout of particle detectors working at low-light levels like Cherenkov detectors. Especially the insensitivity to magnetic fields makes…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2010-09-01 Gamal Ahmed , Paul Buehler , Michael Cargnelli , Roland Hohler , Johann Marton , Herbert Orth , Ken Suzuki

Most detector systems used for positron emission particle tracking (PEPT) are very expensive due to the use of inorganic plastic scintillators combined with a high number of readout electronic channels. This work aims to reduce the overall…

Conventional silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) are well established as light detectors with single-photon-detection capability and used throughout high energy physics, medical, and commercial applications. The possibility to produce single…

This paper reports on the behaviour of Silicon Photomultiplier (SiPM) detectors under continuous light. Usually, the bias circuit of a SiPM has a resistor connected in series to it, which protects the sensor from drawing too high current.…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-01-29 A. Nagai , C. Alispach , D. della Volpe , M. Heller , T. Montaruli , S. Njoh , Y. Reniera , I. Troyano-Pujadas

Silicon photomultiplier (SiPM), as the core photoelectric sensor for coherent neutrino detection in low-temperature pure CsI, its working performance directly determines the measurement accuracy of the scintillator light yield. Our previous…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-10-29 Tao Liu , Xilei Sun , Fengjiao Luo , Jingbo Ye , Bo Zheng , Cong Guo , Zhilong Hou , Rongbin Zhou , Aiqin Gao , Lei Cao , Bo Zhang , Sijia Han

It is of great importance to develop a photodetector system with an ultralow radioactivity background in rare event searches. Silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) and application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) are two ideal candidates for…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-03-22 Haibo Yang , Qidong Wang , Guofu Cao , Kali M. Melby , Khadouja Harouaka , Isaac J. Arnquist , Fengwei Dai , Liqiang Cao , Liangjian Wen