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The gain of silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) increases with bias voltage and decreases with temperature. To operate SiPMs at stable gain, the bias voltage can be adjusted to compensate temperature changes. We have tested this concept with…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-10-09 Gerald Eigen

Measured response functions and low photon yield spectra of silicon photomultipliers (SiPM) were compared to multi-photoelectron pulse-height distributions generated by a Monte Carlo model. Characteristic parameters for SiPM were derived.…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 S. Sanchez Majos , P. Achenbach , J. Pochodzalla

Silicon Photo-Multipliers (SiPMs) are semiconductor-based photo-detectors with performances similar to the traditional Photo-Multiplier Tubes (PMTs). An increasing number of experiments dedicated to particle detection in colliders,…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-12-30 P. W. Cattaneo , A. Menegolli , M. C. Prata , G. L. Raselli , M. Rossella

A statistical model of the nonlinear response of silicon photomultipliers is presented. It includes losses of both the photodetection efficiency and the gain during pixel recovery periods as well as the effect of correlated and uncorrelated…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-09-04 Jaime Rosado

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

This article presents the development of a cost-effective and efficient electronic module for silicon photomultipliers (SiPM). The electronic module combines essential functionalities, such as a high voltage power supply, a preamplifier,…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-09-07 A. Sadigov , S. Nuruyev , R. Akbarov , D. B. Berikov , A. Madadzada , A. Mammadli

Prototype SiPMs with 4384 pixels of dimensions $15 \times 15~\mu $m$^2$ produced by KETEK have been irradiated with reactor neutrons to eight fluences between $10^9$ and $5\times 10^{14}$ cm$^{-2}$. For temperatures between $-30~^\circ $C…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-03-18 S. Cerioli , E. Garutti , R. Klanner , S. Martens , J. Schwandt , M. Zvolsky

The performance of a silicon photomultiplier has been assessed at low temperature in order to evaluate its suitability as a scintillation readout device in liquid argon particle physics detectors. The gain, measured as 2.1E6 for a constant…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2011-06-09 P. K. Lightfoot , G. J. Barker , K. Mavrokoridis , Y. A. Ramachers , N. J. C. Spooner

A dedicated single-cell SiPM structure is designed and measured to investigate the radiation damage effects on the gain and turn-off voltage of SiPMs exposed to a reactor neutron fluence up to $\Phi$ = 5e13 cm$^{-2}$. The cell has a pitch…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-11-02 E. Garutti , E. Popova , P. Parygin , O. Bychkova , A. Kaminsky , S. Martens , J. Schwandt , A. Stifutkin

The gain of silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) increases with bias voltage and decreases with temperature. To operate SiPMs at stable gain, the bias voltage can be readjusted to compensate for temperature changes. We have tested this concept…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-05-22 G. Eigen , J. Cvach , J. Kvasnicka , I. Polak , A. Træet , J. Zalieckas

We present an analog silicon photomultiplier (SiPM) based on a standard 55 nm Bipolar-CMOS-DMOS (BCD) technology. The SiPM is composed of 16$\times$16 single-photon avalanche diodes (SPADs) and measures 0.29$\times$0.32 mm$^2$. Each SPAD…

We report about the optical and electrical characterization of three high efficiency and blue sensitive Silicon photomultipliers from FBK, Hamamatsu, and SensL. Key features of the tested devices when operated at 90% breakdown probability…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-01-27 Adam Nepomuk Otte , Distefano Garcia , Thanh Nguyen , Dhruv Purushotham

In this paper, we report on the photon emission of Silicon Photomultipliers (SiPMs) from avalanche pulses generated in dark condition, with the main objective of better understanding the associated systematics for next-generation, large…

In this paper I want to review the current status of development of multi-pixel silicon-based avalanche photo-diodes operated in Geiger mode, also known as Silicon Photomultipliers (SiPM). Particular emphasis is given to the application of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-05-30 Erika Garutti

We have investigated the effects of X-ray irradiation to doses of 0, 200 Gy, 20 kGy, 2 MGy, and 20 MGy on the Hamamatsu silicon-photomultiplier (SiPM) S10362-11-050C. The SiPMs were irradiated without applied bias voltage. From…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2014-06-12 Chen Xu , Robert Klanner , Erika Garutti , Wolf-Lukas Hellweg

Silicon Photo-Multipliers (SiPMs) are detectors sensitive to single photons that are used to detect scintillation and Cherenkov light in a variety of physics and medical-imaging applications. SiPMs measure single photons by amplifying the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-10-23 G. Gallina , F. Retiere , P. Giampa , J. Kroeger , P. Margetak , S. Byrne Mamahit , A. De St. Croix , F. Edaltafar , N. Massacret , M. Ward , G. Zhang

This paper proposes an automatic procedure, based on ROOT data Analysis Framework, for the analysis of Silicon Photomultipliers (SiPM) characteristics. In particular, it can be used to analyze experimental waveforms, from oscilloscope,…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-07-10 Andrii Nagai , Nicoleta Dinu-Jaeger , Adam Para

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

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

The application of silicon photomultiplier (SiPM) technology for weak-light detection at a single photon level has expanded thanks to its better photon detection efficiency in comparison to a conventional photomultiplier tube (PMT). SiPMs…