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The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) together with the Long Baseline Neutrino Facility (LBNF) hosted at the Fermilab will provide a unique, world-leading program for the exploration of key questions at the forefront of neutrino…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-02-17 Yujing Sun , Jelena Maricic

Current generation of detectors using noble gases in liquid phase for direct dark matter search and neutrino physics need large area photosensors. Silicon based photo-detectors are innovative light collecting devices and represent a…

Decreasing the operation temperature of a Silicon Photo-Multiplier (SiPM) leads to a drop in its dark noise. Some experiments consider cold temperatures as an option for low noise applications of SiPM. One of those is the TAO detector,…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-03-17 N. Anfimov , D. Fedoseev , A. Rybnikov , A. Selyunin , S. Sokolov , A. Sotnikov

Radon is the main background source of dark matter and neutrino experiments. Radon concentration ($\rm mBq/m^3$) measurement by liquid scintillation detector is a highly sensitive method at low temperatures using silicon photomultipliers…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-11-23 C. Zhong , F. J. Luo , B. Zheng , X. D. Wang , M. Y. Bu , J. Zou , M. N. Deng

This study evaluates more than 4,000 tiles made of Hamamatsu visual-sensitive silicon photomultipier (SiPM), each with dimensions of 5 $\times$ 5 cm$^2$, intended for the central detector of the Taishan Anti-neutrino Observatory (TAO), a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-07-24 X. Chen , G. F. Cao , M. H. Qu , H. W. Wang , N. Anfimov , A. Rybnikov , J. Y. Xu , A. Q. Su , Z. L. Chen , J. Cao , Y. C. Li , M. Qi

This paper presents a low noise amplifier for large arrays of silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) operated in cryogenic environments, especially liquid argon (87 K) and liquid nitrogen (77 K). The goal is for one amplifier to read out a total…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-01-15 P. Carniti , A. Falcone , C. Gotti , A. Lucchini , G. Pessina , S. Riboldi , F. Terranova

Silicon Photomultipliers (SiPMs) are state-of-the-art photon detectors used in particle physics, medical imaging, and beyond. They are sensitive to individual photons in the optical wavelength regime and achieve time resolutions of a few…

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 photomultipliers (SiPMs) have a low radioactivity, compact geometry, low operation voltage, and reasonable photo-detection efficiency for vacuum ultraviolet light (VUV). Therefore it has the potential to replace photomultiplier…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-03-24 K. Ozaki , S. Kazama , M. Yamashita , Y. Itow , S. Moriyama

Next generation multi-ton scale noble liquid experiments have the unique opportunity to discover dark matter particles at the TeV scale, reaching the sensitivity of 10^-48 cm2 in the WIMP nucleon scattering cross-section. A prerequisite…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-01-07 S. Catalanotti , A. G. Cocco , G. Covone , M. D Incecco , G. Fiorillo , G. Korga , B. Rossi , S. Walker

Silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) are currently the most prevalent photon detection technology in modern experiments in high-energy physics, astroparticle physics, neutrino physics, and dark matter searches. The high detection efficiency for…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-03-31 Tanay Dey , Suraj Shaw , Ritabrata Banerjee , Pratik Majumdar , Satyaki Bhattacharya

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) are highly-sensitive photodetectors emerging as the technology of choice for many applications, including large high-energy physics experiments where they often are exposed to high radiation fluences. In…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-08-17 A. R. Altamura , F. Acerbi , C. Nociforo , V. Regazzoni , A. Mazzi , A. Gola

We report on the measurement of the radiation hardness of silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) manufactured by Fondazione Bruno Kessler in Italy (1 mm$^2$ and 6.2 mm$^2$), Center of Perspective Technology and Apparatus in Russia (1 mm$^2$ and…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2009-01-09 P. Bohn , A. Clough , E. Hazen , A. Heering , J. Rohlf , J. Freeman , S. Los , E. Cascio , S. Kuleshov , Y. Musienko , C. Piemonte

The LHCb experiment at CERN has been upgraded for the Run 3 operation of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). A new concept of tracking detector based on Scintillating Fibres (SciFi) read out with multichannel silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs)…

We demonstrate fast counting and multiphoton detection abilities of a Silicon Photo Multiplier (SiPM). In fast counting mode we are able to detect two consecutive photons separated by only 2.3 ns corresponding to 430 MHz. The counting…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. Eraerds , M. Legre , A. Rochas , H. Zbinden , N. Gisin

Modern neutrino physics detectors often employ thousands, and sometimes even hundreds of thousands, of Silicon Photomultipliers (SiPMs). The TAO experiment is a notable example that utilizes a spherical scintillator barrel with a diameter…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-02-09 A. Rybnikov , N. Anfimov , M. Qu , A. Chetverikov , G. Cao , D. Fedoseev , H. Wang , V. Kozhukalov , V. Sharov , S. Sokolov , A. Sotnikov

Silicon Photomultipliers (SiPMs) are considered as a solid-state sensor alternative to photomultiplier tubes in experiments using liquid xenon (LXe) as a radiation detection medium. The main requirements are single-photon detection of the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-11-14 Laura Baudis , Michelle Galloway , Alexander Kish , Chris Marentini , Julien Wulf

Muon scattering tomography is a non-destructive technique used to image different materials by utilizing natural cosmic ray muons. Typically it requires position-sensitive detectors with a sub-millimeter resolution to effectively…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-02-19 Binghao Sun , Huiling Li , Quanyin Li , Hui Liang , Cong Liu , Hongbo Wang , Zibing Wu , Suyu Xiao , Weiwei Xu

We present a fluorescence-detection system for laser-cooled 9Be+ ions based on silicon photomultipliers (SiPM) operated at 4 K and integrated into our cryogenic 1.9 T multi-Penning-trap system. Our approach enables fluorescence detection in…