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Silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) have become the preferred photodetectors in next-generation neutrino experiments, yet no unified closed-form analytical expression free of truncation and numerical convolution has been established for their…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-05-27 Yiqi Liu , Xuewei Liu , Benda Xu

Silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) are photosensors widely used for imaging in a variety of high energy and nuclear physics experiments. In noble-gas detectors for double-beta decay and dark matter experiments, SiPMs are attractive…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-11 N. Yahlali , L. M. P. Fernandes , K. González , A. N. C. Garcia , A. Soriano

Silicon photomultipliers (SiPM) are the photon detectors chosen for the tracking readout in NEXT, a neutrinoless {\beta}{\beta} decay experiment which uses a high pressure gaseous xenon time projection chamber (TPC). The reconstruction of…

This report shows the design and the performance of a large area Silicon Photomultiplier (SiPM) module developed detection of fluorescent light emitted from a 10 cm scale volume. The module was optimized for the planned ACME III electron…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-11-09 A. Hiramoto , T. Masuda , D. G. Ang , C. Meisenhelder , C. Panda , N. Sasao , S. Uetake , X. Wu , D. Demille , J. M. Doyle , G. Gabrielse , K. Yoshimura

The matrices formed of silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) are very promising photosensors for the scintillation detectors. The use of SiPM matrices with appropriate optical collector gives, in principle, a possibility to do a snapshot of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-12 I. M. Dzaparova , A. M. Gangapshev , Yu. M. Gavrilyuk , V. B. Petkov , A. V. Sergeev , V. I. Volchenko , S. P. Yakimenko , A. F. Yanin

Si-Photomultiplier (SiPM) has several attracting features, which can be helpful in the communication field, such as high photon detection efficiency, fast transient response, excellent timing resolution, and wide spectral range. In this…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-09-04 Zhenzhou Deng , Anyi Li

Methods are developed, which use the pulse-height spectra of SiPMs measured in the dark and illuminated by pulsed light, to determine the pulse shape, the dark-count rate, the gain, the average number of photons initiating a Geiger…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-02-22 V. Chmill , E. Garutti , R. Klanner , M. Nitschke , J. Schwandt

The detection of 200-1000 MeV neutrons requires large amounts, $\sim$100 cm, of detector material because of the long nuclear interaction length of these particles. In the example of the NeuLAND neutron time-of-flight detector at FAIR, this…

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

Bioluminescence detection requires single-photon sensitivity, extremely low detection limits and wide dynamic range. Such performances were traditionally assured by photomultiplier-tubes based systems. However, development of novel…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-08-26 S. Lomazzi , M. Caccia , C. Distasi , M. Dionisi , D. Lim , A. Martemiyanov , L. Nardo , F. A. Ruffinatti , R. Santoro

The results of a 1-D Monte-Carlo program, which simulates the avalanche multiplication in diodes with depths of the order of 1 $\mu$m based on the method proposed in Ref.1, are presented. The aim of the study is to achieve a deeper…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-03-06 R. Klanner , J. Schwandt

Silicon Photomultipliers (SiPMs) have been widely adopted for photon detection in next-generation dark matter and neutrino detection experiments. Internal crosstalk, resulting from secondary photons produced during charge avalanches, is a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-09-09 L. Wang , H. Lewis , F. Retière , A. de St Croix

Silicon photomultiplier (SiPM), a new type of photosensor, is considered a substitute for traditional photomultiplier tube (PMT) in the next generation of dark matter and neutrino detectors, especially in noble gas detectors like liquid…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-05-31 T. A. Wang , C. Guo , X. H. Liang , L. Wang , M. Y. Guan , C. G. Yang , J. C. Liu , F. Y. Lin

Astronomical observations with gamma rays in the range of several hundred keV to hundreds of MeV currently represent the least explored energy range. To address this so-called MeV gap, we designed and built a prototype CsI:Tl calorimeter…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-18 Daniel Shy , Richard S. Woolf , Eric A. Wulf , Clio C. Sleator , Mary Johnson-Rambert , W. Neil Johnson , J. Eric Grove , Bernard F. Phlips

A silicon photomultiplier (SiPM) array has been developed at FBK-irst having 32 channels and a dimension of 8.0 x 1.1 mm^2. Each 250 um wide channel is subdivided into 5 x 22 rectangularly arranged pixels. These sensors are developed to…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2010-03-04 R. Greim , H. Gast , T. Kirn , J. Olzem , G. Roper Yearwood , S. Schael , N. Zimmermann , G. Ambrosi , P. Azzarello , R. Battiston , C. Piemonte

We have developed a function which describes SiPM response in both small signal and highly saturated regimes. The function includes the reactivation of SiPM pixels during a single input light pulse, and results in an approximately linear…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-03-21 Katsushige Kotera , Weonseok Choi , Tohru Takeshita

A mini-PET style detector system is being developed for a plant imaging application with a compact array of silicon photomultipliers (SiPM) replacing position sensitive photomultipliers (PSPMT). In addition to compactness, the use of SiPMs…

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…

Following first large-scale applications in highly granular calorimeters and in neutrino detectors, Silicon Photomultipliers have seen a wide adoption in accelerator-based particle and nuclear physics experiments. Today, they are used for a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-05-06 Frank Simon

Metalenses are optical devices that implement nanostructures as phase shifters to focus incident light. Their compactness and simple fabrication make them a potential cost-effective solution for increasing light collection efficiency in…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-12-30 A. A. Loya Villalpando , J. Martin-Albo , W. T. Chen , R. Guenette , C. Lego , J. S. Park , F. Capasso