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A general purpose instrument for imaging of Cherenkov light or fluorescence light emitted by extensive air showers is presented. Its refractive optics allows for a compact and light-weight design with a wide field-of-view of 12{\deg}. The…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-15 T. Bretz , T. Hebbeker , J. Kemp , L. Middendorf , T. Niggemann , C. Peters , M. Schaufel , J. Schumacher , J. Auffenberg , C. Wiebusch

We present LiFMCR, a novel dataset for the registration of multiple micro lens array (MLA)-based light field cameras. While existing light field datasets are limited to single-camera setups and typically lack external ground truth, LiFMCR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Aymeric Fleith , Julian Zirbel , Daniel Cremers , Niclas Zeller

Night Sky Background (NSB) is a complex phenomenon, consisting of all light detected by Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs) not attributable to Cherenkov light emission. Understanding the effect of NSB on cameras for the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-20 Samuel Timothy Spencer , Jason John Watson , Gianluca Giavitto , Garret Cotter , Richard White

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will be the largest cosmic gamma ray detector ever built in the world. It will be installed at two different sites in the North and South hemispheres and should be operational for about 30 years. In order…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 F. Hénault , P. O. Petrucci , L. jocou , B. Khélifi , P. Manigot , S. Hormigos , J. Knodlseder , J. F. Olive , P. Jean , M. Punch

Photo-multiplier tubes (PMTs) and silicon photo-multipliers (SiPMs) are detectors sensitive to single photons that are widely used for the detection of scintillation and Cerenkov light in subatomic physics and medical imaging. This paper…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-03-14 A. Butcher , L. Doria , J. Monroe , F. Retiere , B. Smith , J. Walding

In this article we describe the photon detection readout electronics for the nEDM@SNS experiment. The chosen "photon counting" architecture, which utilizes high-efficiency silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) and is appropriate for low-light…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-09-28 V. Cianciolo , Yu. V. Efremenko , L. Fabris , S. K. Imam , S. I. Penttila J. C. Ramsey , R. Santos Estrada

A scintillation muon telescope module with fiber-optic light collection using silicon photomultipliers was developed, tested, and installed for continuous monitoring to study cosmic ray variations. The aim of this study was to create a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-10 Belov S. M. , Yanke V. G

The Huntsman Telescope, located at Siding Spring Observatory in Australia, is a system of ten telephoto Canon lenses designed for low surface brightness imaging in the Southern sky. Based upon the Dragonfly Telephoto Array, the refractive…

IceAct is a proposed surface array of cost effective and compact Silicon Photomultipliers (SiPM) based small-size (50 cm) Imaging Air Cherenkov Telescopes above the IceCube in-ice detector. In coincidence with the in-ice and surface…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-30 Merlin Schaufel , Karen Andeen , Jan Auffenberg

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

In this work we will document the design and the performances of a SiPM-based photodetector with a surface area of 100 cm$^2$ conceived to operate as a replacement for PMTs. The signals from 94 SiPMs are summed up to produce an aggregated…

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 FlashCam group is currently preparing photomultiplier-tube based cameras proposed for the medium-sized telescopes (MST) of the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA). The cameras are designed around the FlashCam readout concept which is the…

Reflectance of silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) is an important aspect to understand the large scale SiPM-based detector systems and evaluate the performance of SiPMs. We report the reflactance of two SiPMs, NUV-HD-lowCT and S14160-60-50HS…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-06-24 W. Wang , G. F. Cao , Z. Q. Xie , J. Cao , M. Qi , L. J. Wen

As a prototype detector for the SHiP Surrounding Background Tagger (SBT), we constructed a cell (120 cm x 80 cm x 25 cm) made from corten steel that is filled with liquid scintillator (LS) composed of linear alkylbenzene (LAB) and…

A PET scanner based on silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) has been widely used as an advanced nuclear medicine imaging technique that yields quantitative images of regional in vivo biology and biochemistry. The compact size of the SiPM allows…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-02-02 Cong Ma , Xiaokun Zhao , Size Gao , Fengping Zhang , Guocheng Wu , Xing Li , Lei Lu , Hongwei Ye , Hua Qian

The Mexico-UK Submillimetre Camera for Astronomy (MUSCAT) is the second-generation large-format continuum camera operating in the 1.1 mm band to be installed on the 50-m diameter Large Millimeter Telescope (LMT) in Mexico. The focal plane…

The 64-channel Multianode Photo Multiplier (MaPMT) has been evaluated as a candidate for the LHCb Ring Imaging Cherenkov (RICH) photo detectors. We present result from data taken with a 3x3 array of closely packed MaPMTs mounted onto the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-11-10 F. Muheim

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is a planned observatory for very-high energy gamma-ray astronomy. It will consist of several tens of telescopes of different sizes, with a total mirror area of up to 10,000 square meters. Most mirrors of…

NectarCAM is a camera developed to detect Cherenkov light between 80 GeV and 30 TeV. It will equip the medium-sized telescopes (MST) of the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO). The camera comprises 265 modules, covering a field of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-28 F. Bradascio