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The proven radiation hardness of silicon 3D devices up to fluences of $1 {\times} 10^{17}$ $n_{eq}/cm^{2}$ makes them an excellent choice for next generation trackers, providing < 10 ${\mu}m$ position resolution at a high multiplicity…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-03-05 Evangelos-Leonidas Gkougkousis , Edgar Lemos Cid , Viktor Coco

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

The effects of radiation damage in silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) from gamma rays have been measured and compared with the damage produced by neutrons. Several types of MPPCs from Hamamatsu were exposed to gamma rays and neutrons at the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-09-04 B. Biró , G. David , A. Fenyvesi , J. S. Haggerty , J. Kierstead , E. J. Mannel , T. Majoros , J. Molnar , F. Nagy , S. Stoll , B. Ujvari , C. L. Woody

Silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) have become popular light conversion devices in recent years due to their low bias voltage and sensitivity to wavelengths emitted from common scintillating materials. These properties make them particularly…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-05-20 K. D. Bartlett , D. D. S. Coupland , D. Beckman , K. E. Mesick

Limited radiation hardness is the primary drawback to implementing Silicon Photomultipliers (SiPMs) in high-luminosity environments, such as the Compressed Baryonic Matter (CBM) experiment. Hadron irradiation generates defects in the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-09-24 Jesús Peña-Rodríguez , Jörg Förtsch , Christian Pauly , Karl-Heinz Kampert

Silicon Photomultipliers (SiPMs) are single photon detectors that gained increasing interest in many applications as an alternative to photomultiplier tubes. In particular in the field of space experiments, where volume, weight and power…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-05-14 Stefano Merzi , Fabio Acerbi , C. Aicardi , D. Fiore , V. Goiffon , Alberto Gola , O. Marcelot , A. Materne , O. Saint-Pe

In the context of the Scintillating Fibre (SciFi) Tracker for the LHCb Upgrade 2, radiation-induced damage in silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) has been studied over a wide temperature range, from room temperature down to 100 K. With the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-03-27 Esteban Currás-Rivera , Guido Haefeli , Federico Ronchetti

Pixel detectors are used in the innermost part of the multi purpose experiments at LHC and are therefore exposed to the highest fluences of ionising radiation, which in this part of the detectors consists mainly of charged pions. The…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2010-11-30 T. Rohe , A. Bean , W. Erdmann , H. -C. Kaestli , S. Khalatyan , B. Meier , V. Radicci , J. Sibille

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

A new method to determine the breakdown voltage of SiPMs is presented. It is backed up by a DC model which describes the breakdown phenomenon by distinct avalanche turn-on ($V_{01}$) and turn off ($V_{10}$) voltages. It is shown that…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-01-26 Ferenc Nagy , Gyula Hegyesi , Gabor Kalinka , Jozsef Molnar

This paper discusses the effects of radiation damage to SiPMs on the performances of plastic scintillator counters with series-connected SiPM readout, focusing on timing measurements. The performances of a counter composed of a $120 \times…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-10-12 G. Boca , P. W. Cattaneo , M. De Gerone , F. Gatti , M. Nakao , M. Nishimura , W. Ootani , M. Rossella , Y. Uchiyama , M. Usami , K. Yanai

The characterisation of radiation-damaged SiPMs is a major challenge, when the average time between dark counts approaches, or even exceeds, the signal decay time. In this note a collection of formulae is presented, which have been…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-09-18 E. Garutti , R. Klanner , D. Lomidze , J. Schwandt , M. Zvolsky

The damage growth and surface modifications in Si(100), induced by 25 keV Si$_5^-$ cluster ions, as a function of fluence, $\phi$, has been studied using atomic force microscopy (AFM) and channeling Rutherford backscattering spectrometry…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 H. P. Lenka , B. Joseph , P. K. Kuiri , G. Sahu , P. Mishra , D. Ghose , D. P. Mahapatra

We investigate the radiation tolerance of p-type silicon pad sensors, indigenously developed for use in high-fluence environments relevant to heavy-ion collider experiments, cosmic-ray observatories, and deep-space missions. Single-pad test…

The radiation damage to a silicon photomultiplier (SiPM) set on a satellite orbit increases energy threshold for scintillator detectors. We confirmed that 1 krad of radiation increases the energy threshold by approximately a factor of 10,…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-01-29 Teruaki Morishita , Yasushi Fukazawa , Hiromitsu Takahashi , Taishu Kayanoki , Ryota Niwa , Masaki Hashizume

Silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) will be used to read out all calorimeters in the ePIC experiment at the Electron-Ion Collider (EIC). A thorough characterization of the radiation damage expected for SiPMs under anticipated EIC fluences is…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-06-23 Jiajun Huang , Sean Preins , Ryan Tsiao , Miguel Rodriguez , Barak Schmookler , Miguel Arratia

Here we report the results of an investigation into the effects of ionizing radiation on commercial-off-the-shelf InGaAs and Si photodiodes. The photodiodes were exposed to 30, 52, and 98 MeV protons with fluences ranging from 10^8 -…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-10-11 Brian J. Baptista , Stuart L. Mufson

This paper presents the results of the fast neutron irradiation (E$_n$ > 0.5MeV) of an EJ-276 scintillator performed in the MARIA research reactor with fluence up to 5.3$\times$10$^{15}$ particles/cm$^2$. In our work, four samples with size…

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

In this work we study the performance of silicon photomultiplier (SiPM) light sensors after exposure to the JULIC cyclotron proton beam, of energy $\sim$ 39 MeV, relative to their performance before exposure. The SiPM devices used in this…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-11-19 Tamer Tolba , Dieter Grzonka , Thomas Sefzick , James Ritman