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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

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

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

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

Radiation damage of J-series silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) has been studied in the context of using these photodetectors in future space-borne scintillation detectors. Several SiPM samples were exposed to 101.4 MeV protons, with 1 MeV…

Silicon PhotoMultipliers (SiPM) are an excellent choice for the scintillator light readout at hadron calorimeters due to their insensitivity to magnetic fields, low operating voltages, low cost, compactness and mechanical endurance. They…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-01-29 V. Mikhaylov , F. Guber , A. Ivashkin , A. Kugler , V. Kushpil , S. Morozov , O. Svoboda , P. Tlusty

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

Silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) are increasingly favored for detecting near-UV, visible, and infrared light in space due to their high sensitivity to single photons and compact design. While SiPMs offer several advantages over traditional…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-23 Shideh Davarpanah for the NUSES Collaboration

Silicon Photomultipliers (SiPMs) are quickly replacing traditional photomultiplier tubes (PMTs) as the readout of choice for gamma-ray scintillation detectors in space. While they offer substantial size, weight and power saving, they have…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-02-03 Lee J. Mitchell , Bernard Phlips , W. Neil Johnson , Mary Johnson-Rambert , Anika N. Kansky , Richard Woolf

The use of Silicon Photo-Multipliers(SiPMs)has become popular in the design of High Energy Physics experimental apparatus with a growing interest for their application in detector area where a significant amount of non-ionising dose is…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-01-05 M. Cordelli , E. Diociaiuti , A. Ferrari , S. Miscetti , S. Muller , G. Pezzullo , I. Sarra

This paper presents the results of the proton irradiation of silicon photomulipliers (SiPMs) by mono-energetic 170 MeV protons with fluence up to 4.6$\times$10$^{9}$ particles/cm$^2$. In our work, three types of silicon photodetectors from…

Silicon Photomultipliers with cell-pitch ranging from 12 $\mu$m to 20 $\mu$m were tested against neutron irradiation at moderate fluences to study their performance for calorimetric applications. The photosensors were developed by FBK…

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

Space missions require lightweight, low-power consuming, radiation-tolerant components. Silicon photomultipliers are increasingly used for detecting near-UV, optical, and infrared light in space due to their compact design, low cost, low…

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

Silicon Photo-Multipliers (SiPM) are becoming the photo-detector of choice for increasingly more particle detection applications, from fundamental physics to medical and societal applications. One major consideration for their use at…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-12-26 M. Centis Vignali , E. Garutti , R. Klanner , D. Lomidze , J. Schwandt

An established technique for the measurement of ultra-high-energy-cosmic-rays is the detection of the fluorescence light induced in the atmosphere of the Earth, by means of telescopes equipped with photomultiplier tubes. Silicon…

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

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…

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
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