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Silicon Photomultipliers (SiPMs) are attractive candidates for light detectors for next generation liquid xenon double-beta decay experiments, like nEXO. In this paper we discuss the requirements that the SiPMs must satisfy in order to be…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-08-25 I. Ostrovskiy , F. Retiere , D. Auty , J. Dalmasson , T. Didberidze , R. DeVoe , G. Gratta , L. Huth , L. James , L. Lupin-Jimenez , N. Ohmert , A. Piepke

The last decade has increasingly seen the use of silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) instead of photomultiplier tubes (PMTs). This is due to various advantages of the former on the latter like its smaller size, lower operating voltage, higher…

Silicon photomultipliers (SiPM) are solid state light detectors with sensitivity to single photons. Their use in high energy physics experiments, and in particular in ring imaging Cherenkov (RICH) detectors, is hindered by their poor…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-01-16 M. Calvi , P. Carniti , C. Gotti , C. Matteuzzi , G. Pessina

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

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

The use of silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) alongside conventional photomultiplier tubes (PMTs) is a remarkable technological development in modern ground-based very high energy gamma-ray astronomy. SiPMs exhibit comparable or even higher…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-24 Razmik Mirzoyan , Alexander Hahn , David Fink , Antonios Dettlaff , Daniel Mazin , David Paneque , Olaf Reimann , Thomas Schweizer , Derek Strom , Masahiro Teshima , Yazhou Zhao

Silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) have a few advantages over conventional photomultiplier tubes (PMTs) used in imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes. The first notable characteristic is their higher photon detection efficiency (PDE) of up…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-19 Akira Okumura , Junya Haga , Chiaki Inoue , Keiji Nishimoto , Kazuhiro Furuta , Hiroyasu Tajima

We report about the optical and electrical characterization of three high efficiency and blue sensitive Silicon photomultipliers from FBK, Hamamatsu, and SensL. Key features of the tested devices when operated at 90% breakdown probability…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-01-27 Adam Nepomuk Otte , Distefano Garcia , Thanh Nguyen , Dhruv Purushotham

The use of silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) in imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes is expected to extend the observation times of very-high-energy gamma-ray sources, particularly within the highest energy domain of 50-300 TeV, where…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-19 Akira Okumura , Kawori Wakazono , Kazuhiro Furuta , Hiroyasu Tajima

The SiPM is a novel solid state photodetector which can be operated in the single photon counting mode. It has excellent features, such as high quantum efficiency, good charge resolution, fast response, very compact size, high gain of 106,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-09-13 M. Teshima , B. Dolgoshein , R. Mirzoyan , J. Nincovic , E. Popova

A novel photon detector, the Silicon Photomultiplier (SiPM), has been tested in proximity focusing Ring Imaging Cherenkov (RICH) counters that were exposed to cosmic-ray particles in Ljubljana, and a 2 GeV electron beam at the KEK research…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2010-03-04 S. Korpar , I. Adachi , H. Chagani , R. Dolenec , K. Hara , T. Iijima , P. Krizan , S. Nishida , R. Pestotnik , A. Stanovnik

Silicon Photo-Multipliers (SiPMs) are detectors sensitive to single photons that are used to detect scintillation and Cherenkov light in a variety of physics and medical-imaging applications. SiPMs measure single photons by amplifying the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-10-23 G. Gallina , F. Retiere , P. Giampa , J. Kroeger , P. Margetak , S. Byrne Mamahit , A. De St. Croix , F. Edaltafar , N. Massacret , M. Ward , G. Zhang

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

We present a detailed investigation of the afterpulse effect in silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs), using a dedicated structure with single-cell readout. This enables direct measurement of intrinsic device properties and observation of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-05-13 P. Parygin , E. Garutti , E. Popova , J. Schwandt

For the high-luminosity phase of the Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC), at the expected position of the innermost pixel detector layer of the CMS and ATLAS experiments, the estimated equivalent neutron fluence after 3000 fb$^{-1}$ is…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-04-24 Joern Schwandt , Eckhart Fretwurst , Erika Garutti , Robert Klanner , Christian Scharf , Georg Steinbrueck

POLAR-2 is a space-borne polarimeter, built to investigate the polarization of Gamma-Ray Bursts and help elucidate their mechanisms. The instrument is targeted for launch in 2024 or 2025 aboard the China Space Station and is being developed…

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

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

The current understanding of radiation tollerance of Silicon Photomultipliers (SiPMs) is reviewd. Radiation damage in silicon sensors is briefly introduced, surface and bulk effects are separately addressed. Results on the operation of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-05-01 E. Garutti , Yu. Musienko

Silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) are semiconductor-based light-sensors offering a high gain, a mechanically and optically robust design and high photon detection efficiency. Due to these characteristics, they started to replace conventional…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-06-27 T. Bretz , R. Engel , T. Hebbeker , J. Kemp , L. Middendorf , C. Peters , J. Schumacher , R. Smida , D. Veberic