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Silicon photomultiplier (SiPM), as the core photoelectric sensor for coherent neutrino detection in low-temperature pure CsI, its working performance directly determines the measurement accuracy of the scintillator light yield. Our previous…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-10-29 Tao Liu , Xilei Sun , Fengjiao Luo , Jingbo Ye , Bo Zheng , Cong Guo , Zhilong Hou , Rongbin Zhou , Aiqin Gao , Lei Cao , Bo Zhang , Sijia Han

Silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) are a good alternative to photomultiplier tubes (PMTs) because their gain and quantum efficiency are comparable to PMTs. However, the largest single-chip SiPM is still less than 1~cm$^2$. In order to use…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-11-17 Felix Liang , Hartmut Brands , Les Hoy , Jeff Preston , Jason Smith

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

We are developing a novel high-brightness atomic beam, comprised of a two-body exotic atom called muonium (M $ = \mu^+ + e^-$), for next-generation atomic physics and gravitational interaction measurements. This M source originates from a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-06-29 J. Zhang , D. Goeldi , R. Iwai , M. Sakurai , A. Soter

Silicon Photomultipliers (SiPMs) are considered as a solid-state sensor alternative to photomultiplier tubes in experiments using liquid xenon (LXe) as a radiation detection medium. The main requirements are single-photon detection of the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-11-14 Laura Baudis , Michelle Galloway , Alexander Kish , Chris Marentini , Julien Wulf

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

We have studied the feasibility of a silicon photomultiplier (SiPM) to detect liquid xenon (LXe) scintillation light. The SiPM was operated inside a small volume of pure LXe, at -95 degree Celsius, irradiated with an internal Am-241 alpha…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2009-11-11 E. Aprile , P. Cushman , K. Ni , P. Shagin

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

We present experimental results of characterization of Silicon photomultipliers (SiPM) in a temperature range from 90~mK to 40~K. Two SiPMs, one from ONSEMI and one from Hamamatsu Photonics were tested. Operating voltage ranges, dark count…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-01-13 Otto Hanski , Tom Kiilerich , Sampsa Ahopelto , Aleksei Semakin , Janne Ahokas , Viacheslav Dvornichenko , Sergey Vasiliev

Next generation multi-ton scale noble liquid experiments have the unique opportunity to discover dark matter particles at the TeV scale, reaching the sensitivity of 10^-48 cm2 in the WIMP nucleon scattering cross-section. A prerequisite…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-01-07 S. Catalanotti , A. G. Cocco , G. Covone , M. D Incecco , G. Fiorillo , G. Korga , B. Rossi , S. Walker

The analog hadron calorimeter for the International Linear Collider (ILC) of the CALICE collaboration utilized novel silicon detectors, the Sillicon Photomultipliers (SiPMs), for the detection of scintillation light coming from very small…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2012-11-28 Michal Tesař , Christian Jendrysik , Jelena Ninković , Frank Simon

We report on the scintillation characterization of a 1 cm^3 CsI(Tl) crystal coupled to a 6 x 6 mm^2 SiPM read out with a custom transimpedance amplifier at cryogenic temperatures. The crystal was prepared with optical-grade surfaces and…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-11-19 M. Mirzakhani , R. Mahapatra , M. Platt

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

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

Silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) have a low radioactivity, compact geometry, low operation voltage, and reasonable photo-detection efficiency for vacuum ultraviolet light (VUV). Therefore it has the potential to replace photomultiplier…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-03-24 K. Ozaki , S. Kazama , M. Yamashita , Y. Itow , S. Moriyama

The performance of a silicon photomultiplier has been assessed at low temperature in order to evaluate its suitability as a scintillation readout device in liquid argon particle physics detectors. The gain, measured as 2.1E6 for a constant…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2011-06-09 P. K. Lightfoot , G. J. Barker , K. Mavrokoridis , Y. A. Ramachers , N. J. C. Spooner

Scintillators capable of detecting both neutrons and gamma-rays have generated considerable interest. In particular, the use of such scintillators with silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) enables low-power and compact-geometry applications.…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-08-29 Felix Liang , Hartmut Brands , Les Hoy , Jeff Preston , Jason Smith

The LHCb experiment at CERN has been upgraded for the Run 3 operation of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). A new concept of tracking detector based on Scintillating Fibres (SciFi) read out with multichannel silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs)…

We compared the performance of a SiPM array and a PMT in a laboratory setting using a single 5.08x5.08-cm cylindrical sodium iodide scintillating crystal. Photomultiplier tubes (PMTs) are the most commonly used device to monitor…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-01-23 Tyana Stiegler , Kareem Kazkaz , Erik Swanberg , Vladimir Mozin

The MCORD detector is a modular scintillator-based system employing silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) and FPGA-based digital signal processing, designed for applications such as cosmic muon detection, veto systems, and detector calibration…

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