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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 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

Silicon avalanche photodiodes are the most sensitive photodetectors in the visible to near infrared region. However, when they are used for single photon detection in a Geiger mode, they are known to emit light on the controlled breakdown…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-07-24 Christian Kurtsiefer , Patrick Zarda , Sonja Mayer , Harald Weinfurter

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

Si- and Ge-based single-photon-avalanche-diodes (SPAD) are investigated by using self-consistent 3D Monte Carlo simulation, in a mixed-mode approach including the presence of a passive quenching circuit. This approach of transport allows us…

Silicon Photo-Multipliers (SiPM) are regarded as novel photo-detectors to replace conventional Photo-Multiplier Tubes (PMTs). However, the breakdown voltage dependence on the ambient temperature results in a gain variation of $\sim$3$\%…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-18 Zhengwei Li , Congzhan Liu , Yupeng Xu , Bo Yan , Yanguo Li , Xuefeng Lu , Xufang Li , Shuo Zhang , Zhi Chang , Jicheng Li , Yifei Zhang , Jianling Zhao

Silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) have become the preferred photodetectors in next-generation neutrino experiments, yet no unified closed-form analytical expression free of truncation and numerical convolution has been established for their…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-05-27 Yiqi Liu , Xuewei Liu , Benda Xu

We simulate streamers in air at standard temperature and pressure in a short overvolted gap. The simulation is performed with a 3D hybrid model that traces the single electrons and photons in the low density region, while modeling the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2011-12-01 Chao Li , Ute Ebert , Willem Hundsdorfer

Avalanche photodiodes (APDs) are the semiconducting analogue of photomultiplier tubes offering very high internal current gain and fast response. APDs are interesting for a wide range of applications in communications1, laser ranging2,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-11-13 Oriol Lopez-Sanchez , Dumitru Dumcenco , Edoardo Charbon , Andras Kis

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

A recent report on the over saturation in SiPMs is puzzling. The measurements, using a variety of SiPMs, show an excess in signal far beyond the physical limit of the number of SiPM microcells without indication of an ultimate saturation.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-07-06 Max Ludwig Ahnen

Silicon Photomultipliers (SiPMs) are state-of-the-art photon detectors used in particle physics, medical imaging, and beyond. They are sensitive to individual photons in the optical wavelength regime and achieve time resolutions of a few…

Avalanche photodiode (APD) has been intensively investigated as a promising candidate to replace photomultiplier tubes (PMT) for weak light detection. However, in conventional APDs, a large portion of carrier energy drawn from the electric…

A Silicon Photomultiplier, SiPM, is a metasystem of Avalanche Photodiodes, APDs, which embedded in a specific purpose electronic, becomes a metadevice with unique and useful advanced functionalities to capture, transmit and analyze…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-12-09 R. M. Gutierrez , A. I. Hernandez , L. F. Castaneda , J. F. Castano

Conventional silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) are well established as light detectors with single-photon-detection capability and used throughout high energy physics, medical, and commercial applications. The possibility to produce single…

Silicon photomultipliers are photon sensors based on an array of pixels, each consisting of a single photon avalanche photodiode (SPAD). Reading of the array is not done on a single-pixel basis, but all pixels are read simultaneously.…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-03-13 Valerio Bocci

This paper describes an experimental setup that has been developed to measure and characterise properties of Silicon Photomultipliers (SiPM). The measured SiPM properties are of general interest for a multitude of potential applications and…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-03-13 Patrick Eckert , Hans-Christian Schultz-Coulon , Wei Shen , Rainer Stamen , Alexander Tadday

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

We present a Python module for simulating Silicon Photo-Multipliers, Avalanche Photo-Diodes, and Multi-Pixel Photon Counters. This module allows users to perform noise analyses: Dark Count Rate, crosstalk, and afterpulsing. Furthermore, the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-04-15 J. Peña-Rodríguez , J. Förtsch , C. Pauly , K. -H. Kampert

We give an analytic treatment of the time resolution and efficiency of Single Photon Avalanche Diodes (SPADs) and Silicon Photomultipliers (SiPMs). We provide closed-form expressions for structures with uniform electric fields and efficient…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-05-05 Werner Riegler , Philipp Windischhofer