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This publication focuses on the study of silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) in view of a reconstruction of the incident photon flux in the regime of highly non-linear response. SiPMs are semiconductor based light detectors compiled of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-10-29 T. Bretz , T. Hebbeker , J. Kemp

Silicon Photomultipliers (SiPMs) have been widely adopted for photon detection in next-generation dark matter and neutrino detection experiments. Internal crosstalk, resulting from secondary photons produced during charge avalanches, is a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-09-09 L. Wang , H. Lewis , F. Retière , A. de St Croix

Silicon Photomultipliers (SiPM), also so-called Solid State Photomultipliers (SSPM), are based on Geiger mode avalanche breakdown limited by strong negative feedback. SSPM can detect and resolve single photons due to high gain and ultra-low…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2012-03-30 S. Vinogradov

Silicon photomultipliers present saturation effects as they have a limited number of pixels and work in Geiger mode. Their response to light pulses in the nonlinear region is very complex for two reasons: pixel recharging after an avalanche…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-12-26 Jaime Rosado

This study investigates the characteristics of Silicon Photomultipliers (SiPMs) with different pixel densities, focusing on their response across a wide dynamic range. Using an experimental setup that combines laser source and…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-07-26 Zhiyu Zhao , Baohua Qi , Shu Li , Yong Liu

In typical single-pixel detection multiplexing, an unknown object is sequentially illuminated with intensity patterns: the total signal is summed into a single-pixel detector and is then demultiplexed to retrieve the object. Because of…

Optics · Physics 2022-04-14 Camille Scotté , Frédéric Galland , Hervé Rigneault

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

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

Photo-multiplier tubes (PMTs) and silicon photo-multipliers (SiPMs) are detectors sensitive to single photons that are widely used for the detection of scintillation and Cerenkov light in subatomic physics and medical imaging. This paper…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-03-14 A. Butcher , L. Doria , J. Monroe , F. Retiere , B. Smith , J. Walding

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

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

Silicon photomultiplier (SiPM), a new type of photosensor, is considered a substitute for traditional photomultiplier tube (PMT) in the next generation of dark matter and neutrino detectors, especially in noble gas detectors like liquid…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-05-31 T. A. Wang , C. Guo , X. H. Liang , L. Wang , M. Y. Guan , C. G. Yang , J. C. Liu , F. Y. Lin

We present an analog silicon photomultiplier (SiPM) based on a standard 55 nm Bipolar-CMOS-DMOS (BCD) technology. The SiPM is composed of 16$\times$16 single-photon avalanche diodes (SPADs) and measures 0.29$\times$0.32 mm$^2$. Each SPAD…

Optical cross-talk is a critical characteristic of Silicon Photomultipliers (SiPMs) and represents a significant source of the excess noise factor, exerting a substantial influence on detector performance. During the avalanche process of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-12-21 Y. Guan , N. Anfimov , G. Cao , Z. Xie , Q. Dai , D. Fedoseev , K. Kuznetsova , A. Rybnikov , A. Selyunin , A. Sotnikov

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

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

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, thanks to their excellent performance, robustness and relatively simple use, are the photon-detectors of choice for many present and future applications. This paper gives an overview of methods to characterise…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-12-19 Robert Klanner

This paper reports on the behaviour of Silicon Photomultiplier (SiPM) detectors under continuous light. Usually, the bias circuit of a SiPM has a resistor connected in series to it, which protects the sensor from drawing too high current.…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-01-29 A. Nagai , C. Alispach , D. della Volpe , M. Heller , T. Montaruli , S. Njoh , Y. Reniera , I. Troyano-Pujadas

In this article we describe the photon detection readout electronics for the nEDM@SNS experiment. The chosen "photon counting" architecture, which utilizes high-efficiency silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) and is appropriate for low-light…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-09-28 V. Cianciolo , Yu. V. Efremenko , L. Fabris , S. K. Imam , S. I. Penttila J. C. Ramsey , R. Santos Estrada