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With the development of the Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Technique (IACT), Gamma-ray astronomy has become one of the most interesting and productive fields of astrophysics. Current IACT telescope arrays (MAGIC, H.E.S.S, VERITAS) use…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-04 D. Guberman , J. Cortina , J. E. Ward , A. Hahn , D. Mazin , J. Boix , A. Dettlaff , D. Fink , J. Gaweda , W. Haberer , J. Illa , J. Mundet , Y. Vera , H. Wetteskind

The ALICE Collaboration is proposing a completely new apparatus, ALICE 3, for the LHC Run 5 and beyond. A key subsystem for charged particle identification will be a Ring-Imaging Cherenkov (RICH) detector consisting of an aerogel radiator…

In this paper, different Silicon PhotoMultiplier (SiPM) sensors have been tested with charged particles to characterize the Cherenkov light produced in the sensor protection layer. A careful position scan of the SiPM response has been…

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

This work introduces an advanced technique optimized for detecting photons generated by charged particles, leveraging Skipper-CCD sensors. By analyzing background sources and detection efficiencies, the technique achieves strong agreement…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-10 Guillermo Fernandez Moroni , Fernando Chierchie , Lucas Giardino , Javier Tiffenberg , Juan Estrada

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

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

Silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) are currently the most prevalent photon detection technology in modern experiments in high-energy physics, astroparticle physics, neutrino physics, and dark matter searches. The high detection efficiency for…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-03-31 Tanay Dey , Suraj Shaw , Ritabrata Banerjee , Pratik Majumdar , Satyaki Bhattacharya

In this study we present first results from a new detector of UV photons: a thick gaseous electron multiplier (GEM) with resistive electrodes, combined with CsI or CsTe/CsI photocathodes. The hole type structure considerably suppresses the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2008-11-26 J. M. Bidault , P. Fonte , T. Francke , P. Galy , V. Peskov , I. Rodionov

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

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…

Metalenses are optical devices that implement nanostructures as phase shifters to focus incident light. Their compactness and simple fabrication make them a potential cost-effective solution for increasing light collection efficiency in…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-12-30 A. A. Loya Villalpando , J. Martin-Albo , W. T. Chen , R. Guenette , C. Lego , J. S. Park , F. Capasso

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

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

Large-area silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) are desired in many applications where large surfaces have to be covered. For instance, a large area SiPM has been developed by Hamamatsu Photonics in collaboration with the University of Geneva,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-08 Nicolas De Angelis , David Gascón , Sergio Gómez , Matthieu Heller , Teresa Montaruli , Andrii Nagai

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

Plastic scintillation detectors represent an efficient, cost-effective, customizable solution for assessment of gamma radiation fields in the context of nuclear security, environmental radiation survey, radiological and nuclear incidents…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-12-08 Paolo Tancioni , Ulisse Gendotti

High-granularity homogeneous electromagnetic calorimeters based on scintillating crystals and silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) are a promising option for future $e^{+}e^{-}$ Higgs factories, where both excellent energy resolution and a very…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-03-10 Zhiyu Zhao , Dejing Du , Shu Li , Yong Liu , Baohua Qi , Jack Rolph , Haijun Yang

Astronomical observations with gamma rays in the range of several hundred keV to hundreds of MeV currently represent the least explored energy range. To address this so-called MeV gap, we designed and built a prototype CsI:Tl calorimeter…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-18 Daniel Shy , Richard S. Woolf , Eric A. Wulf , Clio C. Sleator , Mary Johnson-Rambert , W. Neil Johnson , J. Eric Grove , Bernard F. Phlips

The Silicon Photomultiplier (SiPM) is a mature photodetector concept that is applied in a variety of applications ranging from medical imaging to automotive LiDAR systems. Over the last few years, improvements of the sensor performance are…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-10-21 Eugen Engelmann , Wolfgang Schmailzl , Peter Iskra , Florian Wiest , Elena Popova , Sergey Vinogradov