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A Simple Apparatus for Testing PMT Humidity Tolerance

Instrumentation and Detectors 2025-09-25 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment Nuclear Experiment
Authors: A. Germer , K. Park , C. Skuse , C. Yang , D. S. Parno
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Abstract

We report on a low-cost apparatus to extend a photomultiplier tube (PMT) testing setup to operations at high humidity and/or at an elevated temperature. This setup allows a determination of whether a PMT can successfully operate for an extended period of time in a high-humidity environment, such as the waterline of a water Cherenkov detector.

Keywords

silicon photomultipliers sensors and measurement

Cite

@article{arxiv.2507.13545,
  title  = {A Simple Apparatus for Testing PMT Humidity Tolerance},
  author = {A. Germer and K. Park and C. Skuse and C. Yang and D. S. Parno},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.13545},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

9 pages, 7 figures. Final version accepted by JINST as technical report

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