TY - JOUR
T1 - Development of a Novel Single-Channel, 24 cm2, SiPM-Based, Cryogenic Photodetector
AU - D'Incecco, Marco
AU - Galbiati, Cristiano
AU - Giovanetti, Graham K.
AU - Korga, George
AU - Li, Xinran
AU - Mandarano, Andrea
AU - Razeto, Alessandro
AU - Sablone, Davide
AU - Savarese, Claudio
N1 - Funding Information:
Manuscript received August 28, 2017; revised November 2, 2017; accepted November 9, 2017. Date of publication November 16, 2017; date of current version January 17, 2018. This work was supported in part by NSF for Princeton University, USA, under Grant PHY-1314507, in part by the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Italy, in part by Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Italy, of INFN, and in part by Fermilab under the Department of Energy under Contract DE-AC02-07CH11359. (Corresponding author: Claudio Savarese.) M. D’Incecco is with INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, 67100 L’Aquila, Italy.
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PY - 2018/1
Y1 - 2018/1
N2 - We report on the realization of a novel silicon photomultiplier (SiPM)-based, cryogenic photosensor with an active area of 24 cm2 that operates as a single-channel analog detector. The device is capable of single-photon counting with a signal-to-noise ratio better than 13, a dark rate lower than 10-2 Hz/mm2, and an overall photon detection efficiency significantly larger than traditional photomultiplier tubes. This development makes SiPM-based photosensors strong candidates for the next generation of dark matter and neutrino detectors, which will require multiple square meters of photosensitive area, low levels of intrinsic radioactivity, and a limited number of detector channels.
AB - We report on the realization of a novel silicon photomultiplier (SiPM)-based, cryogenic photosensor with an active area of 24 cm2 that operates as a single-channel analog detector. The device is capable of single-photon counting with a signal-to-noise ratio better than 13, a dark rate lower than 10-2 Hz/mm2, and an overall photon detection efficiency significantly larger than traditional photomultiplier tubes. This development makes SiPM-based photosensors strong candidates for the next generation of dark matter and neutrino detectors, which will require multiple square meters of photosensitive area, low levels of intrinsic radioactivity, and a limited number of detector channels.
KW - Cryoelectronics
KW - large photodetectors
KW - low-noise electronics
KW - photon counting
KW - silicon photomultiplier (SiPM) arrays
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U2 - 10.1109/TNS.2017.2774779
DO - 10.1109/TNS.2017.2774779
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85035133740
SN - 0018-9499
VL - 65
SP - 591
EP - 596
JO - IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science
JF - IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science
IS - 1
M1 - 8113575
ER -