15–20 Feb 2010
TU Vienna
Europe/Vienna timezone

Tests of a Silicon Photomultiplier Module for Detection of Cherenkov Photons

18 Feb 2010, 17:25
25m
HS 1 (TU Vienna)

HS 1

TU Vienna

Wiedner Hauptstrasse 8-10 Vienna, Austria
Contributed Talk Particle ID 4

Speaker

Mr Rok Dolenec (Institut "Jožef Stefan")

Description

Silicon photomultipliers, whose main advantage over conventional photomultiplier tubes is the operation in high magnetic fields, have been considered as position sensitive, single photon detector in a proximity focusing RICH with aerogel radiator. A module, consisting of 64 (8x8) Hamamatsu MPPCS10362-11-100P silicon photomultipliers, has been constructed and tested with Cherenkov photons emitted in an aerogel radiator by 120 GeV/c pions from the CERN T4-H6 beam. In order to increase the efficiency, i.e. the effective surface on which light is detected, the potential of using light concentrators has been investigated.

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http://www-f9.ijs.si/~rokd/sipm-rich-09.pdf

Author

Mr Rok Dolenec (Institut "Jožef Stefan")

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