Conveners
Silicon Photomultiplier
- Marko Mikuz (Jozef Stefan Institute (SI))
The peculiar features of SiPMs, such as their compact size, insensitivity to magnetic fields, low power consumption and mechanical robustness make them very promising as photosensors in calorimeters and precision timing detectors in the future generation of high energy physics experiments. In these contexts, a critical aspect is the radiation hardness of the silicon detector. Currently...
Silicon Photomultipliers (SiPMs) are very sensitive light detectors made by arrays of many Single-photon avalanche diodes (SPADs) connected in parallel. They are becoming more and more important in an increasing number of applications, such as high-energy physics experiments (e.g. photodetectors in the future upgrade of the CMS calorimeter) or more recently for reading out liquid noble-gasses...
A UV-sensitive SiPM incorporating an internal ALD filter is under development by a Caltech/FBK/emphasized textJPL group. The filter provides efficient detection of the 220 nm fast scintillation component of BaF$_2$ scintillation light together with strong discrimination of the larger 300 nm slow scintillation component. Measurements on a 6 mm $\times$ 6 mm device will be presented, including...
We present here the concept and results of a charged particle detector based on a novel inorganic scintillator coupled to a hybrid photodetector (HPD). The newly developed inorganic scintillator has a decay time ≤ 0.5 ns, high photon yield and long-lifetime. Together with the HPD, the detector exhibits a single electron pulse width of ≤ 0.7 ns, while allowing for quantitative detection over a...
