Abstract
We report on the cryogenic characterization of Red Green Blue - High Density (RGB-HD) SiPMs developed at Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK) as part of the DarkSide program of dark matter searches with liquid argon time projection chambers. A cryogenic setup was used to operate the SiPMs at varying temperatures and a custom data acquisition system and analysis software were used to precisely characterize the primary dark noise, the correlated noise, and the gain of the devices. We demonstrate that FBK RGB-HD SiPMs with low quenching resistance (RGB-HD-LRq) can be operated from 40 K to 300 K with gains in the range 105 to 106 and noise rates at a level of around 1 Hz/mm2.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 09030 |
Number of pages | 11 |
Journal | Journal of Instrumentation |
Volume | 12 |
Issue number | 9 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 26 Sep 2017 |
Keywords
- Cryogenic detectors
- Photon detectors for UV, visible and IR photons (solid-state)
- Photon detectors forUV, visible and IR photons (solid-state) (PIN diodes, APDs, Si-PMTs, G-APDs, CCDs, EBCCDs, EMCCDs etc)
- 1ST PROTOTYPES
- Photon detectors forUV
- SILICON
- visible and IR photons (solid-state) (PIN diodes, APDs, Si-PMTs, G-APDs, CCDs, EBCCDs, EMCCDs ,etc)
- Photon detectors for UV
- visible and IR photons (solid-state)
- ITC-IRST