Performance and radiation damage mitigation strategy for silicon photomultipliers on LEO space missions
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DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2025/07/073
Abstract: Space missions require lightweight, low-power consuming, radiation-tolerant components. Silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) are increasingly used for detecting near-UV, optical, and infrared light in space due to their compact design, low cost, low power consumption, robustness, and… read more here.
Keywords: space; radiation; space missions; strategy ... See more keywords
Feasibility of PET detector readout by high-density Silicon Photomultipliers with epitaxial quenching resistors
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DOI: 10.1088/1748-0221/14/05/c05009
Abstract: Silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) have high gain, low bias voltage, excellent timing properties and are insensitive to magnetic fields, which have become the best readout choice for advanced positron emission tomography (PET) systems, such as PET/MRI… read more here.
Keywords: eqr sipm; feasibility pet; silicon photomultipliers; quenching resistors ... See more keywords
Direct detection of high intensity X-ray fluxes with silicon photomultipliers
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DOI: 10.1088/1748-0221/14/05/p05016
Abstract: Silicon Photomultipliers (SiPM) are photodetectors optimized for the detection of infrared to ultraviolet photons and employed in a wide range of fast timing applications for medical imaging and particle detectors. SiPMs are used to detect… read more here.
Keywords: ray; intensity ray; silicon photomultipliers; high intensity ... See more keywords
Multi-channel readout electronics of silicon photomultipliers for plastic scintillating fiber detector
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DOI: 10.1088/1748-0221/19/11/c11014
Abstract: A plastic scintillating fiber (SciFi) detector with one-dimensional highly segmented silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) readout can achieve much finer spatial resolution than conventional bulk plastic scintillator detectors. In this work, to construct a large-area SciFi detector… read more here.
Keywords: plastic scintillating; detector; scintillating fiber; multi channel ... See more keywords
Radiation hardness and annealing study of neutron-irradiated silicon photomultipliers
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DOI: 10.1088/1748-0221/20/06/c06033
Abstract: Silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) are semiconductor photodetectors increasingly used in high-energy physics experiments. In the planned upgrade of the Large Hadron Collider beauty (LHCb) experiment, they are considered to be used to detect Cherenkov photons in… read more here.
Keywords: temperature; radiation hardness; hardness annealing; neq cm2 ... See more keywords
Development, production, and testing of the Mu2e Calorimeter Silicon Photomultipliers
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DOI: 10.1088/1748-0221/20/08/p08004
Abstract: The development and production of the custom Silicon Photomultipliers (SiPMs) for the Mu2e Calorimeter (Mu2e SiPMs) was a complex endeavor, involving meticulous design, procurement, testing, and integration processes. After a thorough analysis of the calorimeter… read more here.
Keywords: calorimeter; mu2e calorimeter; development production; production ... See more keywords
VUV-Sensitive Silicon Photomultipliers for Xenon Scintillation Light Detection in nEXO
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DOI: 10.1109/tns.2018.2875668
Abstract: Future ton-scale liquefied noble gas detectors depend on efficient light detection in the vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) range. In the past years, silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) have emerged as a valid alternative to standard photomultiplier tubes or… read more here.
Keywords: silicon photomultipliers; scintillation light; xenon scintillation; light detection ... See more keywords
The use of silicon photomultipliers for improving the time resolution of an electromagnetic calorimeter based on lead tungstate crystals
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DOI: 10.1134/s002044121701002x
Abstract: The use of S12572 MPPC silicon photomultipliers (Hamamatsu) for improving the timing characteristics of the PHOS electromagnetic calorimeter in the ALICE experiment at CERN is described. It is shown that by introducing an additional photodetector,… read more here.
Keywords: time resolution; resolution; silicon photomultipliers; electromagnetic calorimeter ... See more keywords
Measuring nonclassicality with silicon photomultipliers.
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DOI: 10.1364/ol.44.001371
Abstract: Detector stochastic deviations from an ideal response can hamper the measurement of quantum properties of light, especially in the mesoscopic regime where photon-number resolution is required. We demonstrate that, by proper analysis of the output… read more here.
Keywords: nonclassicality silicon; measuring nonclassicality; silicon photomultipliers; nonclassicality ... See more keywords