Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
1828379 Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment 2009 5 Pages PDF
Abstract

Solid-state photodetectors working in the Geiger mode—known as Silicon PhotoMultipliers (SiPM) or MultiPixel Photon Counters (MPPC)—are currently being developed with increasingly large active areas. Potential applications for low-light-level detection were investigated with a 9mm2 MPPC, recently made available by Hamamatsu. The device was optically coupled with a scintillator and its performances, in terms of single photoelectron discrimination, were studied in a series of measurements under different operating conditions. An active control of the gain was implemented by a linear feedback on the operating voltage. The results of the tests are discussed.

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