Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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1828379 | Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment | 2009 | 5 Pages |
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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Authors
P.S. Marrocchesi, M.G. Bagliesi, K. Batkov, G. Bigongiari, M.Y. Kim, T. Lomtadze, P. Maestro, F. Morsani, R. Zei,