Prof.
Ziraddin Sadygov
(JINR)
6/11/18, 10:40 AM
A brief history on the development of the micropixel avalanche photodiodes – MAPDs (or silicon photomultipliers SiPMs) is presented since the 80s years of the last century. It is shown that the main problem in creation of APDs with high gain was appearance the local uncontrolled breakdowns in the p-n junctions. The following topics concerning the stages of developments of the modern SiPMs are...
Dr
Razmick Mirzoyan
(MPI Physik)
6/11/18, 11:40 AM
Talk
Prof.
Karl Ziemons
(Aachen University of Applied Sciences)
6/11/18, 2:00 PM
Mr
Ardavan Ghassemi
(Hamamatsu)
6/11/18, 3:15 PM
Dr
Deborah Herbert
(SensL Technologies)
6/11/18, 4:15 PM
SensL SiPM sensors have been in mass production for many years. To ensure quality and reliability, characterisation and qualification procedures are in place that can process high volumes in a short amount of time.
Increasingly SiPMs are being used in new applications, in particular as the reciever element in LiDAR systems. LiDAR is a ranging technique that typically uses NIR light which...
Katharina Henjes-Kunst
(DESY)
6/11/18, 5:15 PM
SENSE is a project funded by the EC Horizon 2020 as FET Open Coordination and Support Action (CSA).
Within the project a European R&D roadmap towards the ultimate LLL sensor was developed and with the experts group the progress in developments with respect to the roadmap will be monitored.
In addition, a collaboration between several labs experienced in measuring photosensors was developed...
Mr
Claudio Piemonte
(Broadcom)
6/11/18, 5:35 PM
Talk
Scintillator-based detectors have been very successful in high energy physics (HEP) calorimetry, medical imaging, and many other applications. In particular, the potential of such detectors to achieve precise timing information is of increasing importance for those applications. The demand to discriminate between closely spaced bunch trains in future highest luminosity accelerators and to...
Frédéric Vachon
(University of Sherbrooke)
6/12/18, 9:30 AM
The information extracted from the characterization of Silicon Photomultipliers (SiPM) is a key element to their future technological development. These experimental data allow SiPM manufacturers to refine their devices and make them more efficient. As there are several methods of characterization across the scientific community, it is essential to define measurement standards to obtain...
Mr
Michael Wagenpfeil
(Erlangen University)
6/12/18, 9:50 AM
The nEXO experiment will operate an ultra-low background TPC filled with $5$\,tons of isotopically enriched liquid Xenon~(LXe) to search for the neutrinoless double beta ($0\nu\beta\beta$) decay of Xe-136. The detector will use $4\,\text{m}^2$~of SiPM tiles operated at~$-104^{\circ}\text{C}$ to collect the scintillation light from any events in the xenon. There are strong requirements on the...
A. Nepomuk Otte
(Georgia Tech)
6/12/18, 10:30 AM
Photon Detection Efficiency
Delia Tosi
(WIPAC / University of Wisconsin Madison)
6/12/18, 11:15 AM
IceCube is a cubic-kilometer neutrino detector installed in the ice at the geographic South Pole. It comprises a deep-ice detector (installed between 1450 and 2450 m under the ice surface) and a surface array called IceTop, featuring 162 tanks with frozen water. More than five thousand photomultipliers detect the Cherenkov light emitted by charged particles; these detections are used to...
Dr
Andrii Nagai
(University of Geneva)
6/12/18, 11:35 AM
This work reports on the behavior of the Silicon Photomultiplier (SiPM) detector under continuous light illumination. Large area ~ 1 cm$^2$ hexagonal SiPM S10943-2832(X) produced by Hamamatsu HPK for the single mirror small size telescope SST-1M (one of the projects proposed for the implementation of the small size telescopes of the Cherenkov Telescope Array CTA) has been used for studies. The...
Mr
Dominik Neise
(ETH Zurich)
6/12/18, 11:55 AM
The First G-APD Cherenkov Telescope (FACT) is pioneering the usage of SiPM in Imaging Atmospheric
Cherenkov Telescopes. Its camera consists of 1440 SiPM, each coupled to a solid light-guide and an
individual read out. In October 2011, the camera was installed in a refurbished telescope structure
with a mirror area of 9.5m^2 at the Canary island La Palma, and successful data taking...
Mr
Alexander Hahn
(MPI Physik)
6/12/18, 12:15 PM
MAGIC is a system of two imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes (IACTs) operated by an international collaboration at the Canary island of La Palma. Like all large-size IACTs (>12 m diameter), MAGIC uses imaging cameras consisting of more than a thousand photomultiplier tubes (PMTs). The modular assembly of the camera and the design of its structure offer the possibility to install a maximum...
Dr
Nikolay Anfimov
(JINR)
6/12/18, 2:00 PM
Dr
Yonathan Munwes
(Heidelberg University)
6/12/18, 2:10 PM
The CALICE collaboration have studies different concepts for the hadronic calorimeters for a future linear collider detector. The Analog Hadronic Calorimeter (AHCAL) concept is a sampling calorimeter of tungsten or steel absorber plates using plastic scintillator tiles read out by silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) as active material.
SiPMs evolved to match scintillator light wavelength, allows...
Dr
Nikolay Anfimov
(JINR)
6/12/18, 4:30 PM
Dr
Stefan Gundacker
(CERN)
6/13/18, 9:00 AM
Mr
Esteban Venialgo
(Delft University of Technology)
6/13/18, 9:30 AM
Single-photon timing resolution (SPTR) is a key parameter for SiPM that influences the system-level timing performance, e.g. in applications such as positron emission tomography (PET), correlated photon detection or ranging (LiDAR). Appropriate standardization of SPTR in digital silicon photomultipliers (D-SiPMs) encounters a challenge as it is dependent of the electronic readout architecture,...
Dr
Stefan Gundacker
(CERN)
6/13/18, 10:10 AM
The rapidly growing use of silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) makes it necessary to standardize the various parameters related to this device with the final goal of rendering measurements comparable within different research groups and the industry. This summary talk will focus on the intrinsic timing parameters of SiPMs, i.e. the single photon time resolution (SPTR).
We will present our...
Fabrice Retiere
(TRIUMF)
6/13/18, 11:00 AM
Dr
Albert Lehmann
(Erlangen University)
6/13/18, 11:45 AM
PANDA is a hadron physics experiment at the FAIR facility at GSI which will employ a high intensity antiproton beam of up to 15 GeV/c to do high precision studies of, among others, objectives like charmonium spectroscopy and search for gluonic excitations. These measurements require a robust and compact PID system with excellent timing capabilities placed inside a magnetic field of $>$1 Tesla....
Dr
Sergey Vinogradov
(Lebedev Physical Institute)
6/13/18, 2:20 PM
SiPM noises are very complicated in general due to a presence of correlated processes, namely, crosstalk and afterpulsing. From a statistical point of view, SiPM noises are stochastic processes contributing to a total SiPM response charge. The charge is a random variable which could be completely characterized by its probability distribution. Partial characterization of the SiPM response by...
Mr
Eugen Engelmann
(KETEK)
6/13/18, 2:40 PM
Talk
Dr
Derek Strom
(MPI Physik)
6/13/18, 4:00 PM
Silicon Photomultipliers (SiPMs) are attractive light detectors for high energy and
astroparticle physics experiments. They are compact in size, have fast (few ns) response
time, operate at lower voltage compared to classical photomultiplier tubes, are insensitive
to magnetic fields, and the newer samples offer photon detection efficiencies of > 40%. The optical cross-talk effect,...
Mr
Giacomo Gallina
(TRIUMF)
6/13/18, 4:20 PM
Efficient and low noise detection of vacuum ulta-violet (VUV) scintillation photons is critical for the nEXO experiment to achieve its projected sensitivity to zero-neutrino double beta decays. VUV SiPMs are being developed by Fondazione Bruno Kessler and Hamamatsu Photonics to fulfill nEXO’s requirements. It is desirable to operate the SiPMs at high over-voltage in order to achieve maximum...
Hiroyasu Tajima
(Nagoya University)
6/13/18, 4:40 PM
Compared to conventional photomultiplier tubes (PMTs), silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) based on multi-cell geiger-mode avalanche photodiodes (GAPDs) have advantages with regards to photon detection efficiency, compactness, robustness and tolerance of both magnetic fields and intense light sources. In addition, SiPMs can be cost effective for applications that require many channels with small...
Dr
Johannes Breuer
(Siemens Healthineers)
6/13/18, 5:00 PM
Talk
Dr
Alberto Gola
(FBK)
6/13/18, 5:20 PM
Thomas Tsang
(BNL)
6/14/18, 9:00 AM
Radiation Hardness
Dr
Slawomir Mianowski
(National Centre for Nuclear Research)
6/14/18, 9:50 AM
During my talk I would like to show and discuss results of evolution of MPPC properties during irradiation by neutrons. Two models of Multi-Pixel Photon Counters: S13360-3050CS and S13360-6050CS from Hamamatsu with different size (3x3 mm$^{-2}$ and 6x6 mm$^{-2}$, respectively) and the same subpixel pitch size (50 $\mu m$) were irradiated by neutrons from two sources: PuBe source with...
Prof.
Daniel Durini Romero
(FZ Jülich / INAOE)
6/14/18, 10:10 AM
Small Angle Neutron Scattering (SANS) technique uses cold or thermal neutrons for investigation of soft and condensed matter. Significant developments in microelectronics enabled the use of scintillation-based pixelated neutron detectors that exploit Silicon Photomultipliers (SiPM) for detecting visible light generated within a scintillator, in our case a 1 mm thick Ce-doped 6Li-glass [1]. We...
Prof.
Robert Klanner
(Hamburg University)
6/14/18, 11:10 AM
SiPMs with 4384 pixels of 15 µm x 15 µm produced by KETEK have been irradiated with reactor neutrons to fluences between 10^9 and 5 10^14 cm-2. After the irradiation C-V, I-V, and current transients with and without pulsed light have been performed at +20°C and –30°C. No annealing, in addition to the annealing during the transport and the measurements, has been applied. Outside of the...
Thomas Tsang
(BNL)
6/14/18, 11:30 AM
Radiation Hardness
Dr
David Gascon
(University of Barcelona)
6/14/18, 11:45 AM
Review of SiPM model, front end circuits for SiPM readout, digitization techniques, System-On-chip solution and new trends.
Dr
David Gascon
(University of Barcelona)
6/14/18, 12:15 PM
Prof.
Hans-Christian Schultz-Coulon
(Heidelberg University)
6/14/18, 2:00 PM
Nowadays many new scintillator-based and Cherenkov-radiation-based detectors
in particle physics use or plan to use Silicon Photomultipliers (SiPMs) for
reading out the produced light pulses. The talk will present some of the
considered detector concepts, the status of the corresponding development
and the SiPM features most relevant for the different applications.
Dr
Sergey Vinogradov
(Lebedev Physical Institute)
6/14/18, 4:00 PM
Nonlinearity and Saturation
Dr
Sergey Vinogradov
(Lebedev Physical Institute)
6/14/18, 4:10 PM
SiPM is an inherently nonlinear detector. Nonlinearity and saturation effects are originated from excess random losses of photon detection events due to a limited number of SiPM cells and non-instant recovery of the cells. From a statistical point of view, SiPM nonlinearity and saturation could be completely characterized by a probability distribution of a SiPM response in a required range of...
Mr
Jian Liu
(Beijing Normal University)
6/14/18, 4:50 PM
We present a new method, Double Light Superposition (DLS) to characterize the dynamic range (DR) of silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs). This self-calibrated technique does not need the calibration procedures for the intensity of the light source from single photon to the level of SiPM saturation, makes the measurement easy and robust, thus can be a candidate of standard for DR measurement of...
Mr
Sascha Krause
(Mainz University)
6/14/18, 5:10 PM
We present the experimental method and a corresponding setup to measure the response of SiPM as a function of incoming light intensity. In particular, the saturation behavior is investigated. The method introduces a calibrated quantity to measure the incoming number of photons independently of the photon detection efficiency and the optical crosstalk of the SiPM. In this way, different sensors...
Dr
Sergey Vinogradov
(Lebedev Physical Institute)
6/14/18, 5:30 PM
Adam Para
(Fermilab)
6/15/18, 9:00 AM
Cryogenic Properties
Dr
Wataru Ootani
(Tokyo University)
6/15/18, 9:15 AM
Talk
Dr
Adriano Di Giovanni
(New York University Abu Dhabi)
6/15/18, 9:35 AM
We present the performances and characterization of an array made of Hamamatsu S13370-3050CN (VUV4 generation) Multi-Pixel Photon Counters for the detection of VUV scintillation light in liquid xenon based applications. The array is readout as a single channel and it is capable of single photon detection making the device a promising option for future generation of neutrino and dark matter...
Mr
Christopher Hils
(Mainz University)
6/15/18, 9:55 AM
Liquid Xenon Time Projection Chambers (LXeTPC) are used in rare event searches for Dark Matter, neutrinoless double beta decay or in applications as Compton telescope or camera where the noble medium offers a combination of scintillation light and ionization that can be used to build large, uniform 3D position sensitive detectors. We test the feasibility of replacing the common used...
Mr
Maik Biroth
(Mainz University)
6/15/18, 10:15 AM
Silicon photomultipliers are important in liquid
argon detectors of short-baseline neutrino oscillation
experiments. Furthermore, in spin-polarized proton and deuteron
targets of photoproduction experiments, SiPMs are used for recoil
identification down to absolute zero temperature.
For these and future applications a characterization over the full
cryogenic temperature range is...
Dr
Wataru Ootani
(University of Tokyo)
6/15/18, 11:05 AM
A liquid xenon photon detector based on highly granular scintillation readout by 4092 VUV-sensitive MPPCs is in preparation for the MEG II experiment.
The VUV-MPPCs have been commissioned and operated in the liquid xenon detector in 2017. The performance of the VUV-MPPCs measured in the commissioning as well as the results from an in-beam test of the liquid xenon detector will be presented.
Dr
Andrii Nagai
(University of Geneva)
6/15/18, 11:25 AM
Many important SiPM parameters, like breakdown voltage, signal shape, gain, dark count rate, afterpulses probability present significant temperature variations. Therefore, a study of these parameters in a wide temperature range, down to cryogenic temperatures allows to have a closer look to the physical phenomena staying behind this temperature dependence and eventually find equivalent...
Adam Para
(Fermilab)
6/15/18, 11:45 AM
Cryogenic Properties
Ms
Yu Peng
(Beijing Normal University)
6/15/18, 12:00 PM
Silicon photomultipliers (SiPM) is considered to be a good replacement for photomultiplier tube (PMT) and avalanche photodiodes (APD) in high energy physics, which benefits from its high internal gain, good compactness, excellent timing performance, robustness and insensitivity to magnetic fields. However, pixelated SiPM array generally used in high-resolving scintillation imaging...
Cyril Alispach
(Université de Genève)
Large Scale Characterization and Reliability
Poster
The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will comprise a sub-array of up to 70 small sized telescopes (SSTs) in the southern array. Different implementations are proposed for the SSTs but all of them feature Silicon Photo-Multpliers (SiPM), which can guarantee excellent performance and allow observation also under moonlight increasing the observational time and then physics reach. The SST-1M...
Dr
Vassily Kushpil
(NPI of ASCR)
Electrical Properties
Poster
The aim of this study is to understand a changing of SiPM structure after irradiation. We compared profile of electric field in SiPM (KETEK) active region for ten not-irradiated and irradiated detectors. Standard method of measurement of C-V characteristics was applied using two configurations (serial and parallel circuit) to exclude an influence of the serial resistance. Dependencies of...
Mr
Mathieu Dupont
(CPPM CNRS/AMU)
Miscellaneous and others
Poster
The aim of this work is to implement a model of Silicon PhotoMultiplier (SiPM) that can be used to simulate scintillator-based spectrometers implementing SiPMs with the GATE simulation platform.
GATE is a Monte Carlo simulation tool built on top of GEANT4 developed in order to ease the simulation of medical imaging systems like PET scanners. The use of SiPMs, instead of PMTs in PET scanners...
Mr
Johannes Schumacher
(RWTH Aachen University)
Nonlinearity and Saturation
Poster
In this talk, we will present an integrated optical module based on SiPMs optimized for applications in plastic scintillator detectors. Hosting two 25 $\mu$m SiPMs in parallel, three independent pre-amplifier channels are necessary to exploit the full dynamic range of the SiPMs of about $10^6$. Light guides increase the sensitive area which are optimized for the read-out of wavelength shifting...
Dr
Vassily Kushpil
(NPI of ASCR)
Radiation Hardness
Talk
A readout module developed and produced in LHEP JINR (Dubna, Russia) containing 10 channels of scintillators, SiPM photo-sensors, amplifiers and high voltage control circuit was investigated for two years at NPI of ASCR (Rez, Czech Republic) at a neutron source with a spectrum of 6-35 MeV.
The module was investigated for study the possibilities of SiPM applications in position-sensitive...
Mr
Arseniy Rybnikov
(JINR)
Large Scale Characterization and Reliability
Poster
The electromagnetic calorimeter ECAL0 is additional calorimeter for the upgraded COMPASS II experiment. A Hamamatsu MPPC S12572-10P was chosen as readout photosensor in order to meet the detector's requirements as: high dynamic range, low recovery time, etc. During 2015 about 2 000 photosensors were thoroughly tested. In this talk mass testing methods and criteria which we used for SiPM...
Lukas Gruber
(CERN)
Large Scale Characterization and Reliability
Poster
LHCb will undergo a major upgrade during LHC LS2 in 2019/2020 to cope with increased instantaneous luminosities and a trigger-less 40 MHz read-out. The current inner and outer tracking detectors will be replaced by a single homogeneous detector based on scintillating fibres.
The Scintillating Fibre (SciFi) tracker covers an area of 340 m$^2$ by using more than 10,000 km of scintillating...
Mr
Azer Sadigov
(National Nuclear Research Center), Mr
Farid Ahmadov
(National Academy of Science)
Timing Properties
Poster
The design and operation principle of a new avalanche photon detector are presented. The innovative avalanche photon detector consists of a matrix of photosensitive micropixels with individual quenching resistors, as in the known SiPM with surface pixels, and a matrix of microtransistors with individual ballast resistors. The new device has two independent signal outputs; standard output from...
Mr
Farid Ahmadov
(ANAS)
Electrical Properties
Poster
A new physical model of avalanche process with single photon detection capabilities is presented in various Geiger mode photodiodes. The model describes development of avalanche process in time, taking into account the space charge resistance as well as the change of electric field in the avalanche region caused by internal discharge and external recharge currents. Results of simulations are...
