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Batch VUV4 characterization for the SBC-LAr10 scintillating bubble chamber
Journal of instrumentation, v 19(8), pT08003
01 Aug 2024
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Abstract
The Scintillating Bubble Chamber (SBC) collaboration purchased 32 Hamamatsu VUV4 silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) for use in SBC-LAr10, a bubble chamber containing 10 kg of liquid argon. A dark-count characterization technique, which avoids the use of a single-photon source, was used at two temperatures to measure the VUV4 SiPMs breakdown voltage (V-BD), the SiPM gain (g(SiPM)), the rate of change of g(SiPM) with respect to voltage (m), the dark count rate (DCR), and the probability of a correlated avalanche (P-CA) as well as the temperature coefficients of these parameters. A Peltier-based chilled vacuum chamber was developed at Queen's University to cool down the Quads to 233.15 +/- 0.2 K and 255.15 +/- 0.2 K with average stability of +/- 20 mK. An analysis framework was developed to estimate V-BD to tens of mV precision and DCR close to Poissonian error. The temperature dependence of V-BD was found to be 56 +/- 2 mV K-1, and m on average across all Quads was found to be (459 +/- 3(stat.)+/- 23(sys.))x 10(3) e(-) PE-1 V-1. The average DCR temperature coefficient was estimated to be 0.099 +/- 0.008 K(-1)corresponding to a reduction factor of 7 for every 20 K drop in temperature. The average temperature dependence of P(CA)was estimated to be 4000 +/- 1000 ppm K-1. P-CA estimated from the average across all SiPMs is a better estimator than the P-CA calculated from individual SiPMs, for all of the other parameters, the opposite is true. All the estimated parameters were measured to the precision required for SBC-LAr10, and the Quads will be used in conditions to optimize the signal-to-noise ratio.
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- Title
- Batch VUV4 characterization for the SBC-LAr10 scintillating bubble chamber
- Creators
- H. Hawley-Herrera - Queen's UniversityE. Alfonso-Pita - Universidad Nacional Autónoma de MéxicoE. Behnke - Indiana Univ, Dept Phys & Astron, South Bend, IN 46634 USAM. Bressler - Drexel UniversityB. Broerman - Queen's UniversityK. Clark - Queen's UniversityJ. Corbett - Queen's UniversityC. E. Dahl - Fermi National Accelerator LaboratoryK. Dering - Queen's UniversityA. de St Croix - Queens Univ, Dept Phys Engn Phys & Astron, Kingston, ON K7L 3N6, CanadaD. Durnford - University of AlbertaP. Giampa - TRIUMF, Vancouver, BC V6T 2A3, CanadaJ. Hall - SNOLAB, Lively, ON P3Y 1N2, CanadaO. Harris - Northeastern Illinois UniversityN. Lamb - Drexel UniversityM. Laurin - Université de MontréalI. Levine - Indiana University South BendW. H. Lippincott - University of California, Santa BarbaraX. Liu - Northwestern UniversityN. Moss - Queen's UniversityR. Neilson - Drexel University, PhysicsM. -C. Piro - University of AlbertaD. Pyda - Drexel UniversityZ. Sheng - Northwestern Univ, Dept Phys & Astron, Evanston, IL 60208 USAG. Sweeney - Queen's UniversityE. Vazquez-Jauregui - Univ Nacl Autonoma Mexico, Inst Fis, AP 20-364, Mexico City 01000, MexicoS. Westerdale - University of California, RiversideT. J. Whitis - University of California, Santa BarbaraA. Wright - Queen's UniversityE. Wyman - Queen's UniversityR. Zhang - University of California, Santa BarbaraFermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
- Publication Details
- Journal of instrumentation, v 19(8), pT08003
- Publisher
- Institute of Physics
- Number of pages
- 27
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Physics
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:001319440100001
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85200946625
- Other Identifier
- 991022040873104721
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