Performance of novel VUV-sensitive Silicon Photo-Multipliers for nEXO

G. Gallina; Y. Guan; F. Retiere; G. Cao; A. Bolotnikov; I. Kotov; S. Rescia; A. K. Soma; T. Tsang; L. Darroch; T. Brunner; J. Bolster; J. R. Cohen; T. Pinto Franco; W. C. Gillis; H. Peltz Smalley; S. Thibado; A. Pocar; A. Bhat; A. Jamil; D. C. Moore; G. Adhikari; S. Al Kharusi; E. Angelico; I. J. Arnquist; P. Arsenault; I. Badhrees; J. Bane; V. Belov; E. P. Bernard; T. Bhatta; P. A. Breur; J. P. Brodsky; E. Brown; E. Caden; L. Cao; C. Chambers; B. Chana; S. A. Charlebois; D. Chernyak; M. Chiu; B. Cleveland; R. Collister; M. Cvitan; J. Dalmasson; T. Daniels; K. Deslandes; R. DeVoe; M. L. di Vacri; Y. Ding; M. J. Dolinski; A. Dragone; J. Echevers; B. Eckert; M. Elbeltagi; L. Fabris; W. Fairbank; J. Farine; Y. S. Fu; D. Gallacher; P. Gautam; G. Giacomini; C. Gingras; D. Goeldi; R. Gornea; G. Gratta; C. A. Hardy; S. Hedges; M. Heffner; E. Hein; J. Holt; E. W. Hoppe; J. Hoessl; A. House; W. Hunt; A. Iverson; X. S. Jiang; A. Karelin; L. J. Kaufman; R. Kruecken; A. Kuchenkov; K. S. Kumar; A. Larson; K. G. Leach; B. G. Lenardo; D. S. Leonard; G. Lessard; G. Li; S. Li; Z. Li; C. Licciardi; R. Lindsay; R. MacLellan; M. Mahtab; S. Majidi; C. Malbrunot; P. Margetak; P. Martel-Dion; L. Martin; J. Masbou; N. Massacret; K. McMichael; B. Mong; K. Murray; J. Nattress; C. R. Natzke; X. E. Ngwadla; J. C. Nzobadila Ondze; A. Odian; J. L. Orrell; G. S. Ortega; C. T. Overman; S. Parent; A. Perna; A. Piepke; N. Pletskova; J. F. Pratte; V. Radeka; E. Raguzin; G. J. Ramonnye; T. Rao; H. Rasiwala; K. Raymond; B. M. Rebeiro; G. Richardson; J. Ringuette; V. Riot; T. Rossignol; P. C. Rowson; L. Rudolph; R. Saldanha; S. Sangiorgio; X. Shang; F. Spadoni; V. Stekhanov; X. L. Sun; A. Tidball; T. Totev; S. Triambak; R. H. M. Tsang; O. A. Tyuka; F. Vachon; M. Vidal; S. Viel; G. Visser; M. Wagenpfeil; M. Walent; K. Wamba; Q. Wang; W. Wang; Y. Wang; M. Watts; W. Wei; L. J. Wen; U. Wichoski; S. Wilde; M. Worcester; W. H. Wu; X. Wu; L. Xie; W. Yan; H. Yang; L. Yang; O. Zeldovich; J. Zhao; T. Ziegler; Stanford Univ., CA (United States)

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Performance of novel VUV-sensitive Silicon Photo-Multipliers for nEXO

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Performance of novel VUV-sensitive Silicon Photo-Multipliers for nEXO

G. Gallina, Y. Guan, F. Retiere, G. Cao, A. Bolotnikov, I. Kotov, S. Rescia, A. K. Soma, T. Tsang, L. Darroch, …

The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields, Vol.82(12), pp.1125-21

13/12/2022

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-022-11072-8

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Liquid xenon time projection chambers are promising detectors to search for neutrinoless double beta decay (0 nu beta beta), due to their response uniformity, monolithic sensitive volume, scalability to large target masses, and suitability for extremely low background operations. The nEXO collaboration has designed a tonne-scale time projection chamber that aims to search for 0 nu beta beta of Xe-136 with projected half-life sensitivity of 1.35 x 10(28) yr. To reach this sensitivity, the design goal for nEXO is <= 1% energy resolution at the decay Q-value (2458.07 +/- 0.31 keV). Reaching this resolution requires the efficient collection of both the ionization and scintillation produced in the detector. The nEXO design employs Silicon Photo-Multipliers (SiPMs) to detect the vacuum ultra-violet, 175 nm scintillation light of liquid xenon. This paper reports on the characterization of the newest vacuum ultra-violet sensitive Fondazione Bruno Kessler VUVHD3 SiPMs specifically designed for nEXO, as well as new measurements on new test samples of previously characterised Hamamatsu VUV4 Multi Pixel Photon Counters (MPPCs). Various SiPM and MPPC parameters, such as dark noise, gain, direct crosstalk, correlated avalanches and photon detection efficiency were measured as a function of the applied over voltage and wavelength at liquid xenon temperature (163 K). The results from this study are used to provide updated estimates of the achievable energy resolution at the decay Q-value for the nEXO design.

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Title: Performance of novel VUV-sensitive Silicon Photo-Multipliers for nEXO
Creators - without role: G. Gallina - TRIUMF
Y. Guan - Institute of High Energy Physics
F. Retiere - TRIUMF
G. Cao - University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
A. Bolotnikov - Brookhaven National Laboratory
I. Kotov - Brookhaven National Laboratory
S. Rescia - Brookhaven National Laboratory
A. K. Soma - Drexel University
T. Tsang - Brookhaven National Laboratory
L. Darroch - McGill University
T. Brunner - McGill University
J. Bolster - University of Massachusetts Amherst
J. R. Cohen - University of Massachusetts Amherst
T. Pinto Franco - University of Massachusetts Amherst
W. C. Gillis - University of Massachusetts Amherst
H. Peltz Smalley - University of Massachusetts Amherst
S. Thibado - University of Massachusetts Amherst
A. Pocar - University of Massachusetts Amherst
A. Bhat - Yale University
A. Jamil - Yale University
D. C. Moore - Yale University
G. Adhikari - University of California, San Diego
S. Al Kharusi - McGill University
E. Angelico - Stanford University
I. J. Arnquist - Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
P. Arsenault - Université de Sherbrooke
I. Badhrees - Carleton University
J. Bane - University of Massachusetts Amherst
V. Belov - Kurchatov Institute
E. P. Bernard - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
T. Bhatta - University of Kentucky
P. A. Breur - SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
J. P. Brodsky - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
E. Brown - Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
E. Caden - McGill University
L. Cao - Institute of Microelectronics
C. Chambers - McGill University
B. Chana - Carleton University
S. A. Charlebois - Université de Sherbrooke
D. Chernyak - University of Alabama
M. Chiu - Brookhaven National Laboratory
B. Cleveland - Laurentian University
R. Collister - Carleton University
M. Cvitan - TRIUMF
J. Dalmasson - Stanford University
T. Daniels - University of North Carolina Wilmington
K. Deslandes - Université de Sherbrooke
R. DeVoe - Stanford University
M. L. di Vacri - Pacific Northwest Natl Lab, Inst Particle Phys & Astrophys, Richland, WA 99352 USA
Y. Ding - Institute of High Energy Physics
M. J. Dolinski - Drexel University
A. Dragone - SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
J. Echevers - University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
B. Eckert - Drexel University
M. Elbeltagi - Carleton University
L. Fabris - Oak Ridge National Laboratory
W. Fairbank - Colorado State University
J. Farine - Laurentian University
Y. S. Fu - Institute of High Energy Physics
D. Gallacher - McGill University
P. Gautam - Drexel University
G. Giacomini - Brookhaven National Laboratory
C. Gingras - McGill University
D. Goeldi - Carleton University
R. Gornea - Carleton University
G. Gratta - Stanford University
C. A. Hardy - Stanford University
S. Hedges - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
M. Heffner - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
E. Hein - Skyline College
J. Holt - TRIUMF
E. W. Hoppe - Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
J. Hoessl - Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
A. House - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
W. Hunt - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
A. Iverson - Colorado State University
X. S. Jiang - Institute of High Energy Physics
A. Karelin - Kurchatov Institute
L. J. Kaufman - SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
R. Kruecken - University of British Columbia
A. Kuchenkov - Kurchatov Institute
K. S. Kumar - University of Massachusetts Amherst
A. Larson - University of South Dakota
K. G. Leach - Colorado School of Mines
B. G. Lenardo - Stanford University
D. S. Leonard - Ibs
G. Lessard - Université de Sherbrooke
G. Li - Institute of High Energy Physics
S. Li - University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Z. Li - University of California, San Diego
C. Licciardi - Laurentian University
R. Lindsay - University of the Western Cape
R. MacLellan - University of Kentucky
M. Mahtab - TRIUMF
S. Majidi - McGill University
C. Malbrunot - TRIUMF
P. Margetak - TRIUMF
P. Martel-Dion - Université de Sherbrooke
L. Martin - TRIUMF
J. Masbou - IMT Atlantique
N. Massacret - TRIUMF
K. McMichael - Rensselaer Polytech Inst, Dept Phys Appl Phys & Astron, Troy, NY 12180 USA
B. Mong - Menlo School
K. Murray - McGill University
J. Nattress - Oak Ridge Natl Lab, Oak Ridge, TN 37831 USA
C. R. Natzke - Supreme Council Of Health
X. E. Ngwadla - University of the Western Cape
J. C. Nzobadila Ondze - University of the Western Cape
A. Odian - Menlo School
J. L. Orrell - Pacific Northwest Natl Lab, Inst Particle Phys & Astrophys, Richland, WA 99352 USA
G. S. Ortega - Pacific Northwest Natl Lab, Inst Particle Phys & Astrophys, Richland, WA 99352 USA
C. T. Overman - Pacific Northwest Natl Lab, Inst Particle Phys & Astrophys, Richland, WA 99352 USA
S. Parent - Univ Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, PQ J1K 2R1, Canada
A. Perna - Laurentian University
A. Piepke - University of Alabama
N. Pletskova - Drexel University
J. F. Pratte - Univ Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, PQ J1K 2R1, Canada
V. Radeka - Brookhaven Natl Lab, Upton, NY 11973 USA
E. Raguzin - Brookhaven Natl Lab, Upton, NY 11973 USA
G. J. Ramonnye - University of the Western Cape
T. Rao - Brookhaven Natl Lab, Upton, NY 11973 USA
H. Rasiwala - McGill University
K. Raymond - TRIUMF
B. M. Rebeiro - McGill University
G. Richardson - Yale University
J. Ringuette - Supreme Council Of Health
V. Riot - Lawrence Livermore Natl Lab, Livermore, CA 94550 USA
T. Rossignol - Univ Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, PQ J1K 2R1, Canada
P. C. Rowson - Menlo School
L. Rudolph - McGill University
R. Saldanha - Pacific Northwest Natl Lab, Inst Particle Phys & Astrophys, Richland, WA 99352 USA
S. Sangiorgio - Lawrence Livermore Natl Lab, Livermore, CA 94550 USA
X. Shang - McGill University
F. Spadoni - Pacific Northwest Natl Lab, Inst Particle Phys & Astrophys, Richland, WA 99352 USA
V. Stekhanov - Kurchatov Institute
X. L. Sun - Chinese Acad Sci, Inst High Energy Phys, Beijing 100049, Peoples R China
A. Tidball - Rensselaer Polytech Inst, Dept Phys Appl Phys & Astron, Troy, NY 12180 USA
T. Totev - McGill University
S. Triambak - University of the Western Cape
R. H. M. Tsang - University of Alabama
O. A. Tyuka - University of the Western Cape
F. Vachon - Univ Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, PQ J1K 2R1, Canada
M. Vidal - Stanford University
S. Viel - Carleton University
G. Visser - Indiana University
M. Wagenpfeil - Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
M. Walent - Laurentian University
K. Wamba - Skyline Coll, San Bruno, CA 94066 USA
Q. Wang - Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Microelect, Beijing 100029, Peoples R China
W. Wang - University of Alabama
Y. Wang - Chinese Acad Sci, Inst High Energy Phys, Beijing 100049, Peoples R China
M. Watts - Yale University
W. Wei - Chinese Acad Sci, Inst High Energy Phys, Beijing 100049, Peoples R China
L. J. Wen - Chinese Acad Sci, Inst High Energy Phys, Beijing 100049, Peoples R China
U. Wichoski - Snolab
S. Wilde - Yale University
M. Worcester - Brookhaven Natl Lab, Upton, NY 11973 USA
W. H. Wu - Chinese Acad Sci, Inst High Energy Phys, Beijing 100049, Peoples R China
X. Wu - Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Microelect, Beijing 100029, Peoples R China
L. Xie - TRIUMF
W. Yan - Chinese Acad Sci, Inst High Energy Phys, Beijing 100049, Peoples R China
H. Yang - Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Microelect, Beijing 100029, Peoples R China
L. Yang - Univ Calif San Diego, Dept Phys, La Jolla, CA 92093 USA
O. Zeldovich - Kurchatov Institute
J. Zhao - Chinese Acad Sci, Inst High Energy Phys, Beijing 100049, Peoples R China
T. Ziegler - Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Stanford Univ., CA (United States)
Publication Details: The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields, Vol.82(12), pp.1125-21
Publisher: Springer Nature
Number of pages: 21
Grant note: IBS in Korea CAS; Chinese Academy of Sciences NRC; National Research Centre (NRC) nEXO from NSERC Office of Nuclear Physics within DOE's Office of Science CFI; Canada Foundation for Innovation McDonald Institute (CFREF) in Canada FRQNT NSF in the United States; National Science Foundation (NSF) NSFC in China; National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) National Research Foundataion (NRF) of South Africa RFBR in Russia; Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR)
Identifiers: 9918626808331
Academic Unit: King Abdulaziz City for Science & Technology; King Abdullah University of Science & Technology
Language: English
Resource Type: Journal article