VUV-Sensitive Silicon Photomultipliers for Xenon Scintillation Light Detection in nEXO

A. Jamil; T. Ziegler; P. Hufschmidt; G. Li; L. Lupin-Jimenez; T. Michel; I. Ostrovskiy; F. Retiere; J. Schneider; M. Wagenpfeil; A. Alamre; J. B. Albert; G. Anton; I. J. Arnquist; I. Badhrees; P. S. Barbeau; D. Beck; V. Belov; T. Bhatta; F. Bourque; J. P. Brodsky; E. Brown; T. Brunner; A. Burenkov; G. F. Cao; L. Cao; W. R. Cen; C. Chambers; S. A. Charlebois; M. Chiu; B. Cleveland; M. Coon; M. Cote; A. Craycraft; W. Cree; J. Dalmasson; T. Daniels; L. Darroch; S. J. Daugherty; J. Daughhetee; S. Delaquis; A. Der Mesrobian-Kabakian; R. DeVoe; J. Dilling; Y. Y. Ding; M. J. Dolinski; A. Dragone; J. Echevers; L. Fabris; D. Fairbank; W. Fairbank; J. Farine; S. Feyzbakhsh; R. Fontaine; D. Fudenberg; G. Gallina; G. Giacomini; R. Gornea; G. Gratta; E. V. Hansen; D. Harris; M. Hasan; M. Heffner; J. HoBl; E. W. Hoppe; A. House; M. Hughes; Y. Ito; A. Iverson; C. Jessiman; M. J. Jewell; X. S. Jiang; A. Karelin; L. J. Kaufman; T. Koffas; S. Kravitz; R. Krucken; A. Kuchenkov; K. S. Kumar; Y. Lan; A. Larson; D. S. Leonard; S. Li; Z. Li; C. Licciardi; Y. H. Lin; P. Lv; R. MacLellan; B. Mong; D. C. Moore; K. Murray; R. J. Newby; Z. Ning; O. Njoya; F. Nolet; O. Nusair; K. Odgers; A. Odian; M. Oriunno; J. L. Orrell; G. S. Ortega; C. T. Overman; S. Parent; A. Piepke; A. Pocar; J.-F. Pratte; D. Qiu; V. Radeka; E. Raguzin; T. Rao; S. Rescia; A. Robinson; T. Rossignol; P. C. Rowson; N. Roy; R. Saldanha; S. Sangiorgio; S. Schmidt; A. Schubert; D. Sinclair; K. Skarpaas; A. K. Soma; G. St-Hilaire; V. Stekhanov; T. Stiegler; X. L. Sun; M. Tarka; J. Todd; T. Tolba; T. I. Totev; R. Tsang; T. Tsang; F. Vachon; B. Veenstra; V. Veeraraghavan; G. Visser; J.-L. Vuilleumier; Q. Wang; J. Watkins; M. Weber; W. Wei; L. J. Wen; U. Wichoski; G. Wrede; S. X. Wu; W. H. Wu; Q. Xia; L. Yang; Y.-R. Yen; O. Zeldovich; X. Zhang; J. Zhao; Y. Zhou; SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)

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VUV-Sensitive Silicon Photomultipliers for Xenon Scintillation Light Detection in nEXO

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VUV-Sensitive Silicon Photomultipliers for Xenon Scintillation Light Detection in nEXO

A. Jamil, T. Ziegler, P. Hufschmidt, G. Li, L. Lupin-Jimenez, T. Michel, I. Ostrovskiy, F. Retiere, J. Schneider, M. Wagenpfeil, …

IEEE transactions on nuclear science, Vol.65(11), pp.2823-2833

01/11/2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/TNS.2018.2875668

Abstract

Energy resolution

Gas detectors

nEXO

Photodetectors

Photomultipliers

silicon photomultiplier

vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) light

Xenon

xenon detectors

Future ton-scale liquefied noble gas detectors depend on efficient light detection in the vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) range. In the past years, silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) have emerged as a valid alternative to standard photomultiplier tubes or large-area avalanche photodiodes. The next-generation double-beta decay experiment, nEXO, with a 5-ton liquid xenon time projection chamber will use SiPMs for detecting the 175-nm xenon scintillation light, in order to achieve an energy resolution of \boldsymbol {\sigma }/\boldsymbol {Q_{\beta \beta }} = 1 %. This paper presents recent measurements of the VUV-HD generation SiPMs from Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy, in two complementary setups. It includes measurements of the photon-detection efficiency (PDE) with gaseous xenon scintillation light in a vacuum setup and dark measurements in a dry nitrogen gas setup. We report improved PDE at 175 nm compared to previous generation devices that would meet the criteria of nEXO. Furthermore, we present the projected nEXO detector light collection and energy resolution that could be achieved by using these SiPMs.

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Title: VUV-Sensitive Silicon Photomultipliers for Xenon Scintillation Light Detection in nEXO
Creators - without role: A. Jamil - Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
T. Ziegler - Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
P. Hufschmidt - Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
G. Li - Stanford University
L. Lupin-Jimenez - Stanford University
T. Michel - Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
I. Ostrovskiy - University of Alabama
F. Retiere - TRIUMF
J. Schneider - Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
M. Wagenpfeil - Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
A. Alamre - Carleton University
J. B. Albert - Indiana University Bloomington
G. Anton - Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
I. J. Arnquist - Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
I. Badhrees - King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology
P. S. Barbeau - Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory
D. Beck - University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
V. Belov - Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics
T. Bhatta - University of South Dakota
F. Bourque - Université de Sherbrooke
J. P. Brodsky - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
E. Brown - Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
T. Brunner - McGill University
A. Burenkov - Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics
G. F. Cao - University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
L. Cao - Institute of Electronics
W. R. Cen - Institute of High Energy Physics
C. Chambers - Colorado State University
S. A. Charlebois - Université de Sherbrooke
M. Chiu - Brookhaven National Laboratory
B. Cleveland - Snolab
M. Coon - University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
M. Cote - Université de Sherbrooke
A. Craycraft - Colorado State University
W. Cree - Carleton University
J. Dalmasson - Stanford University
T. Daniels - University of North Carolina Wilmington
L. Darroch - McGill University
S. J. Daugherty - Indiana University Bloomington
J. Daughhetee - University of South Dakota
S. Delaquis - SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
A. Der Mesrobian-Kabakian - Laurentian University
R. DeVoe - Stanford University
J. Dilling - TRIUMF
Y. 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
L. Fabris - Oak Ridge National Laboratory
D. Fairbank - Colorado State University
W. Fairbank - Colorado State University
J. Farine - Laurentian University
S. Feyzbakhsh - University of Massachusetts Amherst
R. Fontaine - Université de Sherbrooke
D. Fudenberg - Stanford University
G. Gallina - TRIUMF
G. Giacomini - Brookhaven National Laboratory
R. Gornea - Carleton University
G. Gratta - Stanford University
E. V. Hansen - Drexel University
D. Harris - Colorado State University
M. Hasan - University of South Dakota
M. Heffner - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
J. HoBl - Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
E. W. Hoppe - Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
A. House - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
M. Hughes - University of Alabama
Y. Ito - McGill University
A. Iverson - Colorado State University
C. Jessiman - Carleton University
M. J. Jewell - Stanford University
X. S. Jiang - Institute of High Energy Physics
A. Karelin - Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics
L. J. Kaufman - Indiana University Bloomington
T. Koffas - Carleton University
S. Kravitz - Stanford University
R. Krucken - TRIUMF
A. Kuchenkov - Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics
K. S. Kumar - Stony Brook University
Y. Lan - TRIUMF
A. Larson - University of South Dakota
D. S. Leonard - Ibs
S. Li - University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Z. Li - Yale University
C. Licciardi - Laurentian University
Y. H. Lin - Drexel University
P. Lv - Institute of High Energy Physics
R. MacLellan - University of South Dakota
B. Mong - SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
D. C. Moore - Yale University
K. Murray - McGill University
R. J. Newby - Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Z. Ning - Institute of High Energy Physics
O. Njoya - Stony Brook University
F. Nolet - Université de Sherbrooke
O. Nusair - University of Alabama
K. Odgers - Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
A. Odian - SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
M. Oriunno - SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
J. L. Orrell - Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
G. S. Ortega - Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
C. T. Overman - Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
S. Parent - Université de Sherbrooke
A. Piepke - University of Alabama
A. Pocar - University of Massachusetts Amherst
J.-F. Pratte - Université de Sherbrooke
D. Qiu - Institute of Micro-electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
V. Radeka - Brookhaven National Laboratory
E. Raguzin - Brookhaven National Laboratory
T. Rao - Brookhaven National Laboratory
S. Rescia - Brookhaven National Laboratory
A. Robinson - Laurentian University
T. Rossignol - Université de Sherbrooke
P. C. Rowson - SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
N. Roy - Université de Sherbrooke
R. Saldanha - Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
S. Sangiorgio - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
S. Schmidt - Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
A. Schubert - OneBridge Solutions, Boise, ID, USA
D. Sinclair - Carleton University
K. Skarpaas - SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
A. K. Soma - University of Alabama
G. St-Hilaire - Université de Sherbrooke
V. Stekhanov - Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics
T. Stiegler - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
X. L. Sun - Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
M. Tarka - Stony Brook University
J. Todd - Colorado State University
T. Tolba - Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
T. I. Totev - McGill University
R. Tsang - Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
T. Tsang - Brookhaven National Laboratory
F. Vachon - Université de Sherbrooke
B. Veenstra - Carleton University
V. Veeraraghavan - Stanford University
G. Visser - Indiana University Bloomington
J.-L. Vuilleumier - University of Bern
Q. Wang - Institute of Micro-electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
J. Watkins - Carleton University
M. Weber - Stanford University
W. Wei - Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
L. J. Wen - Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
U. Wichoski - Laurentian University
G. Wrede - Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
S. X. Wu - Stanford University
W. H. Wu - Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Q. Xia - University of New Haven
L. Yang - University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Y.-R. Yen - Drexel University
O. Zeldovich - Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics
X. Zhang - Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
J. Zhao - Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Y. Zhou - Institute of Micro-electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
Publication Details: IEEE transactions on nuclear science, Vol.65(11), pp.2823-2833
Publisher: IEEE
Identifiers: 9918641308331
Academic Unit: King Abdulaziz City for Science & Technology; King Abdullah University of Science & Technology
Language: English
Resource Type: Journal article