Reflectivity and PDE of VUV4 Hamamatsu SiPMs in liquid xenon

Considering reflective properties of materials and photodetection efficiency (PDE) of photodetectors is important for optimizing energy resolution and sensitivity of the next generation neutrinoless double beta decay, direct detection dark matter, and neutrino oscillation experiments that will use n...

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Published in:Journal of instrumentation 2020-01, Vol.15 (1)
Main Authors: Nakarmi, P., Ostrovskiy, I., Soma, A. K., Retière, F., Kharusi, S. Al, Badhrees, I., Barbeau, P. S., Belov, V., Brodsky, J. P., Brown, E., Brunner, T., Mamahit, S. Byrne, Caden, E., Cao, G. F., Chambers, C., Chana, B., Chiu, M., Coon, M., Dalmasson, J., Daniels, T., Darroch, L., Croix, A. De St, Mesrobian-Kabakian, A. Der, DeVoe, R., Vacri, M. L. Di, Dilling, J., Doria, L., Echevers, J., Elbeltagi, M., Fabris, L., Fairbank, D., Farine, J., Ferrara, S., Feyzbakhsh, S., Gautam, P., Giacomini, G., Goeldi, D., Gornea, R., Gratta, G., Hansen, E. V., Heffner, M., Hoppe, E. W., Hößl, J., Jamil, A., Jewell, M. J., Kaufman, L. J., Kuchenkov, A., Kumar, K. S., Larson, A., Leach, K. G., Leonard, D. S., Li, G., Li, S., Lv, P., MacLellan, R., Medina-Peregrina, M., Michel, T., Mong, B., Moore, D. C., Natzke, C. R., Newby, R. J., Ning, Z., Njoya, O., Nolet, F., Odgers, K., Oriunno, M., Pocar, A., Pratte, J. -F., Raguzin, E., Rescia, S., Richman, M., Robinson, A., Rossignol, T., Roy, N., Runge, J., Sangiorgio, S., St-Hilaire, G., Stekhanov, V., Stiegler, T., Sun, X. L., Todd, J., Totev, T. I., Tsang, R., Veeraraghavan, V., Viel, S., Visser, G., Vivo-Vilches, C., Vuilleumier, J. -L., Wang, Q., Ward, M., Weber, M., Wen, L. J., Wichoski, U., Wu, S. X., Xia, Q., Yang, H., Yang, L., Zeldovich, O., Zhou, Y., Ziegler, T.
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Language:English
Subjects:
Neutrino-less double beta decay
noble liquid detectors
NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS
OTHER INSTRUMENTATION
photon detectors
scintillation
Silicon Photomultipliers
SiPMs
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Summary:Considering reflective properties of materials and photodetection efficiency (PDE) of photodetectors is important for optimizing energy resolution and sensitivity of the next generation neutrinoless double beta decay, direct detection dark matter, and neutrino oscillation experiments that will use noble liquid gases, such as nEXO, DARWIN, DarkSide-20k, and DUNE . Little information is currently available about reflectivity and PDE in liquid noble gases, because such measurements are difficult to conduct in a cryogenic environment and at short enough wavelengths. Here we report a measurement of specular reflectivity and relative PDE of Hamamatsu VUV4 silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) with 50 μm micro-cells conducted with xenon scintillation light (~175 nm) in liquid xenon. The specular reflectivity at 15o incidence of three samples of VUV4 SiPMs is found to be 30.4±1.4%, 28.6±1.3%, and 28.0±1.3%, respectively. The PDE at normal incidence differs by ±8% (standard deviation) among the three devices. The angular dependence of the reflectivity and PDE was further measured for one of the SiPMs. Both the reflectivity and PDE decrease as the angle of incidence increases. This is the first measurement of an angular dependence of PDE and reflectivity of a SiPM in liquid xenon.
ISSN:1748-0221
1748-0221