CPAD Workshop 2022

Session

WG7: Photon Detectors (incl. CCDs)

29 Nov 2022, 16:00

Wang Center, Stony Brook University

Conveners

WG7: Photon Detectors (incl. CCDs)

• Flavio Cavanna (FERMILAB)
• Yordanka Ilieva (University of South Carolina)
• Nepomuk Otte (Georgia Institute of Technology)

WG7: Photon Detectors (incl. CCDs)

• Flavio Cavanna (FERMILAB)
• Yordanka Ilieva (University of South Carolina)
• Nepomuk Otte (Georgia Institute of Technology)

WG7: Photon Detectors (incl. CCDs)

• Nepomuk Otte (Georgia Institute of Technology)
• Flavio Cavanna (FERMILAB)
• Yordanka Ilieva (University of South Carolina)

WG7: Photon Detectors (incl. CCDs)

• Nepomuk Otte (Georgia Institute of Technology)
• Flavio Cavanna (FERMILAB)
• Yordanka Ilieva (University of South Carolina)

114. R\&D studies forward a SiPM-based readout for the dRICH detector at the EPIC experiment

Pietro Antonioli (INFN - sezione di Bologna)

29/11/2022, 16:00

WG7: Photon Detectors (incl. CCDs)

Contribution Talk

Silicon photomultipliers (SiPM) are the baseline option as the photodetector technology for the dual-radiator Ring-Imaging Cherenkov (dRICH) detector at the future Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) in the Electron-Proton/Ion Collider experiment (EPIC). A SiPM-based readout offers important advantages being cheap devices, highly efficient and insensitive to high magnetic field (~ 1 T at the expected...

162. Stave-Oriented Photon Detector Readout with Event Waveform Recording

Grzegorz Deptuch (BNL)

29/11/2022, 16:20

WG7: Photon Detectors (incl. CCDs)

Contribution Talk

Silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) are suitable for scintillation light detectors used in multiple rare searches experiments. The SiPMs are distributed on a hierarchical structure of mini-tiles, multiple readout channels tiles, integrated on staves, and arranged in a form of a barrel of detectors with large area of SiPM, looking inside the volume filled with noble liquid. In addition to...

66. LoLX : Studying light in liquid xenon using SiPMs

Bernadette Maria Rebeiro (McGill University)

29/11/2022, 16:40

WG7: Photon Detectors (incl. CCDs)

Contribution Talk

The Light-only Liquid Xenon (LoLX) experiment is designed to study the properties of light emission and transport in liquid xenon (LXe) using Hamamatsu VUV4 Silicon Photo Multiplier (SiPM) modules. LoLX is also being used to investigate the timing structures of scintillation and Cherenkov light production in LXe and provide a better understanding of the effects of external cross-talk between...

64. Light detection in DarkSide-20k with Silicon Photomultipliers

Claudio Savarese (Princeton University)

29/11/2022, 17:00

WG7: Photon Detectors (incl. CCDs)

Contribution Talk

The DarkSide program aims to a WIMP direct detection using a dual phase argon time projection chamber. The next generation experiment, DS-20k, will be a detector in excess of 20 tonnes of fiducial mass. A pivotal aspect to the sensitivity of the experiment is its light detection technology. The DarkSide collaboration decided to adopt a new family of photo-sensors called Silicon...

82. Performance of Highly Irradiated SiPMs Coupled to LYSO:Ce Crystals for the CMS MTD Barrel Timing Layer

Carlos Perez Lara (member@virginia.edu;employee@virginia.edu;staff@virginia.edu)

29/11/2022, 17:40

WG7: Photon Detectors (incl. CCDs)

Contribution Talk

The MIP Timing Detector (MTD) is a new detector being developed for the CMS upgrade for the High-Luminosity LHC era. The detector will bring the capability of precisely measuring the production time of particles produced in proton-proton collisions. In particular, the MTD will allow for the disentangling of the estimated 200 nearly simultaneous pileup vertices occurring in the interaction...

130. Assessing the performance of metalenses to enhance the light collection of silicon photomultipliers

Dr Chris Stanford (Fermilab)

30/11/2022, 08:30

WG7: Photon Detectors (incl. CCDs)

Contribution Talk

A metalens is an emerging type of flat optical metamaterial that presents several advantages over a traditional lens, such as reduced cost and reduced bulkiness. We developed a set of software tools and fabrication procedures for the rapid development and characterization of new metalens designs. A large field-of-view centimeter-scale metalens was fabricated, and its performance compared with...

77. Stimulated Light Emission of Silicon Photomulipiers Devices

D McCarthy (TRIUMF, 4004 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver, BC, Canada)

30/11/2022, 08:50

WG7: Photon Detectors (incl. CCDs)

Contribution Talk

Silicon PhotoMultipliers (SiPMs) are increasingly used in next-generation, large area particle physics experiments to achieve single-photon resolution [1, 2, 3]. An array of Single Photon Avalanche Diodes (SPADs) within the SiPM reacts to incident photons through an avalanche process that creates a measurable current flow. This avalanche process generates secondary photons which must be...

90. Novel multi-channel skipper-CCD packages for the OSCURA experiment

Ana Martina Botti (FNAL)

30/11/2022, 09:10

WG7: Photon Detectors (incl. CCDs)

Contribution Talk

The next generation of experiments for rare-event searches based on skipper Charge Coupled Devices (skipper-CCDs) will bring new challenges for the packaging and read-out of the detectors. Scaling the active mass and simultaneously reducing the experimental backgrounds in two orders of magnitude will require a novel high-density Silicon-based package, that must be massively produced and...

156. Recent developments for fast readout of Skipper-CCD sensors for particle physics and optical applications

Guillermo Fernandez Moroni

30/11/2022, 09:30

WG7: Photon Detectors (incl. CCDs)

Contribution Talk

Non-destructive readout capability of the Skipper Charge Coupled Device (CCD) has been proven to be a powerful technique to reduce the noise limitation of conventional silicon devices even to levels that allow single-photon or single-electron counting. The noise reduction is achieved by spending extra time taking several measurements of the same pixel charge. The technique requires minimal...

155. Towards a 10 kg Skipper-CCD detector: the multiplexing analog electronics for the OSCURA experiment

CLAUDIO CHAVEZ (Fermilab)

30/11/2022, 09:50

WG7: Photon Detectors (incl. CCDs)

Contribution Talk

We present a multiplexed analog readout electronics system for Skipper-CCDs. The system allows for sub-electron noise-level operation while maintaining a minimal number of acquisition channels. In addition, it requires low-disk storage and low-bandwidth data transfer with zero added multiplexing time during the simultaneous operation of thousands of channels. We describe the implementation and...

88. Novel VUV Light Detection in a Pixelated Liquid Argon Time Projection Chambers

Jonathan Asaadi (University of Texas at Arlington)

30/11/2022, 13:35

WG7: Photon Detectors (incl. CCDs)

Contribution Talk

Projective readout technologies currently used in Liquid Argon Time Projection Chambers come with a set of challenges from the construction of the wire planes themselves to the continuous readout of the system required to accomplish the physics goals of proton decay searches and supernova neutrino sensitivity. Additionally, the reconstruction techniques required for these projective readouts...

96. The SBND photon detectors system

Andrew Blake (University of Lancaster), Raquel Castillo Fernandez (University of Texas at Arlington), Polina Abratenko (pabraten@fnal.gov), Rhiannon Jones (University of Sheffield), Vishvas Pandey (Fermilab)

30/11/2022, 13:55

WG7: Photon Detectors (incl. CCDs)

Contribution Talk

SBND is the near detector of the Short Baseline Neutrino program at Fermilab. Its near location (110 m) to the neutrino source and relatively large mass (112 ton active volume) will allow studying neutrino interactions on argon with unprecedented precision.
This talk focuses on the SBND Photon Detection System. It represents a major R&D opportunity for the LArTPC technology. Its design is a...

163. Recent results from the pixel-based accelerated aging of Large Area Picosecond Photodetectors (LAPPD)

Varghese Anto Chirayath et. at. (Department of Physics University of Texas at Arlington)

30/11/2022, 14:15

WG7: Photon Detectors (incl. CCDs)

Contribution Talk

Here we describe the physics behind the pixel based accelerated aging method of the microchannel plate-photomultiplier tubes (MCP-PMTs) developed at the University of Texas at Arlington. In this fast lifetime testing method, a highly localized region of the MCP-PMT is exposed to photons at a high repetition rate. The pixel-based testing method was inspired by our previous research that has...

124. Results on LAPPD 38 single photoelectron detection and measurements of charge cloud radius

Simona Malace (Jefferson Lab)

30/11/2022, 14:35

WG7: Photon Detectors (incl. CCDs)

Contribution Talk

In this talk I will present my most recent results of single photoelectron detection with an Incom Inc. LAPPD (LAPPD 38). The single photoelectron signal is used to determine the characteristic dependence of gain on MCP and photocathode voltages. It is also used to calibrate the LAPPD in units of number of photoelectrons for Cherenkov light detection.
I will also discuss my incipient work on...

69. Performance of MCP-PMT and LAPPD in Magnetic Field for RICH Detectors

Junqi Xie (ANL)

30/11/2022, 14:55

WG7: Photon Detectors (incl. CCDs)

Contribution Talk

Various ring imaging Cherenkov sub-systems are being proposed in EIC detector for hadron identification with momenta up to 50 GeV/c. It is critical to have a reliable highly pixelated readout sensor working in the high magnetic field environment. Optimization of the photosensor design for high magnetic field tolerance, precision timing resolution, and pixelated readout was performed at Argonne...

153. 2D pixelated LAPPDs for Ring Imaging Cherenkov Detectors in High Energy and Nuclear Physics Experiments

Alexander Kiselev (BNL)

30/11/2022, 15:15

WG7: Photon Detectors (incl. CCDs)

Contribution Talk

Large Area Picosecond Photodetectors (LAPPDs) are micro-channel based photosensors featuring hundreds of square centimeters of sensitive area in a single package and timing resolution on the order of 50 ps for a single photon detection. However, until recently LAPPDs did not exist in finely pixelated 2D readout configurations that in addition to the high-resolution timing would also provide...

94. New developments in large area MCP-PMTs

Alexey Lyashenko

01/12/2022, 10:35

WG7: Photon Detectors (incl. CCDs)

Contribution Talk

Large Area Picosecond Photo-Detectors (LAPPDs) produced by Incom Inc. are the world’s largest commercially-available planar-geometry photodetectors based on microchannel plates (ALD- GCA-MCPs). It features a chevron pair of “next generation” large area MCPs produced by applying resistive and emissive Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) coatings to borosilicate glass capillary array (GCA) substrates...

102. Micro-Machined Vacuum Single Photon Photodetector with sub-ns time resolution, 100’s MHz rates and high dynamic range

David Winn (Fairfield University)

01/12/2022, 11:15

WG7: Photon Detectors (incl. CCDs)

Contribution Talk

At present a single pixel or camera plane capable of detecting single photons with high dynamic range, time resolution approaching 10ps, and frame rates above 100’s MHz are unavailable. MicroChannel Plate (MCP) based imaging tubes or PMT have superior time resolution compared with PMT, and performance in magnetic fields due to secondary electrons with laterally confined paths to the anode. On...

113. The R&D of the MCP based PMTs for High Energy Physics Detectors

Sen Qian (Institution of High Energy PHysics Chinese Acamecs of Science)

01/12/2022, 11:35

WG7: Photon Detectors (incl. CCDs)

Contribution Talk

Researchers at IHEP have conceived two types of MCP-PMTs for photon detection in particle physics. One is the 20-inch Large MCP-PMT (LPMT) with small MCP units in the large area PMTs for neutrino detection. This LPMT has already been mass-produced in more than 15K pieces in the JUNO experiment and has also been evaluated by the PMT group in LHAASO and HyperK. The other is the 2-inch Fast...

54. Tests of an MCP-PMT with an Active Ion Barrier

Prof. Andrew Brandt (University of Texas, Arlington)

01/12/2022, 11:55

WG7: Photon Detectors (incl. CCDs)

Contribution Talk

Micro Channel Plate (MCP) Photomultiplier Tubes (MCP-PMTs) are photon detectors with many useful characteristics, such as high gain, single photon detection efficiency, precise timing resolution, and the capability of operating in strong magnetic fields without performance degradation. The quantum efficiency of the photocathode of the MCP-PMTs, however, is known to degrade due to “positive-ion...

168. Following real-time biochemistry in live cell

Sergey Pereverzev (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

01/12/2022, 12:15

WG7: Photon Detectors (incl. CCDs)

Contribution Talk

New live-cell chemical imaging techniques became feasible due to the progress in superconducting quantum detectors. One can decompose IR radiation coming from the region of the single cell dimensions over 1000 or more spectral channels and timestamp IR photons arriving to the detector array with about 10 ps time resolution. This opens ways to use IR luminescence spectroscopy, which can be...