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Title: Silicon photomultipliers radiation damage and recovery via high temperature annealing

Journal Article · · Journal of Instrumentation
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  1. Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
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The performance of Silicon Photomultipliers (SiPMs) from several vendors are characterized before and after exposure of up to 1010 neutron/cm2 dosage. Collectively, we firmly established that the typical orders of magnitude increase in dark current upon neutron irradiation can be lowered substantially after processing them with a thermal annealing procedure, and single-photon detection are to some extent recovered at room temperature. Furthermore, we found no significant difference on neutron damaged behavior when SiPMs are irradiated at room temperature or in liquid nitrogen.

Research Organization:
Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
Grant/Contract Number:
SC0012704
OSTI ID:
1477958
Report Number(s):
BNL-209190-2018-JAAM
Journal Information:
Journal of Instrumentation, Vol. 13, Issue 10; ISSN 1748-0221
Publisher:
Institute of Physics (IOP)Copyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Citation Metrics:
Cited by: 1 work
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