Characterization of a Silicon photo-multiplier summing breakout board for photo-multiplier tube replacement
- Sandia National Laboratories (SNL), Albuquerque, NM, and Livermore, CA (United States)
We present the relative timing and pulse-shape discrimination performance of a H1949-50 photomultiplier tube to SensL ArrayX-B0B6_64S coupled to a SensL ArrayC-60035-64P- PCB Silicon Photomultiplier array. The goal of this work is to enable the replacement of photomultiplier readout of scintillators with Silicon Photomultiplier devices, which are more robust and have higher particle detection efficiency. The report quantifies the degradation of these performance parameters using commercial off the shelf summing circuits, and motivates the development of an improved summing circuit: the pulse-shape descrimination figure-of-merit drops from 1.7 at 500 keVee to 1.4, and the timing resolution (σ) is 288 ps for the photomultiplier readout and approximately 1 ns for the Silicon Photomultiplier readout. A degradation of this size will have a large negative impact on any device that relies on timing coincidence or pulse-shape discrimination to detect neutron interactions, such as neutron kinematic imaging or multiplicity measurements.
- Research Organization:
- Sandia National Lab. (SNL-CA), Livermore, CA (United States); Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC04-94AL85000; NA0003525
- OSTI ID:
- 1493837
- Report Number(s):
- SAND-2018-10958; 672095
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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