Test and characterization of 400 Hamamatsu R5912-MOD photomultiplier tubes for the ICARUS T600 detector
Abstract
ICARUS T600 will be operated as far detector of the Short Baseline Neutrino program at Fermilab (U.S.A.), which foresees three liquid argon time projection chambers along the Booster Neutrino Beam line to search for a LSND-like sterile neutrino signal. The detector employs 360 photomultiplier tubes, Hamamatsu model R5912-MOD, suitable for cryogenic applications. A total of 400 PMTs were procured from Hamamatsu and tested at room temperature to evaluate the performance of the devices and their compliance to detect the liquid argon scintillation light in the T600 detector. Furthermore 60 units were also characterized at cryogenic temperature, in liquid argon bath, to evaluate any parameter variation which could affect the scintillation light detection. All the tested PMTs were found to comply with the requirements of ICARUS T600 and a subset of 360 specimens was selected for the final installation in the detector.
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- Research Org.:
- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
- Contributing Org.:
- ICARUS/NP01 Collaboration
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1478057
- Report Number(s):
- arXiv:1807.08577; FERMILAB-PUB-18-390-ND
Journal ID: ISSN 1748-0221; 1683520
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-07CH11359
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Journal of Instrumentation
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 13; Journal Issue: 10; Journal ID: ISSN 1748-0221
- Publisher:
- Institute of Physics (IOP)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 46 INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; Photon detectors for UV, visible and IR photons (vacuum) (photomultipliers, HPDs, others); Noble liquid detectors (scintillation, ionization, double-phase); Time projection chambers
Citation Formats
Babicz, M., Bagby, L., Baibussinov, B., Bellini, V., Bonesini, M., Braggiotti, A., Centro, S., Cervi, T., Cocco, A. G., Falcone, A., Farnese, C., Fava, A., Fichera, F., Gibin, D., Guglielmi, A., Kose, U., Mazza, R., Menegolli, A., Meng, G., Montanari, C., Nessi, M., Picchi, P., Pietropaolo, F., Prata, M. C., Rappoldi, A., Raselli, G. L., Rossella, M., Rubbia, C., Sala, P., Scaramelli, A., Sergiampietri, F., Spanu, M., Torti, M., Tortorici, F., Varanini, F., Ventura, S., Vignoli, C., and Zani, A. Test and characterization of 400 Hamamatsu R5912-MOD photomultiplier tubes for the ICARUS T600 detector. United States: N. p., 2018.
Web. doi:10.1088/1748-0221/13/10/P10030.
Babicz, M., Bagby, L., Baibussinov, B., Bellini, V., Bonesini, M., Braggiotti, A., Centro, S., Cervi, T., Cocco, A. G., Falcone, A., Farnese, C., Fava, A., Fichera, F., Gibin, D., Guglielmi, A., Kose, U., Mazza, R., Menegolli, A., Meng, G., Montanari, C., Nessi, M., Picchi, P., Pietropaolo, F., Prata, M. C., Rappoldi, A., Raselli, G. L., Rossella, M., Rubbia, C., Sala, P., Scaramelli, A., Sergiampietri, F., Spanu, M., Torti, M., Tortorici, F., Varanini, F., Ventura, S., Vignoli, C., & Zani, A. Test and characterization of 400 Hamamatsu R5912-MOD photomultiplier tubes for the ICARUS T600 detector. United States. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/13/10/P10030
Babicz, M., Bagby, L., Baibussinov, B., Bellini, V., Bonesini, M., Braggiotti, A., Centro, S., Cervi, T., Cocco, A. G., Falcone, A., Farnese, C., Fava, A., Fichera, F., Gibin, D., Guglielmi, A., Kose, U., Mazza, R., Menegolli, A., Meng, G., Montanari, C., Nessi, M., Picchi, P., Pietropaolo, F., Prata, M. C., Rappoldi, A., Raselli, G. L., Rossella, M., Rubbia, C., Sala, P., Scaramelli, A., Sergiampietri, F., Spanu, M., Torti, M., Tortorici, F., Varanini, F., Ventura, S., Vignoli, C., and Zani, A. Fri .
"Test and characterization of 400 Hamamatsu R5912-MOD photomultiplier tubes for the ICARUS T600 detector". United States. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/13/10/P10030. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1478057.
@article{osti_1478057,
title = {Test and characterization of 400 Hamamatsu R5912-MOD photomultiplier tubes for the ICARUS T600 detector},
author = {Babicz, M. and Bagby, L. and Baibussinov, B. and Bellini, V. and Bonesini, M. and Braggiotti, A. and Centro, S. and Cervi, T. and Cocco, A. G. and Falcone, A. and Farnese, C. and Fava, A. and Fichera, F. and Gibin, D. and Guglielmi, A. and Kose, U. and Mazza, R. and Menegolli, A. and Meng, G. and Montanari, C. and Nessi, M. and Picchi, P. and Pietropaolo, F. and Prata, M. C. and Rappoldi, A. and Raselli, G. L. and Rossella, M. and Rubbia, C. and Sala, P. and Scaramelli, A. and Sergiampietri, F. and Spanu, M. and Torti, M. and Tortorici, F. and Varanini, F. and Ventura, S. and Vignoli, C. and Zani, A.},
abstractNote = {ICARUS T600 will be operated as far detector of the Short Baseline Neutrino program at Fermilab (U.S.A.), which foresees three liquid argon time projection chambers along the Booster Neutrino Beam line to search for a LSND-like sterile neutrino signal. The detector employs 360 photomultiplier tubes, Hamamatsu model R5912-MOD, suitable for cryogenic applications. A total of 400 PMTs were procured from Hamamatsu and tested at room temperature to evaluate the performance of the devices and their compliance to detect the liquid argon scintillation light in the T600 detector. Furthermore 60 units were also characterized at cryogenic temperature, in liquid argon bath, to evaluate any parameter variation which could affect the scintillation light detection. All the tested PMTs were found to comply with the requirements of ICARUS T600 and a subset of 360 specimens was selected for the final installation in the detector.},
doi = {10.1088/1748-0221/13/10/P10030},
journal = {Journal of Instrumentation},
number = 10,
volume = 13,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Oct 26 00:00:00 EDT 2018},
month = {Fri Oct 26 00:00:00 EDT 2018}
}
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