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Oct, 2007

Development and study of the multi pixel photon counter

NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTS & METHODS IN PHYSICS RESEARCH SECTION A-ACCELERATORS SPECTROMETERS DETECTORS AND ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT
  • S. Gomi
  • H. Hano
  • T. Iijima
  • S. Itoh
  • K. Kawagoe
  • S. H. Kim
  • T. Kubota
  • T. Maeda
  • T. Matsumura
  • Y. Mazuka
  • K. Miyabayashi
  • H. Miyata
  • T. Murakami
  • T. Nakadaira
  • T. Nakaya
  • H. Otono
  • E. Sano
  • T. Shinkawa
  • Y. Sudo
  • T. Takeshita
  • M. Taguchi
  • T. Tsubokawa
  • S. Uozumi
  • M. Yamaoka
  • H. Yamazaki
  • M. Yokoyama
  • K. Yoshimura
  • T. Yoshioka
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Volume
581
Number
1-2
First page
427
Last page
432
Language
English
Publishing type
Research paper (scientific journal)
DOI
10.1016/j.nima.2007.08.020
Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV

The Multi pixel Photon Counter is a novel semiconductor photon sensor which consist of 100-1600 micro APD pixels. Each piel works in limited Geiger mode with an inverse bias voltage around 80 V. The MPPC has many remarkable features such as high gain, large photon detection efficiency, low cost and tolerance for magnetic field. Fundamental properties, such as the gain, dark noise rate and inter-pixel cross-talk, have been measured with three different samples which have 100, 400, and 1600 pixels. Variation of the gain over 750 samples, and uniformity of the gain and photon sensitivity within one pixel are also evaluated. As the result of the tests, it is confirmed that the MPPC has satisfactory performance for many appplications, not only for high energy physics experiments but also for medical engineering systems. (C) 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2007.08.020
Web of Science
https://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=JSTA_CEL&SrcApp=J_Gate_JST&DestLinkType=FullRecord&KeyUT=WOS:000251039100093&DestApp=WOS_CPL
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  • DOI : 10.1016/j.nima.2007.08.020
  • ISSN : 0168-9002
  • eISSN : 1872-9576
  • Web of Science ID : WOS:000251039100093

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