Performance of novel VUV-sensitive Silicon Photo-Multipliers for nEXO

Gallina G, Guan Y, Retière F, Cao G, Bolotnikov A, Kotov I, Rescia S, Soma AK, Tsang T, Darroch L, Brunner T, Bolster J, Cohen JR, Franco TP, Gillis WC, Smalley HP, Thibado S, Pocar A, Bhat A, Jamil A, Moore DC, Adhikari G, Kharusi SA, Angelico E, Arnquist IJ, Arsenault P, Badhrees I, Bane J, Belov V, Bernard EP, Bhatta T, Breur PA, Brodsky JP, Brown E, Caden E, Cao L, Chambers C, Chana B, Charlebois SA, Chernyak D, Chiu M, Cleveland B, Collister R, Cvitan M, Dalmasson J, Daniels T, Deslandes K, DeVoe R, Di Vacri ML, Ding Y, Dolinski MJ, Dragone A, Echevers J, Eckert B, Elbeltagi M, Fabris L, Fairbank W, Farine J, Fu YS, Gallacher D, Gautam P, Giacomini G, Gingras C, Goeldi D, Gornea R, Gratta G, Hardy CA, Hedges S, Heffner M, Hein E, Holt J, Hoppe EW, Hößl J, House A, Hunt W, Iverson A, Jiang XS, Karelin A, Kaufman LJ, Kruecken R, Kuchenkov A, Kumar KS, Larson A, Leach KG, Lenardo BG, Leonard DS, Lessard G, Li G, Li S, Li Z, Licciardi C, Lindsay R, Maclellan R, Mahtab M, Majidi S, Malbrunot C, Margetak P, Martel-Dion P, Martin L, Masbou J, Massacret N, Mcmichael K, Mong B, Murray K, Nattress J, Natzke CR, Ngwadla XE, Ondze JCN, Odian A, Orrell JL, Ortega GS, Overman CT, Parent S, Perna A, Piepke A, Pletskova N, Pratte JF, Radeka V, Raguzin E, Ramonnye GJ, Rao T, Rasiwala H, Raymond K, Rebeiro BM, Richardson G, Ringuette J, Riot V, Rossignol T, Rowson PC, Rudolph L, Saldanha R, Sangiorgio S, Shang X, Spadoni F, Stekhanov V, Sun XL, Tidball A, Totev T, Triambak S, Tsang RHM, Tyuka OA, Vachon F, Vidal M, Viel S, Visser G, Wagenpfeil M, Walent M, Wamba K, Wang Q, Wang W, Wang Y, Watts M, Wei W, Wen LJ, Wichoski U, Wilde S, Worcester M, Wu WH, Wu X, Xie L, Yan W, Yang H, Yang L, Zeldovich O, Zhao J, Ziegler T (2022)

Publication Language: English

Publication Type: Journal article

Publication year: 2022

Journal

Book Volume: 82

Article Number: 1125

Journal Issue: 12

DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-022-11072-8

Abstract

Liquid xenon time projection chambers are promising detectors to search for neutrinoless double beta decay (0 nu beta beta), due to their response uniformity, monolithic sensitive volume, scalability to large target masses, and suitability for extremely low background operations. The nEXO collaboration has designed a tonne-scale time projection chamber that aims to search for 0 nu beta beta of Xe-136 with projected half-life sensitivity of 1.35 x 10(28) yr. To reach this sensitivity, the design goal for nEXO is <= 1% energy resolution at the decay Q-value (2458.07 +/- 0.31 keV). Reaching this resolution requires the efficient collection of both the ionization and scintillation produced in the detector. The nEXO design employs Silicon Photo-Multipliers (SiPMs) to detect the vacuum ultra-violet, 175 nm scintillation light of liquid xenon. This paper reports on the characterization of the newest vacuum ultra-violet sensitive Fondazione Bruno Kessler VUVHD3 SiPMs specifically designed for nEXO, as well as new measurements on new test samples of previously characterised Hamamatsu VUV4 Multi Pixel Photon Counters (MPPCs). Various SiPM and MPPC parameters, such as dark noise, gain, direct crosstalk, correlated avalanches and photon detection efficiency were measured as a function of the applied over voltage and wavelength at liquid xenon temperature (163 K). The results from this study are used to provide updated estimates of the achievable energy resolution at the decay Q-value for the nEXO design.

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TRIUMF Canada (CA) University of Chinese Academy of Sciences China (CN) Brookhaven National Laboratory United States (USA) (US) Drexel University United States (USA) (US) University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass) United States (USA) (US) Yale University United States (USA) (US) Princeton University United States (USA) (US) Carleton University Canada (CA) Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory United States (USA) (US) University of Kentucky United States (USA) (US) Sudbury Neutrino Observatory Laboratory (SNOLAB) Canada (CA) Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) / 中国科学院 China (CN) McGill University Canada (CA) Université de Sherbrooke Canada (CA) Pacific Northwest National Laboratory United States (USA) (US) University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign United States (USA) (US) Oak Ridge National Laboratory United States (USA) (US) Colorado State University United States (USA) (US) Stanford University United States (USA) (US) National Research Centre "Kurchatov Institute" / Hациональный исследовательский центр "Курчатовский Институт" Russian Federation (RU) Stanford National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC) United States (USA) (US) University of British Columbia Canada (CA) University of South Dakota United States (USA) (US) Colorado School of Mines United States (USA) (US) Université de Nantes France (FR) University of the Western Cape (UWC) South Africa (ZA) University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego, UCSD) United States (USA) (US) University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) United States (USA) (US) Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) United States (USA) (US) Indiana University United States (USA) (US) Skyline College United States (USA) (US) Institute for Basic Science Korea, Republic of (KR) Laurentian University Canada (CA) University of North Carolina Wilmington (UNCW) United States (USA) (US) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) United States (USA) (US) King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology Saudi Arabia (SA)

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APA:

Gallina, G., Guan, Y., Retière, F., Cao, G., Bolotnikov, A., Kotov, I.,... Ziegler, T. (2022). Performance of novel VUV-sensitive Silicon Photo-Multipliers for nEXO. European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields, 82(12). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-022-11072-8

MLA:

Gallina, G., et al. "Performance of novel VUV-sensitive Silicon Photo-Multipliers for nEXO." European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields 82.12 (2022).

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