VUV-Sensitive Silicon Photomultipliers for Xenon Scintillation Light Detection in nEXO

A. Jamil, T. Ziegler, P. Hufschmidt, G. Li, L. Lupin-Jimenez, T. Michel, I. Ostrovskiy, F. Retière, J. Schneider, M. Wagenpfeil, A. Alamre, J. B. Albert, G. Anton, I. J. Arnquist, I. Badhrees, P. S. Barbeau, D. Beck, V. Belov, T. Bhatta, F. BourqueJ. P. Brodsky, E. Brown, T. Brunner, A. Burenkov, G. F. Cao, L. Cao, W. R. Cen, C. Chambers, S. A. Charlebois, M. Chiu, B. Cleveland, M. Coon, M. Côté, A. Craycraft, W. Cree, J. Dalmasson, T. Daniels, L. Darroch, S. J. Daugherty, J. Daughhetee, S. Delaquis, A. Der Mesrobian-Kabakian, R. DeVoe, J. Dilling, Y. Y. Ding, M. J. Dolinski, A. Dragone, J. Echevers, L. Fabris, D. Fairbank, W. Fairbank, J. Farine, S. Feyzbakhsh, R. Fontaine, D. Fudenberg, G. Gallina, G. Giacomini, R. Gornea, G. Gratta, E. V. Hansen, D. Harris, M. Hasan, M. Heffner, J. Hößl, E. W. Hoppe, A. House, M. Hughes, Y. Ito, A. Iverson, C. Jessiman, M. J. Jewell, X. S. Jiang, A. Karelin, L. J. Kaufman, T. Koffas, S. Kravitz, R. Krücken, A. Kuchenkov, K. S. Kumar, Y. Lan, A. Larson, D. S. Leonard, S. Li, Z. Li, C. Licciardi, Y. H. Lin, P. Lv, R. MacLellan, B. Mong, D. C. Moore, K. Murray, R. J. Newby, Z. Ning, O. Njoya, F. Nolet, O. Nusair, K. Odgers, A. Odian, M. Oriunno, J. L. Orrell, G. S. Ortega, C. T. Overman, S. Parent, A. Piepke, A. Pocar, J. F. Pratte, D. Qiu, V. Radeka, E. Raguzin, T. Rao, S. Rescia, A. Robinson, T. Rossignol, P. C. Rowson, N. Roy, R. Saldanha, S. Sangiorgio, S. Schmidt, A. Schubert, D. Sinclair, K. Skarpaas, A. K. Soma, G. St-Hilaire, V. Stekhanov, T. Stiegler, X. L. Sun, M. Tarka, J. Todd, T. Tolba, T. I. Totev, R. Tsang, T. Tsang, F. Vachon, B. Veenstra, V. Veeraraghavan, G. Visser, J. L. Vuilleumier, Q. Wang, J. Watkins, M. Weber, W. Wei, L. J. Wen, U. Wichoski, G. Wrede, S. X. Wu, W. H. Wu, Q. Xia, L. Yang, Y. R. Yen, O. Zeldovich, X. Zhang, J. Zhao, Y. Zhou

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Abstract

Future ton-scale liquefied noble gas detectors depend on efficient light detection in the vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) range. In the past years, silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) have emerged as a valid alternative to standard photomultiplier tubes or large-area avalanche photodiodes. The next-generation double-beta decay experiment, nEXO, with a 5-ton liquid xenon time projection chamber will use SiPMs for detecting the 175-nm xenon scintillation light, in order to achieve an energy resolution of σ/Qββ = 1%. This paper presents recent measurements of the VUV-HD generation SiPMs from Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy, in two complementary setups. It includes measurements of the photon-detection efficiency (PDE) with gaseous xenon scintillation light in a vacuum setup and dark measurements in a dry nitrogen gas setup. We report improved PDE at 175 nm compared to previous generation devices that would meet the criteria of nEXO. Furthermore, we present the projected nEXO detector light collection and energy resolution that could be achieved by using these SiPMs.

Original languageEnglish
Article number8490731
Pages (from-to)2823-2833
Number of pages11
JournalIEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science
Volume65
Issue number11
DOIs
StatePublished - Nov 2018

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Funding

This work was supported in part by the Offices of Nuclear and High Energy Physics within DOEs Office of Science and NSF, USA, in part by NSERC, CFI, FRQNT, NRC, and the McDonald Institute (CFREF), Canada, in part by BaCaTeC, Germany, in part by SNF, Switzerland, in part by IBS, South Korea, in part by RFBR, Russia, in part by CAS and ISTCP, China, and in part by the Laboratory Directed Research and Development Programs at the Brookhaven National Laboratory, the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. ACKNOWLEDGMENT This work was supported in part by the Offices of Nuclear and High Energy Physics within DOEs Office of Science and NSF, USA, in part by NSERC, CFI, FRQNT, NRC, and the McDonald Institute (CFREF), Canada, in part by BaCaTeC, Germany, in part by SNF, Switzerland, in part by IBS, South Korea, in part by RFBR, Russia, in part by CAS and ISTCP, China, and in part by the Laboratory Directed Research and Development Programs at the Brookhaven National Laboratory, the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.

FundersFunder number
Laboratory Directed Research and Development Programs at the Brookhaven National Laboratory
McDonald Institute
National Science Foundation1812245, 1812377, 1506051
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Laboratory Directed Research and Development
Cummings Foundation
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
National Research Council
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung
Russian Foundation for Basic Research
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Fonds de recherche du Québec – Nature et technologies
Canada First Research Excellence Fund
International Science and Technology Cooperation Programme
Bayerisch-Kalifornischen Hochschulzentrum

    Keywords

    • nEXO
    • photodetectors
    • silicon photomultiplier
    • vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) light
    • xenon detectors

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