Test and characterization of 400 Hamamatsu R5912-MOD photomultiplier tubes for the ICARUS T600 detector

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,...

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Autores principales: 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.
Lenguaje:eng
Publicado: 2018
Materias:
physics.ins-det
Detectors and Experimental Techniques
Acceso en línea:https://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/13/10/P10030
http://cds.cern.ch/record/2634094
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Sumario: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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