In-situ calibration of the single-photoelectron charge response of the IceCube photomultiplier tubesShow others and affiliations
Number of Authors: 3582020 (English)In: Journal of Instrumentation, E-ISSN 1748-0221, Vol. 15, no 6, article id P06032Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
We describe an improved in-situ calibration of the single-photoelectron charge distributions for each of the in-ice Hamamatsu Photonics R7081-02[MOD] photomultiplier tubes in the IceCube Neutrino Observatory. The characterization of the individual PMT charge distributions is important for PMT calibration, data and Monte Carlo simulation agreement, and understanding the effect of hardware differences within the detector. We discuss the single photoelectron identification procedure and how we extract the single-photoelectron charge distribution using a deconvolution of the multiple-photoelectron charge distribution.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2020. Vol. 15, no 6, article id P06032
Keywords [en]
Detector modelling and simulations II (electric fields, charge transport, multiplication and induction, pulse formation, electron emission, etc), Photon detectors for UV, visible and IR photons (vacuum) (photomultipliers, HPDs, others)
National Category
Physical Sciences
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:su:diva-183678DOI: 10.1088/1748-0221/15/06/P06032ISI: 000545350900032Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85091464034OAI: oai:DiVA.org:su-183678DiVA, id: diva2:1455204
2020-07-222020-07-222024-07-04Bibliographically approved