Acceptance Tests of more than 10 000 Photomultiplier Tubes for the multi-PMT Digital Optical Modules of the IceCube UpgradeShow others and affiliations
Number of Authors: 4262024 (English)In: Journal of Instrumentation, E-ISSN 1748-0221, Vol. 19, no 7, article id P07038Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
More than 10 000 photomultiplier tubes (PMTs) with a diameter of 80 mm will be installed in multi-PMT Digital Optical Modules (mDOMs) of the IceCube Upgrade. These have been tested and pre-calibrated at two sites. A throughput of more than 1000 PMTs per week with both sites was achieved with a modular design of the testing facilities and highly automated testing procedures. The testing facilities can easily be adapted to other PMTs, such that they can, e.g., be re-used for testing the PMTs for IceCube-Gen2. Single photoelectron response, high voltage dependence, time resolution, prepulse, late pulse, afterpulse probabilities, and dark rates were measured for each PMT. We describe the design of the testing facilities, the testing procedures, and the results of the acceptance tests.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2024. Vol. 19, no 7, article id P07038
Keywords [en]
Cherenkov detectors, Neutrino detectors, Photon detectors for UV, HPDs, others), visible and IR photons (vacuum) (photomultipliers
National Category
Subatomic Physics
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:su:diva-238442DOI: 10.1088/1748-0221/19/07/P07038Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85200553282OAI: oai:DiVA.org:su-238442DiVA, id: diva2:1931501
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