Performance of MPPC at low temperature

Autor: Boxiang Yu, Zhenghua An, Feng Shi, Feipeng Ning, Yuguang Xie, Chong Wu, Zhen Xue, Junguang Lu, Aiwu Zhang, Tao Hu, Lijun Sun, Li Zhou, Xilei Sun, Jian Fang, Xiao Cai, Ying-Biao Liu, Zhigang Wang, Qi-Wen Lü, Yong-Shuai Ge
Rok vydání: 2012
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Zdroj: Chinese Physics C. 36:633-638
ISSN: 1674-1137
DOI: 10.1088/1674-1137/36/7/012
Popis: The performance of a MultiPixel Photon Counter (MPPC) from room to liquid nitrogen temperatures were studied. The gain, the noise rate and bias voltage of the MPPC as a function of temperature were obtained. The experimental results show that the MPPC can work at low temperatures. At nearly liquid nitrogen temperatures, the gain of the MPPC drops obviously to 35% and the bias voltage drops about 9 V compared with that at room temperature. The thermal noise rate from 106 Hz/mm at room temperature drops abruptly to 0 Hz/mm at −100 °C. The optimized operation point can be acquired by the experiment.
Databáze: OpenAIRE