Fast Coincidence Filter for Silicon Photomultiplier Dark Count Rate Rejection

Autor: Diego Real, David Calvo, Juan de Dios Zornoza, Mario Manzaneda, Rebecca Gozzini, Carlos Ricolfe-Viala, Rafael Lajara, Francisco Albiol
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2024
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Zdroj: Sensors, Vol 24, Iss 7, p 2084 (2024)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1424-8220
DOI: 10.3390/s24072084
Popis: Silicon Photomultipliers find applications across various fields. One potential Silicon Photomultiplier application domain is neutrino telescopes, where they may enhance the angular resolution. However, the elevated dark count rate associated with Silicon Photomultipliers represents a significant challenge to their widespread utilization. To address this issue, it is proposed to use Silicon Photomultipliers and Photomultiplier Tubes together. The Photomultiplier Tube signals serve as a trigger to mitigate the dark count rate, thereby preventing undue saturation of the available bandwidth. This paper presents an investigation into a fast and resource-efficient method for filtering the Silicon Photomultiplier dark count rate. A low-resource and fast coincident filter has been developed, which removes the Silicon Photomultiplier dark count rate by using as a trigger the Photomultiplier Tube input signals. The architecture of the coincidence filter, together with the first results obtained, which validate the effectiveness of this method, is presented.
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