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Photo-Trap: A low-cost and low-noise large-area SiPM-based pixel
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The small sensitive area of commercial silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) is often the main limitation for their use in experiments and applications that require large detection areas. Since capacitance, dark count rate and cost increase with the SiPM size, they are rarely found in sizes larger than 6 × 6 mm2. Photo-Trap combines a wavelength-shifter plastic, a dichroic filter and a standard commercial SiPM to build pixels of a few cm2. With this approach it can collect light over an area that can be 10–100 times larger than the area of a commercial SiPM, while keeping the noise, single-photoelectron resolution, power consumption and likely the cost of a single small SiPM. We developed four different proof-of concept pixels sensitive in the near UV band, the largest one being of 40 × 40 mm2. We characterized them through laboratory measurements and Geant4 simulations. The optical gain we measured with the prototypes went from 5 to 15, while the single-photon time resolution was of 3–5 ns FWHM. With the achieved performance Photo-Trap could be a competitive low-cost alternative for applications that require photosensors with large collection areas and low noise, such as dark matter experiments and optical wireless communication.
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GUBERMAN, Daniel, WUNDERLICH, C., BARILLARO, G., CORTINA, J., PAGHI, A., PAOLETTI, R., RUGLIANCICH, A.. Photo-Trap: A low-cost and low-noise large-area SiPM-based pixel. _Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research Section A-Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment_. 2023. Vol. 1057, núm. 168670. [consulta: 25 de febrer de 2026]. ISSN: 0168-9002. [Disponible a: https://hdl.handle.net/2445/219783]