{"paper":{"title":"Characterization of the Hamamatsu VUV4 MPPCs for nEXO","license":"http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/","headline":"","cross_cats":["physics.ins-det"],"primary_cat":"astro-ph.IM","authors_text":"A. Craycraft, A. Der Mesrobian-Kabakian, A. De St. Croix, A. Dragone, A. House, A. Iverson, A. Jamil, A. Karelin, A. K. Soma, A. Kuchenkov, A. Larson, A. Odian, A. Piepkez, A. Pocar, A. Robinson, B. Cleveland, B.G. Lenardo, B. Mong, C. Chambers, C. Licciardi, C. T. Overman, D. Beck, D. C. Moore, D. Fairbank, D. Kodroff, D. Qiu, D. S. Leonarda, E. Brown, E. Raguzin, E. V. Hansen, E. W. Hoppe, F. Nolet, F. Retiere, F. Vachon, G. Anton, G. F. Cao, G. Gallina, G. Giacomini, G. Gratta, G. Lic, G. S. Ortega, G. St-Hilaire, G. Visser, G. Zhang, H. Yang, I. Badhrees, I.J. Arnquist, I. Ostrovskiy, J. Blatchford, J. Dalmasson, J. Dilling, J. Echevers, J. Farine, J.-F. Pratte, J. Ho{\\ss}l, J. Kroeger, J. L. Orrell, J.-L. Vuilleumier, J. P. Brodsky, J. Todd, J. Watkins, J. Zhao, K. Murray, K. Odgers, K. Skarpaas VIII, K. S. Kumar, L. Cao, L. Darroch, L. Doria, L. Fabris, L. J. Kaufman, L. J. Wen, L. Yang, M. Alfaris, M. Chiu, M. Coon, M. Elbeltagi, M. Heffner, M. Hughes, M. J. Dolinski, M. J. Jewell, M. Medina-Peregrina, M. Oriunno, M. Richman, M. Tarka, M. Wagenpfeil, M. Walent, M. Ward, M. Weber, N. Roy, O. Njoya, O. Nusair, O. Zeldovich, P. C. Rowson, P. Gautam, P. Giampa, P. Lv, P. Margetak, P. Nakarmi, P.S. Barbeau, Q. Wang, Q. Xia, R. DeVoe, R. Fontaine, R. Gornea, R. J. Newby, R. Krucken, R. MacLellan, R. Saldanha, R. Tsang, S. A. Charlebois, S. Al Kharusi, S. Feyzbakhsh, S. J. Daugherty, S. Lik, S. Parent, S. Rescia, S. Sangiorgio, S. X. Wu, T. Bhatta, T. Brunner, T. Daniels, T. I. Totev, T. Koffas, T. McElroy, T. Michel, T. Rossignol, T. Stiegler, T. Tolba, T. Tsang, T. Ziegler, U. Wichoski, V. Belov, V. Radeka, V. Stekhanov, V. Veeraraghavan, W. Fairbank, W. H. Wu, W. R. Cen, W. Wei, X. L. Sun, X. S. Jiang, X. Wu, Y. H. Linw, Y. Ito, Y. Lana, Y.-R. Yen, Y. Y. Ding, Y. Zhou, Z. Li, Z. Ning","submitted_at":"2019-03-08T20:37:11Z","abstract_excerpt":"In this paper we report on the characterization of the Hamamatsu VUV4 (S/N: S13370-6152) Vacuum Ultra-Violet (VUV) sensitive Silicon Photo-Multipliers (SiPMs) as part of the development of a solution for the detection of liquid xenon scintillation light for the nEXO experiment. Various SiPM features, such as: dark noise, gain, correlated avalanches, direct crosstalk and Photon Detection Efficiency (PDE) were measured in a dedicated setup at TRIUMF. SiPMs were characterized in the range $163 \\text{ } \\text{K} \\leq \\text{T}\\leq 233 \\text{ } \\text{K}$. At an over voltage of $3.1\\pm0.2$ V and at $"},"claims":{"count":0,"items":[],"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"source":{"id":"1903.03663","kind":"arxiv","version":3},"verdict":{"id":null,"model_set":{},"created_at":null,"strongest_claim":"","one_line_summary":"","pipeline_version":null,"weakest_assumption":"","pith_extraction_headline":""},"references":{"count":0,"sample":[],"resolved_work":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57","internal_anchors":0},"formal_canon":{"evidence_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"author_claims":{"count":0,"strong_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"builder_version":"pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1"}