First tests and long-term prospects of Geigermode avalanche photodiodes as camera sensors for IACTs

2); Dieter Renker (4) ((1) Max-Planck-Instit f\"ur Physik; Eckart Lorenz (1; Germany (2) ETH Z\"urich; Hiroko Miyamoto (1); M\"unchen; Nepomuk Otte (3); Razmick Mirzoyan (1); Switzerland); Switzerland (3) University of California at Santa Cruz

arxiv: 0907.0853 · v1 · submitted 2009-07-05 · 🌌 astro-ph.IM

First tests and long-term prospects of Geigermode avalanche photodiodes as camera sensors for IACTs

Eckart Lorenz (1 , 2) , Razmick Mirzoyan (1) , Hiroko Miyamoto (1) , Nepomuk Otte (3) , Dieter Renker (4) ((1) Max-Planck-Instit f\"ur Physik , M\"unchen , Germany (2) ETH Z\"urich

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Geigermode avalanche photodiodes (G-APD) are novel photodetectors, which can detect single photons. This type of diodes might become an alternative to photomultipliers (PMT) in next-generation Imaging Air Cherenkov Telescopes. Prospects, limitations and development directions are be discussed. Results from first tests are reported.

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First tests and long-term prospects of Geigermode avalanche photodiodes as camera sensors for IACTs

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