Cryogenic Characterization of FBK RGB-HD SiPMs

• Main Authors: Alexander, T, Alici, A, Alton, A. K, Ampudia, P, Antonioli, P, Arcelli, S, Arnquist, I. J, Asner, D. M, Bonivento, W, Bossa, M, Bunker, R, Bussino, S, Cadeddu, M, Canci, N, Candela, A, Carlini, M, Chen, Y, Chepurnov, A, Chiavassa, A, Cicalò, C, Cifarelli, L, Cocco, A. G, Colocci, M, Covone, G, Crivelli, P, D'Antone, I, Rolo, M. D. Da Rocha, De Deo, M, De Filippis, G, De Rosa, G, Dellacasa, G, Devoto, A, Dionisi, C, Dolgov, A, Dussoni, S, Franco, D, Gabrieli, A, Galbiati, C, Gendotti, A, Giagu, S, Giorgi, M, Giovanetti, G. K, Grate, J. W, Grigoriev, G. Y, Guerra, M. B. B, Hoppe, E. W, Humble, P, Cabre, S. Jimenez, Korablev, D, Korga, G, Kubankin, A, Lissia, M, Machulin, I. N, Margotti, A, Marinelli, M, Milincic, R, Monroe, J, Monte, A, Napolitano, J, Agasson, A. Navrer, Nikulin, I, Nosov, V, Nozdrina, A. O, Oleinik, A, Oleynikov, V, Pandola, L, Paoloni, E, Pavletcov, V, Pelczar, K, Perotti, F, Perruzza, R, Portaluppi, D, Raffaelli, F, Razeto, A, Renshaw, A. L, Riffard, Q, Rivetti, A, Rossi, N, Rubbia, A, Salatino, P, Sant, M, Santorelli, R, Savarese, C, Scioli, G, Sechi, E, Segreto, E, Seifert, A, Serci, S, Skorokhvatov, M. D, Sotnikov, A, Stanford, C, Suffritti, G. B, Suvorov, Y, Tartaglia, R, Villa, F, Vishneva, A, Vogelaar, B, Wahl, J, Watson, A. W, Wu, S
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: 12-09-2017
• Subjects: Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
• DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.1705.07028

We report on the cryogenic characterization of Red Green Blue - High Density
(RGB-HD) SiPMs developed at Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK) as part of the
DarkSide program of dark matter searches with liquid argon time projection
chambers. A dedicated setup was used to measure the primary dark noise, the
correlated noise, and the gain of the SiPMs at varying temperatures. A
custom-made data acquisition system and analysis software were used to
precisely characterize these parameters. We demonstrate that FBK RGB-HD SiPMs
with low quenching resistance (RGB-HD-LR$_q$) can be operated from 40 K to 300
K with gains in the range $10^5$ to $10^6$ and noise rates on the order of a
few Hz/mm$^2$.