Conveners
Astroparticle and space applications: Part 1
- Hiro Tajima (Dept. of Physical Science, Hiroshima Univ. ISEE, Nagoya Univ.)
Astroparticle and space applications: Part 2
- Eugenio Scapparone (BO)
Astroparticle and space applications: Part 3
- Giovanni Ambrosi (PG)
Astroparticle and space applications: Part 4
- Jon Lapington (University of Leicester)
I will illustrate the main parameter extraction methods and calibration strategy of large area SiPM operating in a large noise environment.
I will also discuss a camera developed for gamma-ray astronomy and its operation and calibration.
Recently, the ASTRI project has placed a contract with Hamamatsu Photonics to acquire hundreds of SiPM tiles to build 10 cameras with 37 tiles each for the mini array of 9 Cherenkov telescopes of the ASTRI Project. Each tile is constituted by 8x8 pixels of 7x7 mm2 with micro-cell of 75 µm. To check the quality of the delivered tiles a complex and fine test plan has been studied. The...
The First G-APD Cherenkov Telescope (FACT) is pioneering the usage of SiPMs in Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes. Its camera consists of 1440 SiPMs, each coupled to a solid light-guide and an individual read out channel. In October 2011, the camera was installed in a refurbished telescope structure with a mirror area of 9.5m^2 at the Canary island La Palma, and successful data taking...
Near UltraViolet High Density (NUV-HD) SiPMs produced by Fondazione Bruno Kessler in collaboration with INFN have been tested and characterized in INFN laboratories. The third generation of these devices (HD3) has proven to be suitable to equip the focal plane of the prototype Schwarzschild-Couder Medium Size Telescope (pSCT) proposed for the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory. Photosensors...
The Large Size Telescope (LST) is the largest telescope of the Cherenkov Telescope Array project, with a diameter of 23m and a focal plane instrumentation of 4 square meters. In the current design, it comprises cameras equipped with arrays of 1855 photomultiplier tubes (PMTs). Each PMT has a light concentrator in front to reduce the stray light as well as to reduce the dead space between PMTs....
The use of SiPMs has been very early associated to readout ASICs as they were used in often large numbers to cover a reasonable area. OMEGA laboratory started in the early days to design readout ASICs for calorimetry in high enery physics, with chips as SPIROC or EASIROC/CITIROC. The performance and compactness provided by these ASICs helped to make the SiPM arrays easy to use. The excellent...
The Cherenkov Telescope Array is the new gamma-ray observatory consisting of three types of telescopes to cover the energy range from 20 GeV to 300 TeV. In the current design of medium- sized and large-sized telescopes, photomultiplier tubes (PMTs) are used as photon detectors in camera modules. Initially they were chosen due to their low cost and quantum efficiency (QE) curve corresponding...
Astroparticle and High Energy Astrophysics space missions measuring extensive air showers produced by cosmic rays and neutrinos in atmosphere require detection of very faint and intense UV-VIS light. Characteristics of the new generation of SiPM (Silicon PhotoMultiplier) are potentially right for this purpose. Their high intrinsic gain, low power consumption, low weight and robustness against...
We present the development status of a Cherenkov telescope for the detection of earth-skimming ultrahigh energy (UHE) tau neutrinos. While the telescope is developed for a long-duration balloon mission and serves as a precursor for the space-borne PEOMMA mission, the SiPM camera and readout electronics also meet the requirements for a ground-based air-shower UHE neutrino telescope. The design...
The High Energy cosmic-Radiation Detection (HERD) facility will be one of the future astronomy missions on board the Chinese Space Station (CSS).
The main objective of HERD is the direct detection of cosmic rays towards the “knee” region (∼ 1 PeV), with an excellent energy resolution (< 1% for electrons and photons at 200 GeV and 20% for nuclei from 100 GeV to PeV) and an
unprecedented...
The High Energy Cosmic Radiation Detection (HERD) facility onboard the future China’s Space Station (CSS) will be able to detect charged cosmic rays and gamma rays from few GeV to PeV energies, giving a valuable contribution in several scientific topics, such as dark matter searches in astrophysical objects, the study of cosmic ray chemical composition and high energy gamma-ray observations....
Silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) are an attractive option for space-based detectors for astrophysics because of their ruggedness, low size/weight/power requirements, and reproducibility. The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory has utilized its in-house experience in both astrophysics and detector development to design, characterize, instrument, and deploy SiPM arrays for space applications. The...
The FERS-5200 is the new CAEN Front-End Readout System, which is a cost effective, scalable and distributed
front-end & data acquisition system for large detector arrays. It consists in a compact and easy-deployable
solution integrating front-ends based on ASICs, A/D conversion, data processing, synchronization and readout.
Using the appropriate ASIC the solution perfectly fits a wide range of...
The first simultaneous detection of a short gamma-ray burst (sGRB) with a gravitational-wave (GW) signal provided direct proof that binary neutron star mergers are a progenitor of short gamma-ray bursts (sGRBs) and propelled astronomy into the multi-messenger era. In order to further study the connection between gravitational waves and sGRBs, and thus enable multi-messenger science, we must...
The Probe of Extreme Multi-Messenger Astrophysics (POEMMA) mission plans to use two orbiting Schmidt telescopes to stereoscopically measure the air fluorescence signal from extensive air showers (EASs) from ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs), above 20 EeV, as well as the Cherenkov signal from upward-moving EASs induced from tau neutrino interactions in the Earth. Each POEMMA focal plane is...
In this work we will describe the development of SiPM for space-borne
detectors for astroparticle physics research. The first known use of
SiPM in space was in 2005, installed in the Lazio-Sirad experiment in the
framework of Roberto Vittori's mission on board of the International
Space Station. The SiPM developed at Mephi by Dolgoshein have been used
as readout of a small calorimeter to...
A scintillation detector for a gamma-ray satellite mission should have low power-consumption and be compact.
For observing the gamma-ray sky, low energy threshold and high energy resolution are required furthermore.
Silicon Photomultipliers (Si-PMs) are considered as a solid-state sensor alternative to photomultiplier tubes in a future satellite using scintillation materials as a radiation...
