A simple and robust method to study after-pulses in Silicon Photomultipliers

Author: M.Caccia, R. Santoro, A.Stanizzi

Institute: University of Insubria

Equipments:

SP5600E Environmental KIT – Gamma Radiation Measurements, SP5600AN – Educational Kit – Premium Version with DT993 Desktop Dual timer

Abstract:

The after-pulsing probability in Silicon Photomultipliers and its time constant are obtained measuring the mean number of photo-electrons in a variable time window following a light pulse. The method, experimentally simple and statistically robust due to the use of the Central Limit Theorem, has been applied to an HAMAMATSU MPPC S10362-11-100C.