Title :
Development of Multi-Pixel Photon counters for T2K long baseline neutrino experiment
Author :
Minamino, Akihiro ; Nagai, Naoki ; Orme, Daniel ; Nakaya, Tuyoshi ; Yokoyama, Masashi ; Nakadaira, Takeshi ; Murakami, Takeshi ; Tanaka, Manobu ; Retiere, Fabrice ; Vacheret, Antonin ; Kudenko, Yuri
Author_Institution :
Department of Physics, Kyoto University, Kitashirakawa Oiwakecho, Sakyoku, 606-8502 Japan
Abstract :
We have developed a special 1.3 × 1.3 mm type MPPC (667 pixels with 50 × 50 μm2 each) with Hamamatsu Photonics for the Tokai to Kamioka (T2K) long baseline neutrino experiment. 60,000 MPPCs will be used in the T2K neutrino detectors, which will be the first time that MPPCs have been used on such a large scale. We tested 17,000 MPPCs for the T2K near detectors. We report on the basic performance of the MPPCs.
Keywords :
Counting circuits; Large-scale systems; Magnetic fields; Neutrino sources; Nuclear and plasma sciences; Photonics; Physics; Radiation detectors; Solid scintillation detectors; Testing; Giger-mode APD; MPPC; Neutrino detector;
Conference_Titel :
Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, 2008. NSS '08. IEEE
Conference_Location :
Dresden, Germany
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2714-7
Electronic_ISBN :
1095-7863
DOI :
10.1109/NSSMIC.2008.4775012
