Publications (9)
Silicon Photomultiplier Research and Development Studies for the Large Size Telescope of the Cherenkov Telescope Array
Riccardo Rando, Daniele Corti, Francesco Dazzi +26
The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the the next generation facility of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes; two sites will cover both hemispheres. CTA will reach unprecede…
Direct comparison of SiPMs and PMTs in operation with a bright background and prospects of using SPADs as truly digital sensors
Razmik Mirzoyan, Alexander Hahn, David Fink +8
The use of silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) alongside conventional photomultiplier tubes (PMTs) is a remarkable technological development in modern ground-based very high energy ga…
Hunting keV sterile neutrinos with KATRIN: building the first TRISTAN module
Thibaut Houdy, Antonio Alborini, Konrad Altenmüller +21
The KATRIN (Karlsruhe Tritium Neutrino) experiment investigates the energetic endpoint of the tritium beta-decay spectrum to determine the effective mass of the electron anti-neutr…
A novel detector system for KATRIN to search for keV-scale sterile neutrinos
Susanne Mertens, Antonio Alborini, Konrad Altenmüller +19
Sterile neutrinos are a minimal extension of the Standard Model of Particle Physics. If their mass is in the kilo-electron-volt regime, they are viable dark matter candidates. One…
Optimisation of the Read-out Electronics of Muon Drift-Tube Chambers for Very High Background Rates at HL-LHC and Future Colliders
Sebastian Nowak, Sergey Abovyan, Philipp Gadow +10
In the ATLAS Muon Spectrometer, Monitored Drift Tube (MDT) chambers and sMDT chambers with half of the tube diameter of the MDTs are used for precision muon track reconstruction. T…
Spectroscopic performance of the electrical functional models for the eXTP SFA-T detectors
Alexander Altmann, Robert Andritschke, Valeria Antonelli +11
The Spectroscopy Focusing Array (SFA) is one of the three instruments on the eXTP satellite. It consists of six telescopes plus focal plane cameras, where five are equipped with a…
Characterization measurements of the TRISTAN multi-pixel silicon drift detector
Korbinian Urban, Marco Carminati, Martin Descher +12
Sterile neutrinos are a minimal extension of the Standard Model of Particle Physics. A laboratory-based approach to search for this particle is via tritium beta-decay, where a ster…
Characterizing the aerosol atmosphere above the Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos by analyzing seven years of data taken with an GaAsP HPD-readout, absolutely calibrated elastic LIDAR
Christian Fruck, Markus Gaug, Alexander Hahn +12
We present a new elastic LIDAR concept, based on a bi-axially mounted Nd:YAG laser and a telescope with HPD readout, combined with fast FADC signal digitization and offline pulse a…
Towards SiPM camera for current and future generations of Cherenkov telescopes
Daniel Mazin, Priyadarshini Bangale, Julian Sitarek +9
So far the current ground-based Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs) have energy thresholds in the best case in the range of ~30 to 50 GeV (H.E.S.S. II and MAGIC telesc…