Qualification Tests of 474 Photomultiplier Tubes for the Inner Detector of the Double Chooz Experiment

Abstract

The hemispherical 10" photomultiplier tube (PMT) R7081 from Hamamatsu Photonics K.K. (HPK) is used in various experiments in particle and astroparticle physics. We describe the test and calibration of 474 PMTs for the reactor antineutrino experiment Double Chooz. The unique test setup at Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik Heidelberg (MPIK) allows one to calibrate 30 PMTs simultaneously and to characterize the single photo electron response, transit time spread, linear behaviour and saturation effects, photon detection efficiency and high voltage calibration.

Cited by in corpus (11)

• Improved measurements of the neutrino mixing angle ${\theta }_{13}$ with the Double Chooz detector
• Mass Testing and Characterization of 20-inch PMTs for JUNO
• Qualification Tests of the R11410-21 Photomultiplier Tubes for the XENON1T Detector
• Improved quality tests of R11410-21 photomultiplier tubes for the XENONnT experiment
• Transit Time and Charge Correlations of Single Photoelectron Events in R7081 PMTs
• A container-based facility for testing 20'000 20-inch PMTs for JUNO
• Optical properties of low background PEN structural components for the LEGEND-200 experiment
• A Novel Low-Background Photomultiplier Tube Developed for Xenon Based Detectors
• Characterisation of the Temperature-dependent Dark Rate of Hamamatsu R7081-100 10" Photomultiplier Tubes
• A Simple Apparatus for Testing PMT Humidity Tolerance
• Picosecond laser test unit for photosensor characterization at ambient and low temperatures