Replacement of a Photomultiplier Tube with Silicon Photomultipliers for use in Safeguards Applications

Tyana Stiegler, Kareem Kazkaz, Erik Swanberg +1

We compared the performance of a SiPM array and a PMT in a laboratory setting using a single 5.08x5.08-cm cylindrical sodium iodide scintillating crystal. Photomultiplier tubes (PM…