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T: Fachverband Teilchenphysik

T 84: Gamma-Astronomie 3

T 84.5: Talk

Wednesday, March 11, 2009, 17:45–18:00, M105

Silicon Photomultiplier developement for astroparticle physics applications — •Hiroko Miyamoto¹, Masahiro Teshima¹, Boris Dolgoshein², Razmik Mirzoyan¹, Jelena Ninkovic¹, and Thomas Schweizer¹ — ¹Max-Planck-Institute for Physics, Munich, Germany — ²Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, Moscow, Russia

A Silicon Photomultiplier (SiPM) is a novel type of photon counting device. It is compact, low cost, fast response (<100ps), with high photon detection efficiency (PDE) and high gain. It also has the big advantage, compared to Photomultiplier Tubes (PMT), of being insensitive to magnetic fields. Several kinds of SiPMs are being developed by Hamamatsu, MPI-HLL (Max-Planck-Institute for Physics - Max-Planck-Institute Semiconductor Laboratory), and MPI-MEPhI (Max-Planck-Institute for Physics - Moscow Engineering Physical Institute) for astroparticle physics applications, i.e., MAGIC, JEM-EUSO and so on. The status of development of SiPMs and their applications will be reported.