High rate tests of the photon detection system for the LHCb RICH Upgrade

Collaboration
Dec 21, 2017
3 pages
Published in:
  • Nucl.Instrum.Meth.A 876 (2017) 101-103
Contribution to:
  • Published: Dec 21, 2017
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Abstract: (submitter)
The photon detection system for the LHCb RICH Upgrade consists of an array of multianode photomultiplier tubes (MaPMTs) read out by custom-built modular electronics. The behaviour of the whole chain was studied at CERN using a pulsed laser. Threshold scans were performed in order to study the MaPMT pulse-height spectra at high event rates and different photon intensities. The results show a reduction in photon detection efficiency at 900 V bias voltage, marked by a 20% decrease in the single-photon peak height, when increasing the event rate from 100 kHz to 20 MHz. This reduction was not observed at 1000 V bias voltage.
Note:
  • Submitted to Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A
  • LHCb RICH Upgrade
  • 40 MHz event rate
  • MaPMT
  • RICH: upgrade
  • laser: pulsed
  • LHC-B
  • photomultiplier
  • efficiency
  • performance