Large Area SiPM Readout and Signal Processing for nEXO

ORAL

Abstract

nEXO is a proposed 5 tonne liquid xenon time projection chamber to search for neutrinoless double beta decay of 136Xe. The central detector will implement several improvements over the previous generation experiment, EXO-200. One such improvement is the usage of silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) instead of avalanche photodiodes (APDs) as scintillation light detectors. In this presentation, I will discuss the electronics readout of large area FBK UV sensitive SiPMs at liquid xenon temperatures, the digital processing of SiPM waveforms, and some of the challenges that are common to large area readout. We tested the SiPMs in both parallel and series configurations and demonstrated that up to 6 cm2 of SiPMs can be read out by a single front end channel while maintaining nEXO requirements specified in the pre-conceptual report.

Presenters

  • Jonathan Echevers

    University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Authors

  • Jonathan Echevers

    University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign