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Cryogenic performance of Silicon Photo-Multipliers at LN2 temperature and at 3 K in the RES-NOVA cryostat

  • Riccardo Rossini
  • Massimo Rossella
  • Massimiliano Clemenza
  • Simone Copello
  • Carlo De Vecchi
  • Stefano Dell'Oro
  • Luca Gironi
  • Claudio Gotti
  • Lisa Malliolio
  • Nicola Manenti
  • Alessandro Menegolli
  • Luca Pattavina
5 more authors
  • Daniele Peracchi
  • Simone Quitadamo
  • Marco C. Prata
  • Gian Luca Raselli
  • Laura Trombetta
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Abstract

Silicon Photo-Multipliers (SiPMs) are semiconductor-based photodetectors that offer performance comparable to that of traditional Photo-Multiplier Tubes (PMTs), while providing several advantages, including low operating voltage, immunity to magnetic fields, compact size, and mechanical robustness. These features have led to their widespread adoption in scintillator-based detectors for both fundamental and applied physics. In recent years, there has been a growing interest in the detection of scintillation light at cryogenic temperatures in low-temperature experiments based on bolometric detectors, such as RES-NOVA and CUPID, as well as in emerging quantum applications. In the RES-NOVA experiment, radiopure PbWO4 crystals are used to detect supernova neutrinos. The scintillation of PbWO4 can only be evaluated at cryogenic temperatures, as the scintillation light yield is negligible at room temperature. We present measurements of the performance at cryogenic temperatures of Hamamatsu S13360-1350CS SiPMs in terms of breakdown voltage and gain, at 77~K (in a liquid nitrogen bath) and at 3~K. The cooling down to 3~K has been carried out using a Proteox LX cryostat from Oxford Instruments.

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@misc{rossini2026cryogenic,
  title = {{Cryogenic performance of Silicon Photo-Multipliers at LN$_2$ temperature and at 3 K in the RES-NOVA cryostat}},
  author = {Riccardo Rossini and Massimo Rossella and Massimiliano Clemenza and Simone Copello and Carlo De Vecchi and Stefano Dell'Oro and Luca Gironi and Claudio Gotti and Lisa Malliolio and Nicola Manenti and Alessandro Menegolli and Luca Pattavina and Daniele Peracchi and Simone Quitadamo and Marco C. Prata and Gian Luca Raselli and Laura Trombetta},
  howpublished = {arXiv},
  year = {2026},
  month = nov,
  doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2611.01789},
  eprint = {2611.01789},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.01789},
  note = {CC BY 4.0},
}
RIS
TY  - UNPB
TI  - Cryogenic performance of Silicon Photo-Multipliers at LN_2 temperature and at 3 K in the RES-NOVA cryostat
AU  - Riccardo Rossini
AU  - Massimo Rossella
AU  - Massimiliano Clemenza
AU  - Simone Copello
AU  - Carlo De Vecchi
AU  - Stefano Dell'Oro
AU  - Luca Gironi
AU  - Claudio Gotti
AU  - Lisa Malliolio
AU  - Nicola Manenti
AU  - Alessandro Menegolli
AU  - Luca Pattavina
AU  - Daniele Peracchi
AU  - Simone Quitadamo
AU  - Marco C. Prata
AU  - Gian Luca Raselli
AU  - Laura Trombetta
PY  - 2026
DA  - 2026/11/01
PB  - arXiv
DO  - 10.48550/arxiv.2611.01789
UR  - https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.01789
AB  - Silicon Photo-Multipliers (SiPMs) are semiconductor-based photodetectors that offer performance comparable to that of traditional Photo-Multiplier Tubes (PMTs), while providing several advantages, including low operating voltage, immunity to magnetic fields, compact size, and mechanical robustness. These features have led to their widespread adoption in scintillator-based detectors for both fundamental and applied physics. In recent years, there has been a growing interest in the detection of scintillation light at cryogenic temperatures in low-temperature experiments based on bolometric detectors, such as RES-NOVA and CUPID, as well as in emerging quantum applications. In the RES-NOVA experiment, radiopure PbWO_4 crystals are used to detect supernova neutrinos. The scintillation of PbWO_4 can only be evaluated at cryogenic temperatures, as the scintillation light yield is negligible at room temperature. We present measurements of the performance at cryogenic temperatures of Hamamatsu S13360-1350CS SiPMs in terms of breakdown voltage and gain, at 77~K (in a liquid nitrogen bath) and at 3~K. The cooling down to 3~K has been carried out using a Proteox LX cryostat from Oxford Instruments.
ER  -