First tests and long-term prospects of Geigermode avalanche photodiodes as camera sensors for IACTs

2009/07/05 by Eckart Lorenz, E. Lorenz, R. Mirzoyan +11 · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena #Atomic and Subatomic Physics Research #FOS: Physical sciences #Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM) #Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics #astro-ph.IM

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.0907.0853

4 pages, 7 figures, to appear in the proceedings of the 31th International Cosmic Ray Conference, Lodz, Poland, 2009

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Abstract

Geigermode avalanche photodiodes (G-APD) are novel photodetectors, which can detect single photons. This type of diodes might become an alternative to photomultipliers (PMT) in next-generation Imaging Air Cherenkov Telescopes. Prospects, limitations and development directions are be discussed. Results from first tests are reported.

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