668 research outputs found
Delayed avalanches in Multi-Pixel Photon Counters
Hamamatsu Photonics introduced a new generation of their Multi-Pixel Photon
Counters in 2013 with significantly reduced after-pulsing rate. In this paper,
we investigate the causes of after-pulsing by testing pre-2013 and post-2013
devices using laser light ranging from 405 to 820nm. Doing so we investigate
the possibility that afterpulsing is also due to optical photons produced in
the avalanche rather than to impurities trapping charged carriers produced in
the avalanches and releasing them at a later time. For pre-2013 devices, we
observe avalanches delayed by ns to several 100~ns at 637, 777nm and 820 nm
demonstrating that holes created in the zero field region of the silicon bulk
can diffuse back to the high field region triggering delayed avalanches. On the
other hand post-2013 exhibit no delayed avalanches beyond 100~ns at 777nm. We
also confirm that post-2013 devices exhibit about 25 times lower after-pulsing.
Taken together, our measurements show that the absorption of photons from the
avalanche in the bulk of the silicon and the subsequent hole diffusion back to
the junction was a significant source of after-pulse for the pre-2013 devices.
Hamamatsu appears to have fixed this problem in 2013 following the preliminary
release of our results. We also show that even at short wavelength the timing
distribution exhibit tails in the sub-nanosecond range that may impair the MPPC
timing performances.Comment: Submitted to JINST, 14 pages, 16 figure
A fast ethanol assay to detect seed deterioration
The most common way to test seed quality is to use a simple and reliable but time- and space-consuming germination test. In this paper we present a fast and simple method to analyse cabbage seed deterioration by measuring ethanol production from partially imbibed seeds. The method uses a modified breath analyser and is simple compared to gas chromatographic or enzymatic procedures. A modified method using elevated temperatures (40°C instead of 20°C) shortened the assay time and improved its sensitivity. The analysis showed an inverse correlation between ethanol production and seed quality (e.g. the final percentages or speed of germination and the number of normal seedlings). The increase in ethanol production was observed when cabbage seeds were deteriorated by storage under ambient conditions or hot water treatments, both of which reduced the number of normal seedlings. Premature seeds produced more ethanol upon imbibition than mature seeds. Ethanol production occurred simultaneously with oxygen consumption, indicating that lack of oxygen is not the major trigger for ethanol production
Do p+p Collisions Flow at RHIC? Understanding One-Particle Distributions, Multiplicity Evolution, and Conservation Laws
Collective, explosive flow in central heavy ion collisions manifests itself
in the mass dependence of distributions and femtoscopic length scales,
measured in the soft sector ( GeV/c). Measured
distributions from proton-proton collisions differ significantly from those
from heavy ion collisions. This has been taken as evidence that p+p collisions
generate little collective flow, a conclusion in line with naive expectations.
We point out possible hazards of ignoring phase-space restrictions due to
conservation laws when comparing high- and low-multiplicity final states.
Already in two-particle correlation functions, we see clear signals of such
phase-space restrictions in low-multiplicity collisions at RHIC. We discuss how
these same effects, then, {\it must} appear in the single particle spectra. We
argue that the effects of energy and momentum conservation actually dominate
the observed systematics, and that collisions may be much more similar to
heavy ion collisions than generally thought.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figures - To appear in the conference proceedings for
Quark Matter 2009, March 30 - April 4, Knoxville, Tennesse
Flow effects on jet profiles and multiplicities
We study the effects of low- collective flow on radiative energy loss
from high- partons traversing the QCD medium created in high-energy
nucleus-nucleus collisions. We illustrate this idea through three examples. Due
to longitudinal flow, jet profiles at the LHC present marked asymmetries in the
-plane, and widths in and of particle
distributions associated with a high- trigger at RHIC become different.
Finally, transverse flow implies an increase of high- at RHIC.Comment: LaTeX, 4 pages, 4 eps figs included using graphics, uses enclosed
svepj.clo and svjour.cls; proceedings of Hard Probes 2004, Ericeira,
Portugal, November 4th-10th 200
Application of Hamamatsu MPPC to T2K Neutrino Detectors
A special type of Hamamatsu MPPC, with a sensitive area of 1.3x1.3mm^2
containing 667 pixels with 50x50um^2 each, has been developed for the near
neutrino detector in the T2K long baseline neutrino experiment. About 60 000
MPPCs will be used in total to read out the plastic scintillator detectors with
wavelength shifting fibers. We report on the basic performance of MPPCs
produced for T2K.Comment: Contribution to the proceedings of NDIP 2008, Aix-les-Bains, France,
June 15-20, 200
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