In-situ calibration of the single-photoelectron charge response of the IceCube photomultiplier tubes

The IceCube Collaboration

doi:10.1088/1748-0221/15/06/P06032

In-situ calibration of the single-photoelectron charge response of the IceCube photomultiplier tubes

The IceCube Collaboration

Chair of Experimental Physics with Cosmic Particles

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Abstract

We describe an improved in-situ calibration of the single-photoelectron charge distributions for each of the in-ice Hamamatsu Photonics R7081-02[MOD] photomultiplier tubes in the IceCube Neutrino Observatory. The characterization of the individual PMT charge distributions is important for PMT calibration, data and Monte Carlo simulation agreement, and understanding the effect of hardware differences within the detector. We discuss the single photoelectron identification procedure and how we extract the single-photoelectron charge distribution using a deconvolution of the multiple-photoelectron charge distribution.

Original language	English
Article number	P06032
Journal	Journal of Instrumentation
Volume	15
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/15/06/P06032
State	Published - Jun 2020

Keywords

Detector modelling and simulations II (electric fields, charge transport, multiplication and induction, pulse formation, electron emission, etc)
Photon detectors for UV
Visible and IR photons (vacuum) (photomultipliers, HPDs, others)

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In-situ calibration of the single-photoelectron charge response of the IceCube photomultiplier tubes

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