Main goal of the JUNO experiment is to determine the neutrino mass ordering using a 20 kt liquid-scintillator detector. Its key feature is an excellent energy resolution of at least 3% at 1 MeV, for which its instruments need to meet a certain quality and thus have to be fully characterized. More than 20,000 20-inch PMTs have been received and assessed by JUNO after a detailed testing program which began in 2017 and elapsed for about four years. Based on this mass characterization and a set of specific requirements, a good quality of all accepted PMTs could be ascertained. This paper presents the performed testing procedure with the designed testing systems as well as the statistical characteristics of all 20-inch PMTs intended to be used in the JUNO experiment, covering more than fifteen performance parameters including the photocathode uniformity. This constitutes the largest sample of 20-inch PMTs ever produced and studied in detail to date, i.e. 15,000 of the newly developed 20-inch MCP-PMTs from Northern Night Vision Technology Co. (NNVT) and 5000 of dynode PMTs from Hamamatsu Photonics K. K.(HPK).

Abusleme, A., Adam, T., Ahmad, S., Ahmed, R., Aiello, S., Akram, M., et al. (2022). Mass testing and characterization of 20-inch PMTs for JUNO. THE EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL. C, PARTICLES AND FIELDS, 82(12) [10.1140/epjc/s10052-022-11002-8].

Mass testing and characterization of 20-inch PMTs for JUNO

Barresi A.;Chiesa D.;Nastasi M.;Previtali E.;Sisti M.;
2022

Abstract

Main goal of the JUNO experiment is to determine the neutrino mass ordering using a 20 kt liquid-scintillator detector. Its key feature is an excellent energy resolution of at least 3% at 1 MeV, for which its instruments need to meet a certain quality and thus have to be fully characterized. More than 20,000 20-inch PMTs have been received and assessed by JUNO after a detailed testing program which began in 2017 and elapsed for about four years. Based on this mass characterization and a set of specific requirements, a good quality of all accepted PMTs could be ascertained. This paper presents the performed testing procedure with the designed testing systems as well as the statistical characteristics of all 20-inch PMTs intended to be used in the JUNO experiment, covering more than fifteen performance parameters including the photocathode uniformity. This constitutes the largest sample of 20-inch PMTs ever produced and studied in detail to date, i.e. 15,000 of the newly developed 20-inch MCP-PMTs from Northern Night Vision Technology Co. (NNVT) and 5000 of dynode PMTs from Hamamatsu Photonics K. K.(HPK).
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24-dic-2022
2022
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Abusleme, A., Adam, T., Ahmad, S., Ahmed, R., Aiello, S., Akram, M., et al. (2022). Mass testing and characterization of 20-inch PMTs for JUNO. THE EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL. C, PARTICLES AND FIELDS, 82(12) [10.1140/epjc/s10052-022-11002-8].
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