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arXiv · 2205.08629

Mass Testing and Characterization of 20-inch PMTs for JUNO

Angel Abusleme·Thomas Adam·Shakeel Ahmad·Rizwan Ahmed·Sebastiano Aiello·Muhammad Akram·Abid Aleem·Tsagkarakis Alexandros·Fengpeng An·Qi An·Giuseppe Andronico·Nikolay Anfimov·Vito Antonelli·Tatiana Antoshkina·Burin Asavapibhop·Joao Pedro Athayde Marcondes de Andre·Didier Auguste·Weidong Bai·Nikita Balashov·Wander Baldini·Andrea Barresi·Davide Basilico·Eric Baussan·Marco Bellato·Antonio Bergnoli·Thilo Birkenfeld·Sylvie Blin·David Blum·Simon Blyth·Anastasia Bolshakova·Mathieu Bongrand·Clement Bordereau·Dominique Breton·Augusto Brigatti·Riccardo Brugnera·Riccardo Bruno·Antonio Budano·Jose Busto·Ilya Butorov·Anatael Cabrera·Barbara Caccianiga·Hao Cai·Xiao Cai·Yanke Cai·Zhiyan Cai·Riccardo Callegari·Antonio Cammi·Agustin Campeny·Chuanya Cao·Guofu Cao·Jun Cao·Rossella Caruso·Cedric Cerna·Chi Chan·Jinfan Chang·Yun Chang·Guoming Chen·Pingping Chen·Po-An Chen·Shaomin Chen·Xurong Chen·Yixue Chen·Yu Chen·Zhiyuan Chen·Zikang Chen·Jie Cheng·Yaping Cheng·Yu Chin Cheng·Alexey Chetverikov·Davide Chiesa·Pietro Chimenti·Artem Chukanov·Gerard Claverie·Catia Clementi·Barbara Clerbaux·Marta Colomer Molla·Selma Conforti Di Lorenzo·Daniele Corti·Flavio Dal Corso·Olivia Dalager·Christophe De La Taille·Zhi Deng·Ziyan Deng·Wilfried Depnering·Marco Diaz·Xuefeng Ding·Yayun Ding·Bayu Dirgantara·Sergey Dmitrievsky·Tadeas Dohnal·Dmitry Dolzhikov·Georgy Donchenko·Jianmeng Dong·Evgeny Doroshkevich·Marcos Dracos·Frederic Druillole·Ran Du·Shuxian Du·Stefano Dusini·Martin Dvorak

Abstract

Main goal of the JUNO experiment is to determine the neutrino mass ordering using a 20kt 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 5,000 of dynode PMTs from Hamamatsu Photonics K. K.(HPK).

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Angel Abusleme, Thomas Adam, Shakeel Ahmad, Rizwan Ahmed, Sebastiano Aiello, Muhammad Akram, Abid Aleem, Tsagkarakis Alexandros, Fengpeng An, Qi An, Giuseppe Andronico, Nikolay Anfimov, Vito Antonelli, Tatiana Antoshkina, Burin Asavapibhop, Joao Pedro Athayde Marcondes de Andre, Didier Auguste, Weidong Bai, Nikita Balashov, Wander Baldini, Andrea Barresi, Davide Basilico, Eric Baussan, Marco Bellato, Antonio Bergnoli, Thilo Birkenfeld, Sylvie Blin, David Blum, Simon Blyth, Anastasia Bolshakova, Mathieu Bongrand, Clement Bordereau, Dominique Breton, Augusto Brigatti, Riccardo Brugnera, Riccardo Bruno, Antonio Budano, Jose Busto, Ilya Butorov, Anatael Cabrera, Barbara Caccianiga, Hao Cai, Xiao Cai, Yanke Cai, Zhiyan Cai, Riccardo Callegari, Antonio Cammi, Agustin Campeny, Chuanya Cao, Guofu Cao, Jun Cao, Rossella Caruso, Cedric Cerna, Chi Chan, Jinfan Chang, Yun Chang, Guoming Chen, Pingping Chen, Po-An Chen, Shaomin Chen, Xurong Chen, Yixue Chen, Yu Chen, Zhiyuan Chen, Zikang Chen, Jie Cheng, Yaping Cheng, Yu Chin Cheng, Alexey Chetverikov, Davide Chiesa, Pietro Chimenti, Artem Chukanov, Gerard Claverie, Catia Clementi, Barbara Clerbaux, Marta Colomer Molla, Selma Conforti Di Lorenzo, Daniele Corti, Flavio Dal Corso, Olivia Dalager, Christophe De La Taille, Zhi Deng, Ziyan Deng, Wilfried Depnering, Marco Diaz, Xuefeng Ding, Yayun Ding, Bayu Dirgantara, Sergey Dmitrievsky, Tadeas Dohnal, Dmitry Dolzhikov, Georgy Donchenko, Jianmeng Dong, Evgeny Doroshkevich, Marcos Dracos, Frederic Druillole, Ran Du, Shuxian Du, Stefano Dusini, Martin Dvorak. 2022-05-17. Mass Testing and Characterization of 20-inch PMTs for JUNO. https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc%2Fs10052-022-11002-8

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