TY - JOUR
T1 - Review of the hybrid photo diode tube (HPD) an advanced light detector for physics
AU - Anzivino, G.
AU - Arnaudon, H.
AU - Baillon, P.
AU - Benetti, P.
AU - Boskma, L.
AU - Burger, P.
AU - Contin, A.
AU - DeSalvo, R.
AU - Gorodetzky, P.
AU - Grassi, D.
AU - Hao, W.
AU - He, H.
AU - Liu, L.
AU - Lundin, M.
AU - Mondardini, M. R.
AU - Paolucci, S.
AU - Rossella, M.
AU - Santiard, J. C.
AU - Schomaker, R.
AU - You, K.
AU - Wang, K.
AU - Wang, Y.
AU - Xia, X.
AU - Xu, C.
AU - Yang, C.
AU - Zhao, M.
N1 - Funding Information:
commercial device ever resulted from all these developments. Cheap, low noise, fast amplifiers, combined with advanced PIN diode and transfer tube technologies are finally making the HPD a viable and effective light detector. The latest HPD reinvention, spurred by high energy physics requirements [5], resulted in a large R&D program, first triggered and funded by the LA4 project in CERN [6,7] and subsequently by INFN commissione V [8]. Shortly after, but independently, R&D was started on this subject also by Johansen et al. [9]. The aim of the LAA and INFN R&D effort was to provide the physics community with an advanced, commercially available photon detector that would be an alternative for PM tubes, PIN diodes and avalanche photo diodes. Since one of the project aims was to quickly arrive to commercial availability of the device, it was decided to keep all the development work in an industrial environ-
PY - 1995/11/1
Y1 - 1995/11/1
N2 - The HPD is a nonmultiplicative light detector with typical gain of 1000 to 5000. Its development project, mainly supported by the CERN LAA project and by the INFN group V, was originally intended to find a replacement for the photo multiplier (PM) tubes for scintillating fibre calorimeter readout. After five years of development the HPD has become a versatile light detector, commercially available for everyday use, that can outperform PM tubes in photon counting efficiency and resolution, multi tesla magnetic field operation, uniformity of response, fast pulse dynamic range, and gain stability. The HPD has also a wide edge on PMs on pixelization potential and it is getting more and more competitive on timing properties. A review of the HPD performances and its latest advances are reported.
AB - The HPD is a nonmultiplicative light detector with typical gain of 1000 to 5000. Its development project, mainly supported by the CERN LAA project and by the INFN group V, was originally intended to find a replacement for the photo multiplier (PM) tubes for scintillating fibre calorimeter readout. After five years of development the HPD has become a versatile light detector, commercially available for everyday use, that can outperform PM tubes in photon counting efficiency and resolution, multi tesla magnetic field operation, uniformity of response, fast pulse dynamic range, and gain stability. The HPD has also a wide edge on PMs on pixelization potential and it is getting more and more competitive on timing properties. A review of the HPD performances and its latest advances are reported.
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U2 - 10.1016/0168-9002(95)00486-6
DO - 10.1016/0168-9002(95)00486-6
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0002897308
SN - 0168-9002
VL - 365
SP - 76
EP - 82
JO - Nuclear Inst. and Methods in Physics Research, A
JF - Nuclear Inst. and Methods in Physics Research, A
IS - 1
ER -