TY  - JOUR
AU  - Double Chooz collaboration (Abe, Y. et al
AU  - Novella, P.
PY  - 2016
DA  - 2016//
TI  - Characterization of the spontaneous light emission of the PMTs used in the Double Chooz experiment
T2  - J. Instrum.
JO  - Journal of Instrumentation
SP  - P08001 - 25pp
VL  - 11
PB  - Iop Publishing Ltd
KW  - Detector design and construction technologies and materials
KW  - Neutrino detectors
KW  - Photoemission
AB  - During the commissioning of the first of the two detectors of the Double Chooz experiment, an unexpected and dominant background caused by the emission of light inside the optical volume has been observed. A specific study of the ensemble of phenomena called Light Noise has been carried out in-situ, and in an external laboratory, in order to characterize the signals and to identify the possible processes underlying the effect. Some mechanisms of instrumental noise originating from the PMTs were identified and it has been found that the leading one arises from the light emission localized on the photomultiplier base and produced by the combined effect of heat and high voltage across the transparent epoxy resin covering the electric components. The correlation of the rate and the amplitude of the signal with the temperature has been observed. For the first detector in operation the induced background has been mitigated using online and offline analysis selections based on timing and light pattern of the signals, while a modification of the photomultiplier assembly has been implemented for the second detector in order to blacken the PMT bases.
SN  - 1748-0221
UR  - http://arxiv.org/abs/1604.06895
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/11/08/P08001
DO  - 10.1088/1748-0221/11/08/P08001
LA  - English
N1  - WOS:000387860100001
ID  - DoubleChoozcollaborationAbe+Novella2016
ER  -