PMT characterisation for the KM3NeT project

✍ Scribed by B. Herold; O. Kalekin; J. Reubelt

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 295 KB
• Volume: 639
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0168-9002
• DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2010.09.018

✦ Synopsis

The KM3NeT project aims to design and to construct at least a cubic kilometre scale neutrino telescope in the Mediterranean Sea. The main task is to instrument this deep-sea water volume with optical modules, each housing one or several photomultiplier tubes. Three-, 8-and 10-in. PMTs from ET Enterprises, Hamamatsu and MELZ-FEU have been investigated as candidates for the telescope's optical modules. Various parameters of these photomultiplier tubes have been measured in a test bench at the Erlangen Centre for Astroparticle Physics. These results are presented.