• Title of article

    Performance of a photomultiplier at liquid-helium temperature

  • Author/Authors

    Meyer، نويسنده , , H.O.، نويسنده ,

  • Pages
    6
  • From page
    437
  • To page
    442
  • Abstract
    The performance of a Hamamatsu R7725-mod photomultiplier has been studied at liquid-helium temperature. When cooling from 300 to 8 K, the quantum efficiency decreases by about 10% and the gain by about 30%, afterpulses become less probable, but the dark rate increases, down to the lowest temperature measured. There is no indication against using a photomultiplier at liquid-helium temperature.
  • Keywords
    Photomultiplier , liquid helium , Photon detector
  • Journal title
    Astroparticle Physics
  • Record number

    1991861