Single-electron spectra in RPWELL-based detectors

Purba Bhattacharya; Andrea Tesi; Dan Shaked-Renous; Luca Moleri; Amos Breskin; Shikma Bressler

doi:10.1088/1748-0221/16/05/P05004

Single-electron spectra in RPWELL-based detectors

Purba Bhattacharya, Andrea Tesi, Dan Shaked-Renous, Luca Moleri, Amos Breskin, Shikma Bressler

Weizmann Institute of Science, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology

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Abstract

Single-electron spectra are the key ingredient in the efficient detection of single UV-photons. In this work, we investigated the shape of single-photoelectron spectra in single and double-stage Resistive Plate WELL (RPWELL) detector configurations, operated in Ne/CH₄ and Ar/CH₄. Discharge-free operation was reached over a broad dynamic range, with charge gains of 10⁴ -10⁶. Compared to the usual exponential ones, the observed Polya-like charge spectra pave the way towards higher single-electron detection efficiencies. The latter was evaluated here, using experimental data combined with numerical simulations. The effects of the gas mixtures, electric field configuration, and detector geometry on the Polya spectra and their related “𝜃” parameter are presented.

Original language	English
Article number	P05004
Journal	Journal of Instrumentation
Volume	16
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/16/05/P05004
State	Published - May 2021

Keywords

Charge transport and multiplication in gas
Electron multipliers (gas)
Micropattern gaseous detectors (MSGC, GEM, THGEM, RETHGEM, MHSP, MICROPIC, MICROMEGAS, InGrid, etc)
Photon detectors for UV, visible and IR photons (gas) (gas-photocathodes, solidphotocathodes)

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Instrumentation
Mathematical Physics

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Single-electron spectra in RPWELL-based detectors

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