The camera and readout for the Trinity Demonstrator and the EUSO-SPB2 Cherenkov telescope
Abstract
We developed a modular silicon photomultiplier camera to detect Earth-skimming PeV to EeV tau neutrinos with the imaging atmospheric Cherenkov technique. We built two cameras, a 256-pixel camera for the Trinity Demonstrator located on Frisco Peak, Utah, and a 512-pixel camera for the Extreme Universe Observatory on a Super-Pressure Balloon II (EUSO-SPB2) Cherenkov Telescope. The front-end electronics are based on the Multipurpose Integrated Circuit (eMUSIC) Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs), and the camera signals are sampled and digitized with the 100MS/s and 12-bit ASIC for General Electronics for TPC (AGET) system. Both cameras are liquid-cooled. We detail the camera concept and the results from characterizing the SiPMs, bench testing, and calibrating the two cameras.
- Publication:
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Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A
- Pub Date:
- January 2025
- DOI:
- 10.1016/j.nima.2024.169999
- arXiv:
- arXiv:2406.08274
- Bibcode:
- 2025NIMPA107069999B
- Keywords:
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- Cherenkov telescope;
- Neutrinos;
- Silicon photomultipliers;
- Camera;
- Cosmic rays;
- Air-shower imaging;
- Earth-skimming;
- Trigger;
- Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics;
- Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena;
- High Energy Physics - Experiment;
- Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
- E-Print:
- Submitted to Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A