In-situ calibration of the single-photoelectron charge response of the IceCube photomultiplier tubes
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IceCube Collaboration
Arguelles Delgado, Carlos A
Axani, Spencer Nicholas
Collin, G. H.
Conrad, Janet Marie
Diaz, Alejandro
Moulai, Marjon H.
Date Issued
2020
Journal
Journal of Instrumentation
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IOP Publishing
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Author's final manuscript
Abstract
© 2020 IOP Publishing Ltd and Sissa Medialab. We describe an improved in-situ calibration of the single-photoelectron charge distributions for each of the in-ice Hamamatsu Photonics R7081-02[MOD] photomultiplier tubes in the IceCube Neutrino Observatory. The characterization of the individual PMT charge distributions is important for PMT calibration, data and Monte Carlo simulation agreement, and understanding the effect of hardware differences within the detector. We discuss the single photoelectron identification procedure and how we extract the single-photoelectron charge distribution using a deconvolution of the multiple-photoelectron charge distribution.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
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https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/15/06/P06032
