Design of an Efficient, High-Throughput Photomultiplier Tube Testing Facility for the IceCube Upgrade

The IceCube Collaboration

Design of an Efficient, High-Throughput Photomultiplier Tube Testing Facility for the IceCube Upgrade

The IceCube Collaboration

Physics and Astronomy

RWTH Aachen University
TU Dortmund University
Loyola University Chicago
German Electron Synchrotron
University of Canterbury
Université libre de Bruxelles
University of Copenhagen
Oskar Klein Centre
University of Geneva
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
University of Delaware
Harvard University
Marquette University
Pennsylvania State University
Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
South Dakota School of Mines & Technology
University of California at Irvine
University of California at Berkeley
Ohio State University
University of Wuppertal
Ruhr University Bochum
Technical University of Munich
University of Rochester
University of Maryland, College Park
University of Padua
University of Kansas
Moscow Engineering Physics Institute
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
Uppsala University

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Abstract

The IceCube Upgrade is an extension of the IceCube detector at the geographic South Pole. It consists of seven new strings with novel instrumentation. More than 430 multi-PMT optical modules called "mDOMs", housing 24 3-inch PMTs each, will be produced for the Upgrade. This will require testing and pre-calibration on a short timescale of more than 10,000 PMTs prior to assembly and deployment. We present the design of a PMT testing facility that enables simultaneous testing of roughly 100 PMTs per day at temperatures down to -20°C. The design is implemented at RWTH Aachen University and TU Dortmund University in parallel to achieve a throughput of up to 1,000 PMTs per week. This will enable a steady supply of tested PMTs to the production sites, which is critical for the Upgrade, as well as the future IceCube-Gen2 project.

Original language	English
Article number	1056
Journal	Proceedings of Science
Volume	395
State	Published - Mar 18 2022
Event	37th International Cosmic Ray Conference, ICRC 2021 - Virtual, Berlin, Germany Duration: Jul 12 2021 → Jul 23 2021

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Design of an Efficient, High-Throughput Photomultiplier Tube Testing Facility for the IceCube Upgrade

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