Limits of the abilities for feeble light detection of the semiconductor photosensors used in elementary particle experiments

• Project/Area Number: 23540338
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Particle/Nuclear/Cosmic ray/Astro physics
• Research Institution: University of Fukui
• Principal Investigator: Yoshida Takuo 福井大学, 工学(系)研究科(研究院), 教授 (30220651)
• Project Period (FY): 2011-04-28 – 2016-03-31
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2015)
• Budget Amount: ¥5,200,000 (Direct Cost: ¥4,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,200,000); Fiscal Year 2015: ¥390,000 (Direct Cost: ¥300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥90,000); Fiscal Year 2014: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000); Fiscal Year 2013: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000); Fiscal Year 2012: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000); Fiscal Year 2011: ¥1,820,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥420,000)
• Keywords: 素粒子実験 / 半導体受光素子 / APD / MPPC / シンチレーション光 / チェレンコフ光

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Some of particle detectors used in elementary particle experiments detect particles by sensing feeble light such as scintillation light generated by charged particles passing through matter. We carried out the experiments to evaluate the abilities for feeble light detection of some semiconductor photosensors including avalanche photodiodes and multi-pixel photon counters(MPPCs) selected as photosensor candidates for the partilce detectors. As a result, we found that the MPPC was the most sensitive. In particular, the MPPC cooled down to -40 degrees centigrade could detect with almost 100% efficiency the quite feeble light pulse which contained only 7 photons. The photomultiplier tubes, which have usually been used in particle detectors, can never achieve such high detection efficiency for such a feeble light pulse.

Research Products

• [Journal Article] Constraints on Models of the Higgs Boson with Exotic Spin and Parity using Decays to Bottom-Antibottom Quarks in the Full CDF Data Set (2015)
  • Author(s): T. Aaltonen, S.H. Kim, T. Okusawa, Y. Seiya, D. Toback, F. Ukegawa, C. Vellidis, T. Yoshida, 他394名, 396番目
  • Journal Title: Physical Review Letters Volume: 114 Issue: 14
  • DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.114.141802
  • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research / Acknowledgement Compliant
• [Journal Article] Search for Resonances Decaying to Top and Bottom Quarks with the CDF Experiment (2015)
  • Author(s): T. Aaltonen, S.H. Kim, T. Okusawa, Y. Seiya, D. Toback, F. Ukegawa, C. Vellidis, T. Yoshida, 他394名, 398番目
  • Journal Title: Physical Review Letters Volume: 115 Issue: 6
  • DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.115.061801
  • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research / Acknowledgement Compliant
• [Journal Article] First measurement of the forward-backward asymmetry in bottom-quark pair production at high mass (2015)
  • Author(s): T. Aaltonen, S.H. Kim, T. Okusawa, Y. Seiya, D. Toback, F. Ukegawa, C. Vellidis, T. Yoshida, 他395名, 397番目
  • Journal Title: Physical Review D Volume: 92 Issue: 3
  • DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.92.032006
  • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research / Acknowledgement Compliant
• [Journal Article] Precise measurement of the W-boson mass with the Collider Detector at Fermilab (2014)
  • Author(s): T. Aaltonen, S.H. Kim, T. Okusawa, Y. Seiya, D. Toback, F. Ukegawa, C. Vellidis, T. Yoshida, 他407名, 409番目
  • Journal Title: Physical Review D Volume: 89 Issue: 7
  • DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.89.072003
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Study of top-quark production and decays involving a tau lepton at CDF and limits on a charged Higgs boson contribution (2014)
  • Author(s): T. Aaltonen, S.H. Kim, T. Okusawa, Y. Seiya, D. Toback, F. Ukegawa, C. Vellidis, T. Yoshida, 他400名, 402番目
  • Journal Title: Physical Review D Volume: 89 Issue: 9
  • DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.89.091101
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Observation of s-Channel Production of Single Top Quarks at the Tevatron (2014)
  • Author(s): T. Aaltonen, S.H. Kim, T. Okusawa, Y. Seiya, D. Toback, F. Ukegawa, C. Vellidis, T. Yoshida, 他759名, 752番目
  • Journal Title: Physical Review Letters Volume: 112 Issue: 23
  • DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.112.231803
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Search for Supersymmetry with Like-Sign Lepton-Tau Events at CDF (2013)
  • Author(s): T. Aaltonen, S.H. Kim, T. Okusawa, L. Ristori, Y. Seiya, F. Ukegawa, C. Vellidis, T. Yoshida, 他403名, 405番目
  • Journal Title: Physical Review Letters Volume: 110 Issue: 20
  • DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.110.201802
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Combination of searches for the Higgs boson using the fukk CDF data set (2013)
  • Author(s): T. Aaltonen, S.H. Kim, T. Okusawa, L. Ristori, Y. Seiya, F. Ukegawa, C. Vellidis, T. Yoshida, 他402名, 404番目
  • Journal Title: Physical Review D Volume: 88 Issue: 5 Pages: 52013-52013
  • DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.88.052013
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Observation of the Production of a W Boson in Association with a Single Charm Quark (2013)
  • Author(s): T. Aaltonen, S.H. Kim, I. Nakano, T. Okusawa, L. Ristori, Y. Seiya, F. Ukegawa, C. Vellidis, T. Yoshida, 他465名, 468番目
  • Journal Title: Physical Review Letters Volume: 110 Issue: 7
  • DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.110.071801
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Search for neutral Higgs bosons in events with multiple bottom quarks at the Tevatron (2012)
  • Author(s): T. Aaltonen, S.H. Kim, I. Nakano, T. Okusawa, L. Ristori, Y. Seiya, F. Ukegawa, C. Vellidis, T. Yoshida, 他855名, 846番目
  • Journal Title: Physical Review D Volume: 86 Issue: 9
  • DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.86.091101
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Precision Top-Quark Mass Measurements at CDF (2012)
  • Author(s): T. Aaltonen, S.H. Kim, I. Nakano, T. Okusawa, L. Ristori, Y. Seiya, F. Ukegawa, C. Vellidis, T. Yoshida, 他465名, 466番目
  • Journal Title: Physical Review Letters Volume: 109 Issue: 15
  • DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.109.152003
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Measurement of the top quark mass in the all-hadronic mode at CDF (2012)
  • Author(s): T. Aaltonen, S.H. Kim, I. Nakano, T. Okusawa, G. Punzi, R. Roser, Y. Seiya, F. Ukegawa, T. Yoshida, 他465名, 466番目
  • Journal Title: Physics Letters B Volume: 714 Issue: 1 Pages: 24-31
  • DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2012.06.007
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Search for Higgs bosons produced in association with b quarks (2012)
  • Author(s): T. Aaltonen, S.H. Kim, T. Okusawa, G. Punzi, R. Roser, Y. Seiya, F. Ukegawa, T. Yoshida, 他503名、504番目
  • Journal Title: Physical Review D Volume: 85 Issue: 3
  • DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.85.032005
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Top-Quark Mass Measurement using events with missing transverse energy and jets at CDF (2011)
  • Author(s): T.Aaltonen, S.H.Kim, et al
  • Journal Title: Phys.Rev.Lett. Volume: 107 Issue: 23
  • DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.107.232002
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Presentation] BGOファイバーのγ線エネルギー分解能向上のための研究 (2015)
  • Author(s): 田後佑典，小川祐生，吉田拓生
  • Organizer: 2015年度 日本物理学会北陸支部 定例学術講演会
  • Place of Presentation: 金沢大学
  • Year and Date: 2015-11-28
• [Presentation] 素粒子実験に用いるAPDの微弱光に対する検出効率向上の研究 (2014)
  • Author(s): 図師太一，折笠桂輔，吉田拓生
  • Organizer: 2014年度 日本物理学会北陸支部 定例学術講演会
  • Place of Presentation: 福井大学
  • Year and Date: 2014-12-13
• [Presentation] 素粒子実験で用いる受光素子の微弱光検出能力の研究 (2014)
  • Author(s): 折笠桂輔，図師太一，吉田拓生
  • Organizer: 2014年度 日本物理学会北陸支部 定例学術講演会
  • Place of Presentation: 福井大学
  • Year and Date: 2014-12-13
• [Presentation] シンチレーションカウンターの代替となるチェレンコフカウンターの検出効率 (2013)
  • Author(s): 行方 彩、吉田拓生
  • Organizer: 2013年度日本物理学会北陸支部定例学術講演会
  • Place of Presentation: 富山大学
• [Presentation] 素粒子実験で用いるアバランシェフォトダイオードの過剰雑音の研究
  • Author(s): 清水佑亮，井上博貴，小村祥太，吉田拓生
  • Organizer: 日本物理学会2012年秋季大会
  • Place of Presentation: 京都産業大学
• [Presentation] 微弱シンチレーション光の読み出しに用いるMPPCの温度特性
  • Author(s): 永島幹也，小森亮太，田中里依，服部智也，前川貴昭，吉田拓生
  • Organizer: 日本物理学会2012年秋季大会
  • Place of Presentation: 京都産業大学
• [Presentation] MPPCバイアス電圧自動温度補償システムの開発
  • Author(s): 田中里依，永島幹也，吉田拓生
  • Organizer: 2012年度日本物理学会北陸支部 定例学術講演会
  • Place of Presentation: 金沢大学
• [Presentation] シンチレーティングファイバーの読み出しに用いるMPPCの温度特性
  • Author(s): 小森亮太，永島幹也，服部智也，吉田拓生
  • Organizer: 2011年度日本物理学会北陸支部定例学術講演会
  • Place of Presentation: 福井大学
• [Presentation] カロリメーターで用いるAPDの過剰雑音の研究
  • Author(s): 清水佑亮，小村祥太，井上博貴，吉田拓生
  • Organizer: 2011年度日本物理学会北陸支部定例学術講演会
  • Place of Presentation: 福井大学
• [Presentation] シンチレーションカウンターの代替となるチェレンコフカウンターの開発
  • Author(s): 梶 瑞季，竹生裕香，吉田拓生
  • Organizer: 2011年度日本物理学会北陸支部定例学術講演会
  • Place of Presentation: 福井大学
• [Remarks] 素粒子実験で用いる半導体受光素子の微弱光検出能力の限界を探る
  • URL: http://apphy.u-fukui.ac.jp/~yoshida/main.htm
• [Remarks] 素粒子実験で用いる半導体受光素子の微弱光検出能力の限界を探る
  • URL: http://apphy.u-fukui.ac.jp/~yoshida/photosensor/photosensor.htm
• [Remarks] 素粒子実験で用いる半導体受光素子の微弱光検出能力の限界を探る
  • URL: http://apphy.u-fukui.ac.jp/~yoshida/photosensor/photosensor.htm
• [Remarks]
  • URL: http://apphy.u-fukui.ac.jp/~yoshida/main.htm