Study of TTS for a 20-inch dynode PMTSupported by Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (XDA10011100) and National Natural Science Foundation of China (U1431109, 11265003)

• Published in: Chinese physics C Vol. 41; no. 7
• Main Authors: Liao, Dong-Hao, Liu, Hong-Bang, Zhou, Yi-Xiong, Luo, Feng-Jiao, Wang, Zhi-Min, Yang, An-Bo, Xu, Mei-Hang, Xie, Wan, Qin, Zhong-Hua
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: IOP Publishing 01.07.2017
• Subjects: 20-inch dynode PMT; Earth's magnetic field; transit time; TTS
• DOI: 10.1088/1674-1137/41/7/076001
• ISSN: 1674-1137

The neutrino detector for the Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) requires a large number of photomultiplier tubes (PMTs), including 15000 MCP PMTs and 5000 dynode PMTs. The TTS (transit time spread) of the PMTs is very important for vertex and track reconstruction of the neutrinos in the detector. In this paper, we study the TTS of a 20-inch dynode PMT (R12860) from Hamamatsu for different high voltage, light intensity, light spot size and different photocathode regions. The impact from Earth's magnetic field is also studied. The results achieved in this paper will be very useful for the JUNO experiment.