Evaluation of the upgraded 3-inch Hamamatsu photomultiplier for the KM3NeT Neutrino Telescope

the KM3NeT Collaboration

doi:10.1088/1748-0221/20/07/P07054

Evaluation of the upgraded 3-inch Hamamatsu photomultiplier for the KM3NeT Neutrino Telescope

the KM3NeT Collaboration

Physics

National Institute for Nuclear Physics
Université de Strasbourg
Université de Haute-Alsace
Khalifa University of Science and Technology
Aix-Marseille Université
University of Valencia
University of Naples Federico II
Polytechnic University of Catalonia
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Polytechnic University of Valencia
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University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli
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University of Hull
National Institute for Subatomic Physics
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Mohammed V University in Rabat
University of Salerno
Institute for Space Sciences
University of Amsterdam
Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research
University of Rome La Sapienza
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University of the Witwatersrand
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Université catholique de Louvain
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Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research - NIOZ
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Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center of the Polish Academy of Sciences
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Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy
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The 3-inch Hamamatsu R14374-02 photomultiplier tube is an improved version of the R12199-02 model and its successor in the construction of the KM3NeT neutrino telescope. A total of 1000 photomultipliers were analysed to assess their dark count rate, transit time spread, and spurious pulses. A subset of 200 photomultipliers were further evaluated to determine their quantum efficiency which is an essential parameter for Monte Carlo simulations of the detector response. The measurements show that R14374-02 model has better quantum efficiency homogeneity over the photocatode and better time properties than the R12199-02.

Original language	English
Article number	P07054
Journal	Journal of Instrumentation
Volume	20
Issue number	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/20/07/P07054
Publication status	Published - 1 Jul 2025

Keywords

Cherenkov detectors
Neutrino detectors
Optics
Photon detectors for UV, visible and IR photons (vacuum) (photomultipliers, HPDs, others)

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Mathematical Physics
Instrumentation

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Evaluation of the upgraded 3-inch Hamamatsu photomultiplier for the KM3NeT Neutrino Telescope

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