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Description
Silicon photomultiplier (SiPM) modules appear to be an interesting and inexpensive replacement for conventional photomultipliers, presenting a variety of applications as detectors. One of the difficulties using these units as detectors is having a proper readout system to acquire and process the correct information for the experiment. Thus my task over the last 4 months was to learn, develop, and design the parts of an adequate readout system using a particular SiPM. These parts include platforms to properly bias and amplify the SiPM and its signals, and a platform that will digitize and process the signals into meaningful data using an FPGA. This detector and readout system will then be used to measure the efficiency of a probe that will need to extract the product of a particular decay in the LXe TPC in the nEXO project. The topics discussed during this presentation involve the development and design process of the different platforms that will make the SiPM work, as well as the application of the knowledge gained in designing each platform.
