Design of a high-speed and low-noise preamplifier for SiPM

摘要: In the R&D for upgrading the K_L⁰ and µ detector (KLM) in Belle II experiment using scintillator and silicon photomultiplier (SiPM), we design a compact preamplifier with high#2;speed and low-noise. The preamplifier has a good gain stability, a baseline noise level of σ ≈ 0.3 mV, a good time resolution that can achieve < 20 ps, and can be applied comprehensively to SiPMs. To reduce the pile-up in using a large size SiPM or an array of SiPMs, which is due to the large capacitance and high dark count rate, we adopt pole#2;zero-cancellation which reduce both the rise time and the fall time of a SiPM signal. The combinations of the preamplifier and several kinds of SiPMs show time resolutions better than 50 ps for most of the cases; when the number of detected photons is larger than 60, a time resolution of about 25 ps can be achieved