Aug 12 – 13, 2026
Laurentian University
Canada/Eastern timezone

Vacuum Ultraviolet Measurements of Electron-Hole Pair Production Probabilities in Geiger-mode Avalanching Photodetectors

Aug 13, 2026, 10:12 AM
12m
C-203 (Laurentian University)

C-203

Laurentian University

Session VI Presentations

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Celena Guo

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Accurate characterization of electron-hole pair production probabilities is essential for reconstructing energy depositions in silicon at the eV scale, enabling next-generation rare-event searches such as the XLZD dark matter experiment. This work extends previous quantum yield measurements to higher vacuum ultraviolet photon energies (up to 10 eV) and introduces a more robust computational analysis for extracting electron–hole pair production probabilities from avalanche timing data.

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