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Jefferson Lab Signs Contract Wth SensL For Silicon Photomultiplier Technology
Cork, Ireland and Mountain View, CA - SensL, a provider of innovative, low-light solutions that
use the company's proprietary silicon detectors, recently announced that it has signed a contract
with the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (Jefferson Lab) of Newport News, VA, for
the optimization of low-light detectors and the supply of prototypes for possible use in the lab's
GlueX experiment.
SensL’s Silicon Photomultiplier (SPM) technology offers significant benefits over other detector
technologies, such as Photomultiplier Tubes (PMTs) typically used in particle physics experiments
like GlueX. These benefits include high uniformity, low operating voltage, robustness, scalable
form factor and immunity to high magnetic fields.
"We are extremely pleased and proud that Jefferson Lab has decided to evaluate our proprietary
Silicon Photomultipliers for possible use in the calorimeter component of the GlueX detector,"
said Dr. Carl Jackson, CTO of SensL. "SensL has significantly improved the performance criteria
of the SPM to the extent that SensL now hopes to be a main contender for the supply of these
detectors when the GlueX detector is built in 2011.“
The total value of the contract for the prototype studies is $200,000.
GlueX is a nuclear physics experiment that aims to understand the nature of confinement in quantum
chromodynamics by mapping the spectra of exotic mesons generated by the excitation of the gluonic
field that binds quarks.