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A control circuit for the operation of Hamamatsu R11410-20 photomultiplier tubes (PMTs), which is intended for use in the RED 100 liquid-xenon emission detector, was developed. To prevent the photocathode degradation due to intense flashes that are associated with signals from high-energy cosmic-ray muons, the circuit forms a voltage pulse that is fed to the PMT photocathode and “blocks” the interelectrode gap between the photocathode and the first dynode. Thus, electron current through this gap is stopped for some time, which suffices for the complete collection of ionization electrons in the RED 100 detector after a cosmic muon passes its sensitive volume. The parameters of the circuit are selected such that the PMT relaxation time after the termination of a blocking pulse, which is determined by the transient processes in the divider, is ∼200 μs for a divider with a total resistance of 20 MΩ. This is acceptable for the intended application of the RED 100 detector in an experiment on the search for coherent neutrino scattering off xenon nuclei.
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Original Russian Text © D.Yu. Akimov, A.I. Bolozdynya, Yu.V. Efremenko, T.D. Krakhmalova, V.A. Kaplin, A.V. Kumpan, Yu.A. Melikyan, E.M. Onishchenko, V.V. Sosnovtsev, A.V. Shakirov, 2014, published in Pribory i Tekhnika Eksperimenta, 2014, No. 5, pp. 108–112.
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Akimov, D.Y., Bolozdynya, A.I., Efremenko, Y.V. et al. A controllable voltage divider for Hamamatsu R11410-20 photomultipliers for use in the RED 100 emission detector. Instrum Exp Tech 57, 615–619 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0020441214050017
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