IceCube Tests of High Quantum Efficiency PMTs

See also the IceCube wiki page: here for more technical documentation and an index of presenations.
Set 1: first dump of plots


This plot shows tests on 30+ DOMs measured in the IceCube freezers at PSL. The data sample is the dark rate, measured on each DOM each second, using a 5-minute sample for each deadtime setting. The zero-deadtime setting readings are shown here. This is a default Hippodraw profile plot; i.e., for each temperature, the point is the mean of all the dark rates measured on all the DOMs, and the error bar is the RMS of all the dark rates.
First, noise rates are recorded in 5 minute samples for 62 doms at each of 5 deadtime settings. This is reapeated at temperatures from +25 to -45, then back. The freezer is geven ~8-10 hrs to equilibrate between readings.
The monitoring samples are averaged (currently a simple average, but hope to improve it to a histogram fit, to exclude outliers better) and plotted in Set 1:
Set 1: A plot for each DOM, showing rate versus temp at each of the 5 deadtime settings

Then, the results for each temperature and deadtime setting are averaged between DOMs: all doms are plotted, the resulting histogram is fit to a gaussian, and the mean and width of the histogram are taken as the value and error of the reading. For each deadtime setting, those plots are shown in Set 2:

Below: a plot showing each dom (y axis) with temperature (x axis) and distribution of rates (color/ z axis)
dom rates at +25

Sill to fill in:


Set 0: to DOM pages Histograms showing the spread of readings for each (dom x deadtime x temperature)

Set 2: Histograms showing the spread of doms for each (deadtime x temperature)