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UCLA-Cosmic/2000-2 Proposal for Production Testing of Photomultiplier Tubes for the Pierre-Auger Observatory Chris Jillings, Shimul Akhanjee, Katsushi Arisaka, David Barnhill, Mari Diaz, Chris DiPasquale, Louis Levenson, William Slater, Arun Tripathi, Jun Uehara, University of California, Los Angles Department of Physics and Astronomy Los Angles, California 90095 Contact: jillings@physics.ucla.edu August 22, 2000 Executive Summary We discuss a system whereby several thousand photomultiplier tubes (PMTs) can be tested for use in the Auger ground array. We consider the light source; electronics; data acquisition (DAQ), analysis and archiving; the physical infrastructure required; storage; and the light source. A CAMAC electronics and DAQ system, very similar to that required for Auger PMT testing, is already running for another experiment at UCLA. The UCLA group has permission from the Dean to use space in the Science and Technology Research Building. Several types of light source have been built at UCLA and it is proposed to use two of them for production testing: There is a fast, but low-intensity laser that is ideal for studying the timing resolution of the phototubes. There is also a pulsed LED system that can generate short (30 ns) pulses over a wide range of intensities. Current data suggest the LED system is sufficiently stable to test the linearity of the PMTs. Table of Contents 1 Physics Requirements 2 2 Summary of Requirements for PMT Testing 3 a. The Dark Rooms 4 b. Electronics and DAQ 4 c. Storage 5 d. The Light Source 6 e. Human Resources 8 f. Detailed Testing of a Subset of PMTs 8 3 Required Equipment and Space 8 a. Equipment and Human Resources 8 b. Facilities at the STRB at UCLA 10 4 Conclusions 11 Physics Requirements The Pierre-Auger Observatory is designed to measure cosmic rays with energies of up to 1021 eV. The ground array for the observatory will consist of water-Cherenkov tanks on a grid with a spacing of 1500 m. The PMTs and read-out