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Title: The STAR TPC front end electronics

Conference ·
OSTI ID:192527

The Solenoidal Tracker at RHIC (STAR) uses a large time projection chamber. Each of the 136,600 pads is instrumented with a waveform digitizer, implemented in custom low noise preamplifier/shaper and switched capacitor array/ADCs ICs. The system is highly integrated with all analog functions mounted on small cards that plug into the TPC. Detector mounted readout boards multiplex data from 1152 channels onto a 1.5 Gbit/sec fiber optic link to the data acquisition system.

Research Organization:
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
DOE Contract Number:
AC03-76SF00098
OSTI ID:
192527
Report Number(s):
LBL-37706; CONF-9509290-1; ON: DE96004745; TRN: 96:006199
Resource Relation:
Conference: 1. workshop on electronics for LHC detectors, Lisbon (Portugal), 11-15 Sep 1995; Other Information: PBD: Oct 1995
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English