Electronics for Satellite Experiments

Conference · Tue May 16 00:00:00 EDT 2006

OSTI ID:882411

Johnson, Robert P

The tracking detector for the LAT science instrument on the GLAST mission is an example of a large-scale particle detection system built primarily by particle physicists for space flight within the context of a NASA program. The design and fabrication model in most ways reflected practice and experience from particle physics, but the quality assurance aspects were guided by NASA. Similarly, most of the electronics in the LAT as a whole were designed and built by staff at a particle physics lab. This paper reports on many of the challenges and lessons learned in the experience of designing and building the tracking detector and general LAT electronics for use in the NASA GLAST mission.

• Research Organization: SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-76SF00515
• OSTI ID: 882411
• Report Number(s): SLAC-PUB-11862; TRN: US200619%%109
• Resource Relation: Conference: Invited talk at 9th International Symposium on the Detector Development for Particle, Astroparticle and Synchrotron Radiations Experiments (SNIC 2006), Menlo Park, California, 3-6 Apr 2006
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

43 PARTICLE ACCELERATORS
DESIGN
DETECTION
FABRICATION
NASA
PHYSICS
QUALITY ASSURANCE
SATELLITES
SPACE FLIGHT
SYNCHROTRON RADIATION
Instrumentation
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