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Title: Front-End ASIC for Liquid Argon TPC

Abstract

We present a front-end application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) for a wire based time-projection-chamber (TPC) operating in liquid Argon (LAr). The LAr TPC will be used for long baseline neutrino oscillation experiments. The ASIC must provide a low-noise readout of the signals induced on the TPC wires, digitization of those signals at 2 MSamples/s, compression, buffering and multiplexing. A resolution of better than 1000 rms electrons at 200 pF input capacitance for an input range of 300 fC is required, along with low power and operation in LAr (at 87 K). We include the characterization of a commercial technology for operation in the cryogenic environment and the first experimental results on the analog front end. The results demonstrate that complementary metal-oxide semiconductor transistors have lower noise and much improved dc characteristics at LAr temperature. Finally, we introduce the concept of '1/f equivalent' to model the low-frequency component of the noise spectral density, for use in the input metal-oxide semiconductor field-effect transistor optimization.

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Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE SC OFFICE OF SCIENCE (SC)
OSTI Identifier:
1041510
Report Number(s):
BNL-95422-2011-JA
Journal ID: ISSN 0018-9499; IETNAE; KA-04; TRN: US1202663
DOE Contract Number:  
DE-AC02-98CH10886
Resource Type:
Journal Article
Journal Name:
IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 58; Journal Issue: 3; Journal ID: ISSN 0018-9499
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
46 INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; ARGON; CAPACITANCE; COMPRESSION; CRYOGENICS; ELECTRONS; FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; NEUTRINO OSCILLATION; OPTIMIZATION; RESOLUTION; SPECTRAL DENSITY; TRANSISTORS

Citation Formats

De Geronimo, G, Li, S, D'Andragora, A, Nambiar, N, Rescia, S, Vernon, E, Chen, H, Lanni, F, Makowiecki, D, Radeka, V, Thorn, C, and Yu, B. Front-End ASIC for Liquid Argon TPC. United States: N. p., 2011. Web. doi:10.1109/TNS.2011.2127487.
De Geronimo, G, Li, S, D'Andragora, A, Nambiar, N, Rescia, S, Vernon, E, Chen, H, Lanni, F, Makowiecki, D, Radeka, V, Thorn, C, & Yu, B. Front-End ASIC for Liquid Argon TPC. United States. https://doi.org/10.1109/TNS.2011.2127487
De Geronimo, G, Li, S, D'Andragora, A, Nambiar, N, Rescia, S, Vernon, E, Chen, H, Lanni, F, Makowiecki, D, Radeka, V, Thorn, C, and Yu, B. 2011. "Front-End ASIC for Liquid Argon TPC". United States. https://doi.org/10.1109/TNS.2011.2127487.
@article{osti_1041510,
title = {Front-End ASIC for Liquid Argon TPC},
author = {De Geronimo, G and Li, S and D'Andragora, A and Nambiar, N and Rescia, S and Vernon, E and Chen, H and Lanni, F and Makowiecki, D and Radeka, V and Thorn, C and Yu, B},
abstractNote = {We present a front-end application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) for a wire based time-projection-chamber (TPC) operating in liquid Argon (LAr). The LAr TPC will be used for long baseline neutrino oscillation experiments. The ASIC must provide a low-noise readout of the signals induced on the TPC wires, digitization of those signals at 2 MSamples/s, compression, buffering and multiplexing. A resolution of better than 1000 rms electrons at 200 pF input capacitance for an input range of 300 fC is required, along with low power and operation in LAr (at 87 K). We include the characterization of a commercial technology for operation in the cryogenic environment and the first experimental results on the analog front end. The results demonstrate that complementary metal-oxide semiconductor transistors have lower noise and much improved dc characteristics at LAr temperature. Finally, we introduce the concept of '1/f equivalent' to model the low-frequency component of the noise spectral density, for use in the input metal-oxide semiconductor field-effect transistor optimization.},
doi = {10.1109/TNS.2011.2127487},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1041510}, journal = {IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science},
issn = {0018-9499},
number = 3,
volume = 58,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Jun 15 00:00:00 EDT 2011},
month = {Wed Jun 15 00:00:00 EDT 2011}
}