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Title: The NOvA power distribution system

Journal Article · · Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research. Section A, Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
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  1. California Inst. of Technology (CalTech), Pasadena, CA (United States)
  2. Univ. of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA (United States)
  3. Univ. of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA (United States); Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
  4. Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
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We describe the power distribution systems and grounding schemes built for the near and far detectors of the NOvA long-baseline neutrino experiment. They are used to power the avalanche photodiodes and their thermoelectric coolers, the front-end boards that read out, digitize and time stamp the signals from the avalanche photodiodes, and the data concentrator modules used to receive and format the data from the front-end boards before sending them to a farm of computers used to build the events. Furthermore, the system powers 344,064 readout channels in the far detector and 20,192 channels in the near detector.

Research Organization:
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
Grant/Contract Number:
AC02-07CH11359
OSTI ID:
1463625
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 1548147
Report Number(s):
FERMILAB-PUB-18-316-PPD; arXiv:1807.02665; 1680622; TRN: US1902321
Journal Information:
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research. Section A, Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, Vol. 902, Issue C; ISSN 0168-9002
Publisher:
ElsevierCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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journal January 2016
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journal July 2017
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journal November 2015
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