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Title: New read-out electronics for ICARUS-T600 liquid argon TPC. Description, simulation and tests of the new front-end and ADC system

Journal Article · · Journal of Instrumentation
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  1. Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
  2. Univ. di Padova and INFN, Padova (Italy)
  3. Univ. di Catania and INFN, Catania (Italy)
  4. Univ. di Milano-Bicocca and INFN Milano-Bicocca, Milano (Italy)
  5. Univ. di Padova and INFN, Padova (Italy); Istituto di Neuroscienze, Padova (Italy)
  6. Univ. di Pavia and INFN, Pavia (Italy)
  7. Univ. Federico II di Napoli and INFN, Napoli (Italy)
  8. Univ. di Pavia and INFN, Pavia (Italy); Univ. of Texas, Arlington, TX (United States)
  9. Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States); Univ. di Padova and INFN, Padova (Italy)
  10. INFN - Lab. Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (Italy)
  11. Univ. di Pavia and INFN, Pavia (Italy); Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
  12. European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva (Switzerland)
  13. Univ. di Padova and INFN, Padova (Italy); European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva (Switzerland)
  14. INFN - Lab. Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (Italy); European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva (Switzerland); GSSI, L'Aquila (Italy)
  15. INFN, Pisa (Italy)
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Here, the ICARUS T600, a liquid argon time projection chamber (LAr-TPC) detector mainly devoted to neutrino physics, underwent a major overhauling at CERN in 2016-2017, which included also a new design of the read-out electronics, in view of its operation in Fermilab on the Short Baseline Neutrino (SBN) beam from 2019. The new more compact electronics showed capability of handling more efficiently the signals also in the intermediate Induction 2 wire plane with a significant increase of signal to noise (S/N), allowing for charge measurement also in this view. The new front-end and the analog to digital conversion (ADC) system are presented together with the results of the tests on 50 liters liquid argon TPC performed at CERN with cosmic rays.

Research Organization:
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
Contributing Organization:
The ICARUS/NP01 collaboration
Grant/Contract Number:
AC02-07CH11359
OSTI ID:
1487139
Report Number(s):
arXiv:1805.03931; FERMILAB-PUB-18-211-ND; 1672528
Journal Information:
Journal of Instrumentation, Vol. 13, Issue 12; ISSN 1748-0221
Publisher:
Institute of Physics (IOP)Copyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Citation Metrics:
Cited by: 9 works
Citation information provided by
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Cited By (3)

Atmospheric Neutrino Search in the ICARUS T600 Detector journal January 2019
The ICARUS Experiment journal January 2019
The ICARUS experiment conference December 2003

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