White Rabbit Time Synchronization for Radiation Detector Readout Electronics

Hennig, Wolfgang; Hoover, Shawn

doi:10.1109/tns.2021.3085242

Title: White Rabbit Time Synchronization for Radiation Detector Readout Electronics

Journal Article · Wed Jun 02 00:00:00 EDT 2021 · IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1109/tns.2021.3085242· OSTI ID:1804753

Hennig, Wolfgang ^[1]; Hoover, Shawn ^[1]

XIA LLC., Hayward, CA (United States)

As radiation detector arrays in nuclear physics applications become larger and physically more separated, the time synchronization and trigger distribution between many channels of detector readout electronics become more challenging. Clocks and triggers are traditionally distributed through dedicated cabling, but newer methods such as the IEEE 1588 Precision Time Protocol and White Rabbit allow clock synchronization through the exchange of timing messages over Ethernet. Consequently, we report here the use of White Rabbit in a new detector readout module, the Pixie-Net XL. Herein, the White Rabbit core, data capture from multiple digitizing channels, and subsequent pulse processing for pulse height and constant fraction timing are implemented in a Kintex 7 FPGA. The detector data records include White Rabbit time stamps and are transmitted to storage through the White Rabbit core's gigabit Ethernet data path or a slower diagnostic/control link using an embedded Zynq processor. The performance is characterized by time-of-flight style measurements and by time correlation of high energy background events from cosmic showers in detectors separated by longer distances. Software for the Zynq processor can implement "software triggering", for example to limit recording of data to events where a minimum number of channels from multiple modules detect radiation at the same time.

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Research Organization:: XIA LLC., Hayward, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP)

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0017223

OSTI ID:: 1804753

Journal Information:: IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, Vol. 68, Issue 8; ISSN 0018-9499

Publisher:: IEEECopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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