The STAR TPC front end electronics

Conference · Sun Oct 01 04:00:00 EDT 1995

OSTI ID:192527

Klein, S R; Barale, P; Beuville, E ^[1]

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1. and others

The Solenoidal Tracker at RHIC (STAR) uses a large time projection chamber. Each of the 136,600 pads is instrumented with a waveform digitizer, implemented in custom low noise preamplifier/shaper and switched capacitor array/ADCs ICs. The system is highly integrated with all analog functions mounted on small cards that plug into the TPC. Detector mounted readout boards multiplex data from 1152 channels onto a 1.5 Gbit/sec fiber optic link to the data acquisition system.

• Research Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Lab., CA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: AC03-76SF00098
• OSTI ID: 192527
• Report Number(s): LBL--37706; CONF-9509290--1; ON: DE96004745
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

44 INSTRUMENTATION
INCLUDING NUCLEAR AND PARTICLE DETECTORS
BROOKHAVEN RHIC
COMPUTERIZED CONTROL SYSTEMS
DATA ACQUISITION SYSTEMS
DESIGN
DIGITIZERS
ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT
PROJECTION SPARK CHAMBERS
SHOWER COUNTERS
SOLENOIDS