Front end electronics for the STAR TPC

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

OSTI ID:195698

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

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The Solenoidal Tracker at RHIC (STAR) is a large acceptance detector now being built to study high energy heavy ion collisions. It detects charged particles with a large time projection chamber. The 136,600 TPC pads are instrumented with waveform digitizers, 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 1,152 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: 195698
• Report Number(s): LBL--37904; CONF-951073--19; ON: DE96004744
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

43 PARTICLE ACCELERATORS
44 INSTRUMENTATION
INCLUDING NUCLEAR AND PARTICLE DETECTORS
ANALOG SYSTEMS
ANALOG-TO-DIGITAL CONVERTERS
BROOKHAVEN RHIC
CHARGED PARTICLE DETECTION
DESIGN
DIGITAL SYSTEMS
ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT
PULSE SHAPERS
READOUT SYSTEMS
TIME PROJECTION CHAMBERS