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The COLUTA ADC ASIC and the ATLAS HL-LHC Liquid Argon Front-End Readout

Journal Article · · Journal of Instrumentation
Abstract

The upgraded High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC) requires a new radiation tolerant ATLAS Liquid Argon (LAr) Calorimeter readout operating at 40 MHz with 16-bit dynamic range. The Front-End Board 2 (FEB2) will provide the front-end readout for the calorimeter, and will interface a series of custom ASICs due to radiation tolerance requirements of the HL-LHC. The COLUTA is a 65 nm CMOS custom 8-channel 15-bit 40 MSPS ADC ASIC developed for this application. This contribution will present performance results of the final prototype of the COLUTA, surpassing specifications at >11.5 ENOB for relevant frequencies, as well as non-linearity and radiation requirements. Preliminary integration results of the front-end readout components will also be described by means of the FEB2 Pre-Prototype, the “Slice Testboard”.

Research Organization:
Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC)
DOE Contract Number:
SC0007890
OSTI ID:
2419760
Journal Information:
Journal of Instrumentation, Journal Name: Journal of Instrumentation Journal Issue: 02 Vol. 18; ISSN 1748-0221
Publisher:
Institute of Physics (IOP)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

References (2)

The ATLAS Experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider journal August 2008
Signal processing considerations for liquid ionization calorimeters in a high rate environment
  • Cleland, W. E.; Stern, E. G.
  • Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, Vol. 338, Issue 2-3 https://doi.org/10.1016/0168-9002(94)91332-3
journal January 1994

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