Front end electronics for the STAR TPC

Journal Article · Sat Jun 01 00:00:00 EDT 1996 · IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1109/23.507219· OSTI ID:276497

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

---

1. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab., CA (United States); and others

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 los 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.

• OSTI ID: 276497
• Report Number(s): CONF-951073--
• Journal Information: IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, Journal Name: IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science Journal Issue: 3Pt2 Vol. 43; ISSN 0018-9499; ISSN IETNAE
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

43 PARTICLE ACCELERATORS
44 INSTRUMENTATION
INCLUDING NUCLEAR AND PARTICLE DETECTORS
ANALOG-TO-DIGITAL CONVERTERS
BROOKHAVEN RHIC
CHARGED PARTICLE DETECTION
INTEGRATED CIRCUITS
MICROELECTRONIC CIRCUITS
READOUT SYSTEMS
TIME PROJECTION CHAMBERS