Design and performance of the readout electronics chain of the Delphi Forward Ring Imaging Cherenkov Detector

Conference · Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 EDT 1992 · IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers); (United States)

OSTI ID:6703353

Dam, P; Nielsen, B S ^[1]; Formenti, F; McCulloch, L; Tarle, J C ^[2]; Hallgren, A ^[3]; Isenhower, D ^[4]; Kostarakis, P; Loukas, D; Xyroutsikos, S ^[5]

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1. Niels Bohr Inst., Copenhagen (Denmark)
2. European Organization for Nuclear Research, Geneva (Switzerland)
3. Uppsala Univ. (Sweden)
4. Abilene Christian Univ., TX (United States)
5. NRC Demokritos, Athens (Greece)

In this paper the Front End Readout electronics chain of the Forward Ring Imaging CHerenkov (FRICH) Detector used at the Delphi experiment of the Large Electron Positron (LEP) collider is presented. The system incorporates a wide band low noise preamplifier, mounted in the proximity of the MultiWire Proportional Chamber, an Amplifying-Discriminating-Multiple-xing FASTBUS unit for further signal amplification, discrimination and channel reduction and a LEP Time Digitizer FASTBUS unit for time digitization. The paper gives a general view of the detector and its electronics with particular emphasis on the novel characteristics and capabilities of the system.

• OSTI ID: 6703353
• Report Number(s): CONF-911106-; CODEN: IETNAE
• Journal Information: IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers); (United States), Vol. 39:5; Conference: 1991 Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) nuclear science symposium and medical imaging conference, Santa Fe, NM (United States), 2-9 Nov 1991; ISSN 0018-9499
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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