TY - JOUR TI - A PMT-Block test bench AB - The front-end electronics of the ATLAS hadronic calorimeter (Tile Cal) is housed in a unit, called PMT-Block. The PMT-Block is a compact instrument comprising a light mixer, a PMT together with its divider and a 3-in-1 card, which provides shaping, amplification and integration for the signals. This instrument needs to be qualified before being assembled on the detector. A PMT-Block test bench has been developed for this purpose. This test bench is a system which allows fast, albeit accurate enough, measurements of the main properties of a complete PMT-Block. The system, both hardware and software, and the protocol used for the PMT-Blocks characterization are described in detail in this report. The results obtained in the test of about 10 000 PMT-Blocks needed for the instrumentation of the ATLAS (LHC-CERN) hadronic Tile Calorimeter are also reported. AU - "Adragna, P [Dipartimento di Fisica 'E.Fermi', Universita di Pisa and Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Pisa, Largo B. Pontecorvo 3, Pisa 56127 (Italy)]" AU - "Universita degli studi di Siena, via Roma 56, 53100 Siena (Italy)]" AU - "Antonaki, A [Institute of Accelerating Systems and Applications, P.O. Box 17214, Athens 10024 (Greece)]" AU - "National Capodistrian University of Athens, 30 Panepistimiou st., Athens 10679 (Greece)] (and others)" KW - "46 INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY" KW - "AMPLIFICATION" KW - "CERN" KW - "CERN LHC" KW - "COMPUTER CODES" KW - "HADRONS" KW - "SHOWER COUNTERS" KW - "SIGNALS" DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2006.03.045 UR - PB - CY - Netherlands PY - 2006 DA - 2006-08-01 LA - English J2 - [] VL - 564 C1 - C2 - C3 - C4 - C5 - L3 - Journal Name: Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research. Section A, Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment; Journal Volume: 564; Journal Issue: 1; Other Information: DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2006.03.045; PII: S0168-9002(06)00604-8; Copyright (c) 2006 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) ER -