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GAMMA: A 16-Channel Spectroscopic ASIC for SiPMs Readout With 84-dB Dynamic Range Open
Gain amplitude modulation multichannel ASIC (GAMMA) is a 16-channel application specified integrated circuit (ASIC), designed in 0.35- $\mu \text{m}$ technology to read the charge provided by silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) on a wide ampl…
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VMM3a, an ASIC for tracking detectors Open
The VMM3a is a System on Chip (SoC) custom Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) 1 . It is the production version which will be used as the front ASIC for both Micromegas and sTGC detectors of the ATLAS Muon New Small Wheels upgra…
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Embedded readout electronics R&D for the large PMTs in the JUNO experiment Open
Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) is a next generation liquid scintillator neutrino experiment under construction phase in South China. Thanks to the anti-neutrinos produced by the nearby nuclear power plants, JUNO will be a…
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Diamond Detectors for Timing Measurements in High Energy Physics Open
Timing detectors are a well established part of High Energy Physics experimental instrumentation. The choice of sensors with fast (less than 10 ns) and precise (better than 100 ps) signals is an essential part of the design of a timing det…
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A Generic High Bandwidth Data Acquisition Card for Physics Experiments Open
In high energy physics and nuclear physics experiments particularly the ones based on particle accelerator, the data rate from the detector is usually in the order of Terabytes per second. This high throughput data from detector front-end …
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Front-end readout electronics considerations for Silicon Tracking System and Muon Chamber Open
Silicon Tracking System (STS) and Muon Chamber (MUCH) are components of the Compressed Baryonic Matter (CBM) experiment at FAIR, Germany. STS will be built from 8 detector stations located in the aperture of the magnet. Each station will b…
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A Monolithic 32-Channel Front End and DSP ASIC for Gaseous Detectors Open
Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire is currently undergoing a major upgrade within the A Large Ion Collider Experiment (ALICE) detectors, one of the four main experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) accelerator. The LHC lum…
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Short-Strip ASIC (SSA): A 65nm Silicon-Strip Readout ASIC for the Pixel-Strip (PS) Module of the CMS Outer Tracker Detector Upgrade at HL-LHC Open
The Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment at CERN is foreseen to receive a substantial upgrade of the outer tracker detector and its front-end readout electronics, requiring higher granularity and readout bandwidth to handle the large num…
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“ALTIROC0, a 20 pico-second time resolution ASIC for the ATLAS High Granularity Timing Detector (HGTD)” Open
ALTIROC0 is an 8-channel ASIC prototype designed to readout 1x1 or 2x2 mm^2 50 µm thick Low Gain Avalanche Diodes (LGAD) of the ATLAS High Granularity Timing Detector (HGTD). The targeted combined time resolution of the sensor and the read…
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The VMM3a ASIC Open
The VMM3a is a custom low-noise Application Specific Integrated Circuit. It is intended to be used in the front end readout electronics of both the Micromegas and sTGC detectors of the ATLAS New Small Wheels upgrade project at CERN. It is …
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A FPGA-Based Architecture for Real-Time Cluster Finding in the LHCb Silicon Pixel Detector Open
—This article describes a custom VHDL firmware implementation of a two-dimensional cluster-finder architecture for reconstructing hit positions in the new vertex pixel detector (VELO) that is part of the LHCb Upgrade. This firmware has bee…
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High Detection Rate Fast-Gated CMOS Single-Photon Avalanche Diode Module Open
We present a novel instrument for fast-gated operation of a 50 μm CMOS SPAD (Complementary Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Single-Photon Avalanche Diode), driven by an integrated fast-gated active quenching circuit with transition times faster t…
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Charge-sensitive front-end electronics with operational amplifiers for CdZnTe detectors Open
Cadmium zinc telluride (CdZnTe, CZT) radiation detectors are suitable for a variety of applications, due to their high spatial resolution and spectroscopic energy performance at room temperature. However, state-of-the-art detector systems …
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The Majorana Demonstrator readout electronics system Open
The Majorana Demonstrator comprises two arrays of high-purity germanium detectors constructed to search for neutrinoless double-beta decay in 76 Ge and other physics beyond the Standard Model. Its readout electronics were designed to have …
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Level-1 data driver card of the ATLAS new small wheel upgrade compatible with the phase II 1 MHz readout scheme Open
The Level-1 Data Driver Card (L1DDC) will be designed for the needs of the future upgrades of the innermost stations of the ATLAS end-cap muon spectrometer. The L1DDC is a high speed aggregator board capable of communicating with a large n…
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A New Pulse Pileup Rejection Method Based on Position Shift Identification Open
Pulse pileup events degrade the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of nuclear medicine data. When such events occur in multiplexed detectors, they cause spatial misposition, energy spectrum distortion and degraded timing resolution, which leads t…
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VMM3, an ASIC for Micropattern Detectors Open
The VMM is a custom Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC). It will be used in the front- end readout electronics of both the Micromegas and sTGC detectors of the New Small Wheel upgrade of the ATLAS experiment at CERN. It is being…
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Phase I Upgrade of the Readout System of the Vertex Detector at the LHCb Experiment Open
This article describes the high-speed system designed to meet the challenging requirements for the readout of the new pixel VErtex LOcator (VELO) of the upgraded LHCb experiment. All elements of the electronics readout chain will be renewe…
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Design and Evaluation of the LAr Trigger Digitizer Board in the ATLAS Phase-I Upgrade Open
The Phase-I upgrade of the trigger readout elec- tronics for the ATLAS Liquid Argon (LAr) calorimeters will be installed during the second long shutdown of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in 2019-2020 which will enable enhanced instantaneo…
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The electronics and data acquisition system for the DarkSide-50 veto detectors Open
DarkSide-50 is a detector for dark matter candidates in the form of weakly interacting massive particles. It utilizes a liquid argon time projection chamber for the inner main detector, surrounded by a liquid scintillator veto (LSV) and a …
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Front-end Electronics for the GAPS Tracker Open
The General Antiparticle Spectrometer (GAPS) is an Antarctic balloon-borne mission to indirectly search for dark matter through sensitive observation of cosmic antiparticles. The first flight is planned for late 2021. GAPS is the first exp…
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Performance comparison between signal digitizers and low-cost digital oscilloscopes: spectroscopic, pulse shape discrimination and timing capabilities for nuclear detectors Open
Signal digitizers revolutionized the approach to the electronics readout of\nradiation detectors in Nuclear Physics. These highly specialized pieces of\nequipment are designed to acquire the signals that are characteristic of the\ndetector…
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X–<i>ᵞ</i>-Ray Spectroscopy With a CdTe Pixel Detector and SIRIO Preamplifier at Deep Submicrosecond Signal-Processing Time Open
Advanced scientific and industrial applications based on X- and $\gamma $ -ray spectroscopic imaging need systems able to handle high incoming radiation flux (>1 Mcount/s) and, therefore, requiring processing of radiation detector signals …
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AREUS: A Software Framework for ATLAS Readout Electronics Upgrade Simulation Open
The design of readout electronics for the LAr calorimeters of the ATLAS detector to be operated at the future High-Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) requires a detailed simulation of the full readout chain in order to find optimal solutions for the …
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Design and simulation of a 65 nm Macro-Pixel Readout ASIC (MPA) for the Pixel-Strip (PS) Module of the CMS Outer Tracker Detector at the HL-LHC Open
The MPA is the pixel readout ASIC for the hybrid Pixel-Strip module of the Phase-II CMS Outer Tracker upgrade at the High Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC). It employs a novel technique for identifying high transverse momentum particles and provides…
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First results using the new DLS Xspress4 digital pulse processor with monolithic segmented HPGe detectors on XAS beamlines Open
Diamond Light Source (DLS) I20-Scanning is a high flux X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy (XAS) beamline optimized for challenging samples, operating between 4keV and 20keV. The principal detector used for collecting XAS in fluorescence mode is…
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Readout architecture for the Pixel-Strip module of the CMS Outer Tracker Phase-2 upgrade Open
The Outer Tracker upgrade of the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment at CERN introduces new challenges for the front-end readout electronics. In particular, the capability of identifying particles with high transverse momentum using mod…
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First measurements with the CMS DAQ and Timing Hub prototype-1 Open
The DAQ and Timing Hub is an ATCA hub board designed for the Phase-2 upgrade of the CMS experiment. In addition to providing high-speed Ethernet connectivity to all back-end boards, it forms the bridge between the sub-detector electronics …
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ColdADC_P2: A 16-Channel Cryogenic ADC ASIC for the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment Open
The second and final version of ColdADC, called ColdADC_P2, is presented. ColdADC_P2 is a 16-channel, 12-bit, 2 MS/s digitizer application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) intended for use inside the DUNE Far Detector. ColdADC_P2 contain…
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Design of a high performance Digital data AcquIsition SYstem (DAISY) for innovative nuclear experiments Open
A dedicated digital data acquisition (DAQ) system has been developed for innovative nuclear data measurements, from time-of-flight to irradiation experiments as well as other basic nuclear physics experiments. The DAQ system is based on fa…