Design and performances of fast front-end electronics for COMPASS MWPCs

Author

Colantoni, M. ; Denisov, O. ; Ferrero, A. ; Frolov, V. ; Grasso, A. ; Korontchenko, A. ; Lieshenko, V. ; Maggiora, A. ; Maggiora, M. ; Panzieri, D. ; Popov, A. ; Tchalyshev, V.

Author_Institution

Dipt. di Fisica Gen., Torino Univ., Italy

Volume

2

fYear

2001

Firstpage

932

Abstract

In the COMPASS experiment, under construction at CERN, about 23000 channels of MWPCs will be used. The very high rate of the muon and hadron beams, and the consequently high trigger rate, require front-end electronics with a new conceptual design. A new MWPC front-end electronics that fulfills the main COMPASS requirement to have a fast DAQ with a minimum dead-time has been designed and tested. The scheme of the new, very low dead-time front-end electronics will be described; the results of the detector commissioning of the summer 2000 run, using a reduced set-up equipped with the running electronics will be described. Installation of the COMPASS detectors is to start in the spring of 2001, and production running is foreseen for the summer of 2001.

Keywords

multiwire proportional chambers; nuclear electronics; readout electronics; COMPASS; MWPC; dead-time; front-end electronics; Adders; Data acquisition; Detectors; Electronic equipment testing; Magnetic separation; Mesons; Particle beams; Spectroscopy; Structural beams; Wires;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, 2001 IEEE

ISSN

1082-3654

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7324-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NSSMIC.2001.1009708

Filename

1009708