Front end electronics for the STAR TPC

Author

Klein, S.R. ; Barale, P. ; Beuville, E. ; Bieser, F. ; Dao, K. ; Kleinfelder, S. ; Lindenstruth, V. ; Lisa, M.A. ; McParland, C. ; Noggle, T. ; Ritter, H.G. ; Vu, C. ; Wieman, H. ; Aluyshin, A. ; Aluyshin, M.

Author_Institution

Lawrence Berkeley Lab., CA, USA

Volume

43

Issue

3

fYear

1996

fDate

6/1/1996 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1768

Lastpage

1772

Abstract

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 low 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

Keywords

analogue-digital conversion; application specific integrated circuits; detector circuits; nuclear electronics; preamplifiers; time projection chambers; STAR TPC; Solenoidal Tracker at RHIC; TPC pads; custom low noise preamplifier/shaper; data acquisition system; fiber optic link; front end electronics; high energy heavy ion collisions; large acceptance detector; readout boards; switched capacitor array/ADCs ICs; time projection chamber; waveform digitizers; Capacitors; Detectors; Electrons; Instruments; Laboratories; Particle tracking; Power engineering and energy; Preamplifiers; Protons; Synthetic aperture sonar;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9499

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/23.507219

Filename

507219