MAROC: Multi-Anode ReadOut Chip for MaPMTs

Author

Barrillon, P. ; Blin, S. ; Bouchel, M. ; Caceres, T. ; De La Taille, C. ; Martin, G. ; Puzo, P. ; Seguin-Moreau, N.

Author_Institution

Lab. de l´´Accelerateur Lineaire, Univ. Paris Sud 11

Volume

2

fYear

2006

fDate

Oct. 29 2006-Nov. 1 2006

Firstpage

809

Lastpage

814

Abstract

For the ATLAS luminometer, made of Roman pots, a complete readout ASIC has been designed in 0.35 SiGe technology. It is used to readout 64 channels multi anode photomultipliers and supplies 64 trigger outputs and a multiplexed charge. Since its delivery in November 2005, the MAROC chip has been tested at LAL. Despite a substrate coupling effect which affects the performance when all channels are used in high gain, the chip has shown nice global behavior and it has been used during beam tests at CERN in October 2006.

Keywords

application specific integrated circuits; nuclear electronics; particle detectors; photomultipliers; readout electronics; ATLAS luminometer; CERN; MAROC; MaPMT; SiGe technology; beam testing; multi anode photomultiplier; multi-anode readout chip; readout ASIC; substrate coupling effect; trigger output; Anodes; Application specific integrated circuits; Detectors; Gain; Germanium silicon alloys; Nuclear and plasma sciences; Optical fiber testing; Performance evaluation; Photomultipliers; Silicon germanium;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, 2006. IEEE

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA

ISSN

1095-7863

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0560-2

Electronic_ISBN

1095-7863

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NSSMIC.2006.355974

Filename

4179128