Advanced front end signal processing electronics for ATLAS cathode strip chamber system

Author

Junnarkar, Sachin S. ; Kandasamy, Anand ; Fried, Jack ; O´Connor, Paul ; Polychronakos, V. ; Gratchev, Vadim ; Tcherniatine, V. ; Khodinov, A. ; Maramraju, Sri Harsha ; Srauss, Emanuel

Author_Institution

Brookhaven Nat. Lab., Upton, NY, USA

Volume

2

fYear

2005

fDate

23-29 Oct. 2005

Firstpage

909

Lastpage

913

Abstract

The ATLAS muon spectrometer will employ cathode strip chambers (CSC) to measure high momentum muons in the extreme forward regions. Preamplification of the charge on the strips is performed in the amplifier shaper module I. Amplifier shaper module II performs the analog buffering, digitization of the charge signals from individual cathode strips and multiplexes the data into two fibre optics links at 1 Gbps each. We present the design architecture of the complete front end electronics chain and its performance. We also report on the production and testing status of overall on detector electronics.

Keywords

muon detection; nuclear electronics; particle spectrometers; position sensitive particle detectors; signal processing; ATLAS cathode strip chamber system; ATLAS muon spectrometer; amplifier shaper module I; amplifier shaper module II; analog buffering; charge signal digitization; fibre optics; front end signal processing electronics; high momentum muons; Cathodes; Electronic equipment testing; Mesons; Optical buffering; Optical fiber amplifiers; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Signal processing; Spectroscopy; Strips; Ultraviolet sources;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, 2005 IEEE

ISSN

1095-7863

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9221-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NSSMIC.2005.1596402

Filename

1596402