Design and production of a new surface mount charge-integrating amplifier for CDF

Author

Nelson, C. ; Drake, G.

Author_Institution

Fermi Nat. Accel. Lab., Batavia, IL, USA

fYear

1991

fDate

2-9 Nov. 1991

Firstpage

653

Abstract

The authors present their experiences in designing and producing 26000 new charge-integration amplifiers for the Collision Detector Facility (CDF), using surface-mount components. The new amplifiers were needed to instrument 920 new 24-channel CDF RABBIT boards, which are replacing an older design rendered obsolete by increases in the collision rate. Important design considerations were frequency response, physical size, and cost. Compared to the standard cascode, this amplifier has better power supply rejection, higher gain, higher bandwidth, and reasonably good noise figures. Higher than expected amplifier reliability, resulting in an easier checkout task, was an unexpected benefit.<>

Keywords

amplifiers; nuclear electronics; semiconductor counters; surface mount technology; CDF; CDF RABBIT boards; Collision Detector Facility; bandwidth; checkout task; collision rate; cost; frequency response; gain; noise figures; physical size; power supply rejection; reliability; surface mount charge-integrating amplifier; Bandwidth; Costs; Detectors; Frequency response; High power amplifiers; Instruments; Noise figure; Power supplies; Production; Rabbits;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, 1991., Conference Record of the 1991 IEEE

Conference_Location

Santa Fe, NM, USA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-0513-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NSSMIC.1991.259019

Filename

259019