The Cryogenic Dark Matter Search test stand warm electronics card

Author

Hansen, Sten ; DeJongh, Fritz ; Hall, Jeter ; Hines, Bruce A. ; Huber, Martin E. ; Kiper, Terry ; Mandic, Vuk ; Rau, Wolfgang ; Saab, Tarek ; Seitz, Dennis ; Sundqvist, Kyle

Author_Institution

Fermi Nat. Lab., Batavia, IL, USA

fYear

2010

fDate

Oct. 30 2010-Nov. 6 2010

Firstpage

1392

Lastpage

1395

Abstract

A card which does the signal processing for four SQUID amplifiers and two charge sensitive channels is described. The card performs the same functions as is presently done with two custom 9U × 280 mm Eurocard modules, a commercial multichannel VME digitizer, a PCI to GPIB interface, a PCI to VME interface and a custom built linear power supply. By integrating these functions onto a single card and using the power over Ethernet standard, the infrastructure requirements for instrumenting a Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (CDMS) detector test stand are significantly reduced.

Keywords

cryogenics; dark matter; germanium radiation detectors; transition radiation detectors; CDMS detector; Eurocard modules; GPIB interface; PCI interface; SQUID amplifiers; VME interface; charge sensitive channels; cryogenic dark matter search; ethernet standard; linear power supply; multichannel VME digitizer; signal processing; warm electronics card; Detectors; Noise; Phonons; Power supplies; Power transformers; Resonant frequency; SQUIDs;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record (NSS/MIC), 2010 IEEE

Conference_Location

Knoxville, TN

ISSN

1095-7863

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-9106-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NSSMIC.2010.5874000

Filename

5874000