Development of new kind of GRPC for a semi-digital hadronic calorimeter

Author

Kieffer, R. ; Laktineh, I.B. ; Lumb, N. ; Bedjidian, M. ; Donckt, M.V. ; Han, R. ; Mirabito, L.

Author_Institution

IPN Lyon, Lyon, France

fYear

2010

fDate

Oct. 30 2010-Nov. 6 2010

Firstpage

1468

Lastpage

1471

Abstract

A new concept of high granularity hadronic calorimeter using thin Glass Resistive Plate Chambers (GRPCs) as sensitive medium with embedded semi-digital readout electronics is under development within the CALICE collaboration. CALICE calorimeters are intended to be used in the future linear collider experiments. To validate this new concept a prototype of 1 m is being conceived. Several GRPCs as large as 1 m were built with a new design, reducing the dead zones and improving the gas distribution system. The GRPCs were tested with an electronics board of the same size. A readout board containing 144 64-channel ASICs was conceived and built for this purpose.

Keywords

application specific integrated circuits; nuclear electronics; particle calorimetry; position sensitive particle detectors; readout electronics; semiconductor counters; ASICs; CALICE collaboration; GRPC; Glass Resistive Plate Chambers; electronics board; gas distribution system; linear collider experiments; readout board; semidigital hadronic calorimeter; semidigital readout electronics; Detectors; Glass; Printing; Prototypes; Readout electronics; Software; RPC; calorimeter;

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.2010.5874016

Filename

5874016