Front end electronics for the STAR TPC

Author

Klein, S.R. ; Barale, P. ; Beuville, E. ; Bieser, F. ; Dao, K. ; Kleinfelder, S. ; Lindenstruth, V. ; Lisa, M.A. ; McParland, C. ; Noggle, T. ; Ritter, H.G. ; Vu, C. ; Wieman, H. ; Aluyshin, A. ; Aluyshin, M.

Author_Institution

Lawrence Berkeley Lab., CA, USA

Volume

1

fYear

1995

Firstpage

602

Abstract

The Solenoidal Tracker at RHIC (STAR) is a large acceptance detector now being built to study high energy heavy ion collisions. It detects charged particles with a large time projection chamber. The 136,600 TPC pads are instrumented with waveform digitizers, implemented in custom low noise preamplifier/shaper and switched capacitor array/ADCs ICs. The system is highly integrated with all analog functions mounted on small cards that plug into the TPC. Detector mounted readout boards multiplex data from 1152 channels onto a 1.5 Gbit/sec fiber optic link to the data acquisition system

Keywords

analogue-digital conversion; application specific integrated circuits; detector circuits; nuclear electronics; preamplifiers; pulse shaping circuits; time projection chambers; STAR TPC; Solenoidal Tracker at RHIC; analog functions; charged particles; custom low noise preamplifier/shaper; data acquisition system; detector mounted readout board; fiber optic link; front end electronics; high energy heavy ion collisions; large acceptance detector; switched capacitor array/ADC IC; time projection chamber; waveform digitizers; Capacitors; Detectors; Electrons; Instruments; Laboratories; Particle tracking; Physics; Power engineering and energy; Protons; Synthetic aperture sonar;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference Record, 1995., 1995 IEEE

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3180-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NSSMIC.1995.504332

Filename

504332