Development of New Data Acquisition Electronics for the Large Water Cherenkov Detector

Author

Nishino, H. ; Awai, K. ; Hayato, Y. ; Kaneyuki, K. ; Okumura, K. ; Shiozawa, M. ; Takeda, A. ; Arai, Y. ; Ishikawa, K. ; Minegishi, A.

Author_Institution

Inst. for Cosmic Ray Res., Tokyo Univ., Chiba

Volume

1

fYear

2006

fDate

Oct. 29 2006-Nov. 1 2006

Firstpage

124

Lastpage

127

Abstract

To improve the sensitivity of the Super-Kamiokande detector for elementary particle and astroparticle physics, new data acquisition electronics are under development. For a new front-end electronics development, charge-to-time converter (QTC) has been developed as a custom application specified integrated circuit (ASIC). To record all the data continuously to search for much fainter events, the new front-end electronics will be faster and dead-time less and also improve the quality of data. The design of the front-end electronics and the QTC chip and their performances are shown.

Keywords

Cherenkov counters; application specific integrated circuits; data acquisition; ASIC; Super-Kamiokande detector; application specified integrated circuit; astroparticle physics; charge-to-time converter; data acquisition electronics; elementary particle physics; front-end electronics; large water Cherenkov detector; Analog-digital conversion; Application specific integrated circuits; Charge carrier processes; Data acquisition; Delay; Detectors; Dynamic range; Event detection; Neutrino sources; Timing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, 2006. IEEE

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA

ISSN

1095-7863

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0560-2

Electronic_ISBN

1095-7863

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NSSMIC.2006.356121

Filename

4178960