Title :
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
fDate :
Oct. 29 2006-Nov. 1 2006
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;
Conference_Titel :
Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, 2006. IEEE
Conference_Location :
San Diego, CA
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-0560-2
Electronic_ISBN :
1095-7863
DOI :
10.1109/NSSMIC.2006.356121
