Title :
Performance of the AMT-3 based TDC system at Belle
Author :
Suzuki, Soh Y. ; Higuchi, Takeo ; Tauchi, Kazuya ; Tanaka, Manobu ; Arai, Yasuo ; Itoh, Ryosuke ; Nakao, Mikihiko
Author_Institution :
High Energy Accelerator Res. Organ., Tsukuba
fDate :
Oct. 29 2006-Nov. 1 2006
Abstract :
The KEKB storage ring for a B-factory experiment at KEK, Japan, has been breaking the luminosity record of e+e- colliders. Now the luminosity reaches 1.6 times larger than the designed luminosity. The Belle detector at KEKB uses a traditional readout method based on the trigger and delay: almost all of the digitizer is the same FASTBUS TDC whose intrinsic deadtime is not negligible in a recent high luminosity condition. To accommodate more higher luminosity, we developed new pipelined TDC module and its intrinsic deadtime is smaller than 10% of the current TDC. We report the performance of this TDC module.
Keywords :
readout electronics; trigger circuits; AMT-3 based TDC system; B-factory experiment; Belle detector; FASTBUS TDC; KEK; KEKB storage ring; TDC module; e+e- colliders; readout method; Capacitors; Counting circuits; Data acquisition; Delay; Detectors; Fastbus; Mesons; Nuclear and plasma sciences; Storage rings; 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.2006.356122