CSPAD upgrades at LCLS

Author

Herrmann, S. ; Blaj, G. ; Carini, G.A. ; Dragone, A. ; Freytag, D. ; Haller, G. ; Hart, Phil ; Herbst, R. ; Kenney, C. ; Manger, L. ; Nelson, Scott ; Osier, S. ; Pines, J. ; Sikorski, Michael ; Song, Seunghyun ; Tomada, A. ; Weaver, Mark

Author_Institution

SLAC Nat. Accel. Lab., Menlo Park, CA, USA

fYear

2013

fDate

Oct. 27 2013-Nov. 2 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

The Cornell-SLAC Pixel Array Detector (CSPAD) is the workhorse for LCLS hard x-rays experiments. After deploying three 2.3Mpixel and many 140kpixel cameras, SLAC detector group has focused in improving the detector performances and optimizing its use in experiments. This was achieved first by improving thermo-mechanical assembly, PCB level electronics and firmware. The next step consisted in upgrading the ASIC. Continuous improvements in GUI and DAQ completed the evolution of the CSPAD systems, up to the current version V1.6, and made these cameras easy to use and optimize for a given experiment. More than 85% of the hard x-ray experiments scheduled in run 7 used one or multiple CSPAD cameras.

Keywords

application specific integrated circuits; firmware; graphical user interfaces; nuclear electronics; position sensitive particle detectors; ASIC; CSPAD system; CSPAD upgrades; Cornell-SLAC pixel array detector; DAQ; GUI; LCLS hard X-rays experiments; PCB level electronics; SLAC detector group; firmware; multiple CSPAD cameras; thermomechanical assembly; Application specific integrated circuits; Arrays; Cameras; Detectors; Linearity; Photonics; X-rays;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference (NSS/MIC), 2013 IEEE

Conference_Location

Seoul

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-0533-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NSSMIC.2013.6829695

Filename

6829695