The silicon matrix for the prototype for the Dark Matter Particle Explorer

Author

Rui Rui Fan ; Fei Zhang ; Wen Xi Peng ; Yi Fan Dong ; Ke Gong ; Sheng Yang ; Dong Ya Guo ; Jin Zhou Wang ; Min Gao ; Xiao Hua Liang ; Jia Yu Zhang ; Xing Zhu Cui ; Ya Qing Liu ; Huan Yu Wang

fYear

2013

fDate

Oct. 27 2013-Nov. 2 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

In this paper, a silicon matrix detector is described and the results of the cosmic ray test are given. The silicon matrix is composed by the 180 silicon PIN detectors, which covers an area of 32 * 20cm². The data of whole detectors is read out by the ASIC chips, and suppressed by an FPGA. In the test system, the trigger is given by two plastic scintillators, which are placed above and beneath the silicon matrix. The MIPs energy spectrum is shown in this paper. In further test, a small plastic scintillator is inserted to give a differential cosmic ray counting response.

Keywords

application specific integrated circuits; cosmic ray apparatus; dark matter; field programmable gate arrays; nuclear electronics; p-i-n diodes; readout electronics; silicon radiation detectors; solid scintillation detectors; ASIC chips; FPGA; MIPs energy spectrum; dark matter particle explorer; detector read out; detector trigger; differential cosmic ray counting response; plastic scintillators; silicon PIN detectors; silicon matrix detector; Application specific integrated circuits; Detectors; Field programmable gate arrays; Plastics; Prototypes; Readout electronics; Silicon;

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.2013.6829696

Filename

6829696