VXI electronics for EUROGAM clover detectors

Author

Lazarus, I. ; Coleman-Smith, P.J. ; Thornhill, J. ; Bosson, G. ; Karkour, N. ; Richard, A. ; Zojceski, Z. ; Ring, C.

Author_Institution

SERC Daresbury Lab., Warrington, UK

Volume

42

Issue

6

fYear

1995

fDate

12/1/1995 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

2288

Lastpage

2291

Abstract

A single-width D-sized VXI card has been designed and built to fully instrument one of the new Clover detectors designed for experiments with the EUROGAM array. Each Clover detector consists of four individual germanium (Ge) crystals and an escape suppression shield comprising 16 bismuth germanate (BGO) crystals. The Clover electronics card measures energy and timing data to 13-bit accuracy from each Ge crystal for spectroscopy and measures sum energy and timing for the BGO shield. It also records a complete Ge and BGO hit pattern for each event and performs intelligent hardware escape suppression to exploit the segmented nature of the Clover detectors

Keywords

detector circuits; germanium radiation detectors; nuclear electronics; solid scintillation detectors; BGO crystal; Bi₄Ge₃O₁₂; Clover detectors; EUROGAM; Ge; Ge crystal; VXI card; VXI electronics; escape suppression shield; intelligent hardware escape suppression; Bismuth; Crystals; Detectors; Energy measurement; Germanium; Hardware; Instruments; Sensor arrays; Spectroscopy; Timing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9499

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/23.489429

Filename

489429