Title :
Front end electronics for the STAR TPC
Author :
Klein, S.R. ; Barale, P. ; Beuville, E. ; Bieser, F. ; Dao, K. ; Kleinfelder, S. ; Lindenstruth, V. ; Lisa, M.A. ; McParland, C. ; Noggle, T. ; Ritter, H.G. ; Vu, C. ; Wieman, H. ; Aluyshin, A. ; Aluyshin, M.
Author_Institution :
Lawrence Berkeley Lab., CA, USA
fDate :
6/1/1996 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
The Solenoidal Tracker at RHIC (STAR) is a large acceptance detector now being built to study high energy heavy ion collisions. It detects charged particles with a large time projection chamber. The 136,600 TPC pads are instrumented with waveform digitizers, implemented in custom low noise preamplifier/shaper and switched capacitor array/ADCs ICs. The system is highly integrated with all analog functions mounted on small cards that plug into the TPC. Detector mounted readout boards multiplex data from 1152 channels onto a 1.5 Gbit/sec fiber optic link to the data acquisition system
Keywords :
analogue-digital conversion; application specific integrated circuits; detector circuits; nuclear electronics; preamplifiers; time projection chambers; STAR TPC; Solenoidal Tracker at RHIC; TPC pads; custom low noise preamplifier/shaper; data acquisition system; fiber optic link; front end electronics; high energy heavy ion collisions; large acceptance detector; readout boards; switched capacitor array/ADCs ICs; time projection chamber; waveform digitizers; Capacitors; Detectors; Electrons; Instruments; Laboratories; Particle tracking; Power engineering and energy; Preamplifiers; Protons; Synthetic aperture sonar;
Journal_Title :
Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on
