Front end electronics and trigger system for the KARMEN neutrino experiment

Author

Gemmeke, H. ; Husson, L. ; Maschuw, R. ; Plischke, P. ; Wochele, J. ; Zeitnitz, B. ; Deimling, B. ; Fromhein, O. ; Heep, W. ; Hellmann, G. ; Karbstein, W.

Author_Institution

Kernforschungszentrum Karlsruhe, West Germany

Volume

36

Issue

1

fYear

1989

fDate

2/1/1989 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

718

Lastpage

722

Abstract

KARMEN is a 56-t liquid scintillation calorimeter for neutrino experiments using beam-dump neutrinos from the spallation neutron source ISIS of the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. The central detector is surrounded by two layers of antidetectors to define the fiducial volume for v reactions. The architecture of the electronics system of the KARMEN detector is described. The readout of the position-sensitive calorimeter is controlled by a trigger processor that analyzes the sum energy and multiplicity of the 512 central detector modules. Zero suppression during the ADC (analog/digital converter) scan facilitates a fast readout. A sophisticated, high degree of multiplexing leads to an economical system

Keywords

analogue-digital conversion; calorimeters; nuclear electronics; trigger circuits; ADC; KARMEN detector; electronics; position-sensitive calorimeter; readout; trigger processor; trigger system; Event detection; Intersymbol interference; Laboratories; Light scattering; Mesons; Neutrino sources; Neutrons; Particle scattering; Solid scintillation detectors; Steel;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9499

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/23.34534

Filename

34534