The electronics and data acquisition system for the wire imaging synchrotron radiation detector at the SLC

Author

Rouse, F. ; Briggs, D.D. ; Gomez, J.J. ; Von Zanthier, C. ; Kent, J.

Author_Institution

Linear Accel. Center, Stanford Univ., CA, USA

Volume

37

Issue

3

fYear

1990

fDate

6/1/1990 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1182

Lastpage

1185

Abstract

The Stanford Large Collider (SLC), located at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, collides electrons and positrons produced in the linear accelerator pulse by pulse. The energy of each beam is determined by measuring the angle of deflection of the beam in the SLC extraction lines. Each extraction line consists of two bending magnets that produce synchrotron radiation, and a spectrometer analyzing magnet that deflects the beam. The synchrotron light is detected by using the emission of electrons produced by Compton scattering off Cu-Be wires. The electronics used to detect the ~180 fC of charge on the wire is described. The performance of the system, including the equivalent noise charge, crosstalk stability, and reliability are discussed

Keywords

data acquisition; electron device noise; nuclear electronics; physics computing; position sensitive particle detectors; reliability; Cu-Be wires; SLC; crosstalk; data acquisition system; electronics; equivalent noise charge; reliability; stability; wire imaging synchrotron radiation detector; Crosstalk; Data acquisition; Data mining; Electrons; Energy measurement; Goniometers; Linear accelerators; Magnets; Positrons; Wire;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9499

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/23.57363

Filename

57363