Title :
An amplifier-shaper-discriminator with baseline restoration for the ATLAS transition radiation tracker
Author :
Bevensee, B. ; Newcomer, F.M. ; Van Berg, R. ; Williams, H.H.
Author_Institution :
Pennsylvania Univ., Philadelphia, PA, USA
Abstract :
The ASDBLR is a bipolar integrated circuit that provides eight channels of amplifier, shaper, discriminator and baseline restorer on a 6.17 by 4.78 mm silicon substrate. It is designed for use in the straw-based Transition Radiation Tracker (TRT) of the ATLAS detector at the LHC. Competing requirements for short measurement time (≈8 ns), good double pulse resolution (≈40 ns), low power (<30 mW/ch), and low operational threshold (≈1.5 fC) led to the choice of a largely differential circuit which includes detector tail compensation. A capacitively-coupled baseline restorer eliminates effective threshold shifts that would otherwise occur at the high per-wire hit rates (up to 20 MHz). A full-scale dynamic range of 200 fC and two discriminators with separate threshold adjusts allow the ASDBLR to function both as a tracker and a TR photon detector. Selectable ion-tail compensation makes the circuit compatible with both CF4 and Xe-based gases
Keywords :
amplifiers; detector circuits; discriminators; nuclear electronics; ASDBLR; ATLAS transition radiation tracker; CF4-based gases; LHC; Si substrate; TR photon detector; TRT; Xe-based gases; amplifier-shaper-discriminator; baseline restoration; bipolar integrated circuit; capacitively-coupled baseline restorer; detector tail compensation; differential circuit; double pulse resolution; full-scale dynamic range; high per-wire hit rates; ion-tail compensation; low operational threshold; low power threshold; straw-based Transition Radiation Tracker; Bipolar integrated circuits; Integrated circuit measurements; Large Hadron Collider; Power measurement; Pulse amplifiers; Pulse measurements; Radiation detectors; Silicon; Time measurement; Variable speed drives;
Conference_Titel :
Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference Record, 1995., 1995 IEEE
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-3180-X
DOI :
10.1109/NSSMIC.1995.504243