An analog memory, time-to-amplitude converter and trigger logic chip for PMT applications

Author

Ekenberg, T. ; Berg, R. Van ; Biman, A. ; Stevenson, R.L.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Phys., Pennsylvania Univ., Philadelphia, PA, USA

Volume

1

fYear

1994

fDate

30 Oct-5 Nov 1994

Firstpage

30

Abstract

The Sudbury Neutrino Observatory is a second generation, real time solar neutrino water Cherenkov detector. The electronics designed for this experiment includes a set of full custom integrated circuits to handle the large amount of data being received from the detector. One of these circuits is a CMOS analog/digital storage array used to temporarily store and identify the charge and event time information from a photomultiplier tube for later analysis. The CMOS chip will be described and several interesting features will be highlighted. Some test results will also be presented

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; Cherenkov counters; cosmic ray neutrinos; detector circuits; mixed analogue-digital integrated circuits; neutrino detection; nuclear electronics; CMOS analog/digital storage array; CMOS chip; PMT; analog memory time-to-amplitude converter; charge information; event time information; full custom integrated circuits; photomultiplier tube; second generation real time solar neutrino water Cherenkov detector; trigger logic chip; Analog memory; Application specific integrated circuits; CMOS analog integrated circuits; CMOS digital integrated circuits; CMOS logic circuits; Detectors; Neutrino sources; Observatories; Photomultipliers; Solar power generation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, 1994., 1994 IEEE Conference Record

Conference_Location

Norfolk, VA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-2544-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NSSMIC.1994.474398

Filename

474398