VXI electronics for EUROGAM clover detectors

Author

Lazarus, I. ; Coleman-Smith, P.J. ; Thornhill, J. ; Bosson, G. ; Karkour, N. ; Richard, A. ; Zojceski, Z. ; Ring, C.

Author_Institution

SERC Daresbury Lab., Warrington, UK

Volume

2

fYear

1994

fDate

30 Oct-5 Nov 1994

Firstpage

581

Abstract

A single width D sized VXI card has been designed and built to fully instrument one of the new Clover detectors designed for experiments with the EUROGAM array. Each Clover detector consists of 4 individual germanium (Ge) crystals and an escape suppression shield comprising 16 bismuth germanate (BGO) crystals. The Clover electronics card measures energy and timing data to 13 bit accuracy from each Ge crystal for spectroscopy and measures sum energy and timing for the BGO shield. It also records a complete Ge and BGO hit pattern for each event and performs intelligent hardware escape suppression to exploit the segmented nature of the Clover detectors

Keywords

detector circuits; germanium radiation detectors; nuclear electronics; programmable logic devices; solid scintillation detectors; Bi₄Ge₃O₁₂; Clover detector; EUROGAM array; Ge; VXI card; energy; intelligent hardware escape suppression; sum energy; timing; Bismuth; Crystals; Detectors; Energy measurement; Germanium; Hardware; Instruments; Sensor arrays; Spectroscopy; Timing;

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.1994.474538

Filename

474538