A highly integrated trigger and readout system for a silicon mu strip detector installed at the Omega spectrometer at CERN

Author

Beer, A. ; Corre, A. ; Farthouat, P.H. ; French, B. ; Malferrari, L. ; Ryzhov, V. ; Schuler, G. ; Weymann, M. ; Darbo, G. ; Martinengo, P. ; Rossi, L. ; Salvo, C. ; Enz, C. ; Krummenacher, F.

Author_Institution

CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

fYear

1991

fDate

2-9 Nov. 1991

Firstpage

546

Abstract

The readout electronics of a silicon microstrip vertex detector aimed at finding secondary vertices for beauty identification is described. High density and high speed have been achieved, allowing the detector to take part in the trigger. Despite the large number of channels and thanks to the use of application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs), the amount of electronics needed for the readout is rather small, increasing the level of confidence and simplifying the maintenance and the cabling of the system. The use of computer-aided engineering tools allowed a very fast design (1.5 year), which was reliable and well documented.<>

Keywords

nuclear electronics; position sensitive particle detectors; semiconductor counters; silicon; trigger circuits; Omega spectrometer; Si; application-specific integrated circuits; beauty identification; cabling; computer-aided engineering tools; maintenance; microstrip vertex detector; readout electronics; secondary vertices; CMOS process; Detectors; Extrapolation; Feeds; Iron; Position measurement; Silicon; Space technology; Strips; Target tracking;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, 1991., Conference Record of the 1991 IEEE

Conference_Location

Santa Fe, NM, USA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-0513-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NSSMIC.1991.258864

Filename

258864