Hardware overview of the EUROGAM data acquisition system

Author

Alexander, J. ; Beck, F.A. ; Ender, C. ; Lazarus, I. ; McPherson, G.M. ; Owen, E.C.G. ; Pouxe, J. ; Richard, A. ; Ring, C.

Author_Institution

Daresbury Lab., Warrington, UK

fYear

1991

fDate

2-9 Nov. 1991

Firstpage

783

Abstract

EUROGAM is an Anglo/French gamma ray detector which will alternate between the tandem Van der Graaf accelerator at Daresbury and the Vivitron at Strasbourg. Because of the very sensitive nature of the electronics for germanium gamma ray detectors, VXIbus (VMEbus extensions for instrumentation) was chosen as the basis for data acquisition. A major program of development, shared between the British and French participants, is now in its full stages for operation in early 1992. Commissioning tests carried out thus far on the readout electronics for EUROGAM having demonstrated the suitability of VXIbus as a vehicle for housing very dense, high-precision, multichannel spectroscopy amplifiers and analog-to-digital converters for nuclear physics applications. The hardware configuration (Phase 1) is described in detail.<>

Keywords

amplifiers; analogue-digital conversion; data acquisition; gamma-ray detection and measurement; nuclear electronics; peripheral interfaces; physics computing; Anglo/French gamma ray detector; Daresbury; EUROGAM data acquisition system; Phase 1; Strasbourg; VMEbus extensions; VXIbus; Vivitron; analog-to-digital converters; electronics; hardware configuration; high-precision; instrumentation; multichannel spectroscopy amplifiers; nuclear physics applications; tandem Van der Graaf accelerator; Analog-digital conversion; Data acquisition; Electronic equipment testing; Gamma ray detectors; Germanium; Hardware; Instruments; Readout electronics; Spectroscopy; Vehicles;

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.1991.259048

Filename

259048