Front-end electronics for the CDF-II time-of-flight system

Author

Chen, C. ; Jones, M. ; Kononenko, W. ; Kroll, J. ; Mayers, G.M. ; Newcomer, F.M. ; Oldeman, R.G.C. ; Usynin, D. ; Van Berg, R.

Author_Institution

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

Volume

50

Issue

6

fYear

2003

Firstpage

2486

Lastpage

2490

Abstract

A time-of-flight (TOF) detector has been added to the CDF-II experiment to provide charged kaon identification primarily for neutral B meson flavor determination. The TOF front-end electronics system has 432 channels and is designed to run at the 7.58 MHz clock rate in CDF. The electronics contributes less than 10 ps to the TOF timing resolution of 120 ps, which is dominated by photon statistics. This paper describes the design and implementation of the electronics as well as the in situ performance.

Keywords

B mesons; flavour model; meson detection; nuclear electronics; photomultipliers; scintillation counters; time of flight spectrometers; 7.58 MHz; CDF-II time-of-flight system; TOF detector; TOF front-end electronics system; TOF timing resolution; charged kaon identification; electronics design; in situ performance; neutral B meson flavor determination; photomultiplier; photon statistics; scintillator; Anodes; Clocks; Detectors; Mesons; Photoelectricity; Preamplifiers; Signal processing; Statistics; Timing; Voltage;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9499

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TNS.2003.820632

Filename

1263932