The RICH Chip-a CMOS integrated circuit for the PHENIX Ring Imaging Cherenkov detector

Author

Wintenberg, A.L. ; Frank, S.S. ; Moscone, C.G. ; Jackson, R.G. ; Jones, J.P. ; Young, G.R.

Author_Institution

Oak Ridge Nat. Lab., TN, USA

Volume

1

fYear

1998

fDate

1998

Firstpage

473

Abstract

A multi-function, eight-channel integrated circuit designated as the RICH Chip has been developed for the PHENIX Ring Imaging Cherenkov detector. The chip is an element in a pipelined data acquisition system and is preceded by a photomultiplier tube and fast preamplifier and followed by an analog memory and ADC. Each channel has an energy measurement circuit consisting of an integrator and variable gain amplifier and a timing circuit consisting of a constant fraction discriminator and time-to-amplitude converter. The chip also contains two four-channel analog summing circuits and various DACs that eliminate the need for any external adjustments. Details of the design are presented

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; Cherenkov counters; analogue-digital conversion; digital-analogue conversion; discriminators; mixed analogue-digital integrated circuits; nuclear electronics; summing circuits; timing circuits; ADC; CMOS integrated circuit; DAC; PHENIX; RICH Chip; analog memory; constant fraction discriminator; energy measurement circuit; four-channel analog summing circuits; integrator; pipelined data acquisition system; preamplifier; time-to-amplitude converter; timing circuit; variable gain amplifier; Analog memory; CMOS integrated circuits; Data acquisition; Detectors; Energy measurement; Gain; Photomultipliers; Preamplifiers; Summing circuits; Timing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Nuclear Science Symposium, 1998. Conference Record. 1998 IEEE

Conference_Location

Toronto, Ont.

ISSN

1082-3654

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5021-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NSSMIC.1998.775185

Filename

775185