Performance of the EUSO-BALLOON Front-End Electronics

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Beurs van Berlage

Beurs van Berlage

Poster Experiments: 2b) Astrophysics and Space Instrumentation

Speaker

Hiroko Miyamoto (LAL/Univ. Paris-SudXI/IN2P3/CNRS)

Description

Here the performance of EUSO-BALLOON front-end electronics with dedicated detector elements will be reported. EUSO-BALLOON is a balloon-borne pathfinder of the space-borne fluorescence detector JEM-EUSO (Extreme Universe Space Observatory on board Japanese Experimental Module) on board the International Space Station. The goal of EUSO-BALOON is to perform as a technological demonstrator of JEM-EUSO, to study the background and the detection of an atmospheric shower in a series of launches starting in 2014. The EUSO-BALLOON focal surface consists of one Photo Detector Module (PDM) while the focal surface of JEM-EUSO will consist of 137 PDMs which corresponding to roughly 5,000 64-channel Multi-Anode Photomultiplier Tubes (MAPMTs). One PDM consists of 9 Elementary Cell units (EC_units). Each EC_unit contains 4 MAPMTs and a set of PCBs used to supply high voltages to the MAPMTs and to read out the output signals. These signals are transmitted to the front-end electronics, the EC-ASIC boards each of which contains 6 SPACIROC ASICs which has been developed for JEM-EUSO. To be operated in a space environment with a limited power budget, and covering a wide dynamic range for extreme energy cosmic ray (>5x10^19 eV) observation, the ASIC is designed to perform single photon counting in a dynamic range of 1 photoelectron (PE) to 300 PEs/pixel/2.5 µs, with double pulse resolution of 30 ns, and low power consumption (<1 mW/ch). During the year 2013, the flight model EC_units and EC_ASIC PCBs were produced and the performance was successfully tested and confirmed.

Primary author

Hiroko Miyamoto (LAL/Univ. Paris-SudXI/IN2P3/CNRS)

Co-authors

Dr Blaksley Carl (Université Paris Diderot Laboratoire Astro Particule et Cosmologie 10 rue A. Domon et L. Duquet 75013 Paris, France) Mr Camille Moretto (LAL/IN2P3/CNRS/Université Paris-Sud 11, Laboratoire de l’Accélérateur Linéaire , Bâtiment 200, 91898 Orsay Cedex, France) Christophe De La Taille (OMEGA (FR)) Mr Julio Arturo Rabanal Reina (LAL/IN2P3/CNRS/Université Paris-Sud 11, Laboratoire de l’Accélérateur Linéaire , Bâtiment 200, 91898 Orsay Cedex, France) Philippe Gorodetzky (College de France) Dr Pierre Barrillon (a LAL/IN2P3/CNRS/Université Paris-Sud 11, Laboratoire de l’Accélérateur Linéaire , Bâtiment 200, 91898 Orsay Cedex, France) Mr Simon Bacholle (Université Paris Diderot Laboratoire Astro Particule et Cosmologie 10 rue A. Domon et L. Duquet 75013 Paris, France) Sylvie Blin (CNRS) Dr Sylvie Dagoret-Campagne (LAL/IN2P3/CNRS/Université Paris-Sud 11, Laboratoire de l’Accélérateur Linéaire , Bâtiment 200, 91898 Orsay Cedex, France)

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