9–15 Jun 2018
Woodlands Conference Center
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FPGA Based Pico-second Time Measurement System for a DIRC-like TOF Detector

15 Jun 2018, 11:30
20m
Woodlands Conference Center

Woodlands Conference Center

159 Visitor Center Dr, Williamsburg, VA 23185
Oral presentation Front End Fast Detectors 2

Speaker

Mr Qiang Cao (Department of Modern Physics,University of Science and Technology of China)

Description

A prototype of DIRC-like Time-of-Flight detector (DTOF), including a pico-second time measurement electronics, is developed and tested preliminarily. The basic structure of DTOF is composed of a fused silica radiator connected to fast micro-channel plate PMTs (MCP-PMT), and readout by a dedicated FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) based front-end electronics. The full electronics chain consists of a programmable differential amplifier, a dual-threshold differential discriminator, and a timestamp Time-to-Digital convertor. By splitting a MCP-PMT output signal into two identical electronics chains, the coincidence time resolution (CTR) of pure electronics was measured as 5.6 ps. By the beam test in H4 (150GeV/c, Muon) at CERN, the intrinsic CTR of the whole detector prototype reaches 15.0 ps without using time-amplitude correction. The test results demonstrate that the FPGA based front-end electronics could achieve an excellent time performance for TOF detectors. It is very compact, cost effective with a high multi-channel capacity and short measurement dead time, which is very suitable for practical applications of large-scale high performance TOF detectors in particle physics spectrometer.

Minioral Yes
Description Wilkinson ADC_FPGA
Speaker Qiang Cao
Institute USTC
Country China

Primary authors

Mr Qiang Cao (Department of Modern Physics,University of Science and Technology of China) Dr Xin Li (Department of Modern Physics, University of Science and Technology of China)

Co-authors

Mr Liwei Wang (Department of Modern Physics, University of Science and Technology of China) Mr Jie Kuang (Department of Modern Physics, University of Science and Technology of China) Prof. Yonggang Wang (Department of Modern Physics, University of Science and Technology of China) Prof. Cheng Li (Department of Modern Physics, University of Science and Technology of China)

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