This paper presents the design and test results of a radiation tolerant PLL ASIC as part of the optical link ASICs in the Nuclotron-based Ion Collider Facility (NICA) front-end readout electronics. To obtain low DC leakage current and reduce dynamic mismatch, the charge pump uses two unity-gain feedback operational amplifiers to keep the output common mode voltage constant. The LCVCO employs a...
We demonstrate an RF receiver that achieves 25 ppm uncertainty in measuring the amplitude of a 1497 MHz sinosoidal signal in a 0.5 ms integration window. The receiver employs a direct digital sampling architecture. The signal comes from beam intensity monitoring cavities on the beamline of the Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility (CEBAF) at Jefferson Lab. The signal strength,...
Diamond detectors are suitable for accelerator beam monitor owing to the better radiation hardness compared to silicon detectors. But the smaller deposited energy and larger band gap cause the decrease of signals, which brings difficulties to readout system. In this paper, a low noise electronics based on charge sensitive amplifier (CSA) reading out the signal of diamond microstrip detectors...
The Mu2e Cosmic Ray Veto must veto cosmic-ray muons over a large area with an efficiency of 99.99\% in the presence of high background rates. It consists of 5,376 scintillator extrusions with embedded 1.4\,mm wavelength-shifting fibers coupled to $2{\times}2$\,mm$^2$ silicon photomultipliers. A custom readout system consists of: (1) small circuit board, the Counter Mother Board, which...
The TAO (Taishan Antineutrino Observatory) is a ton-level Gadolinium doped liquid scintillator (GdLS) detector located ~30 m far from one of the Taishan reactor cores in China serving the JUNO (Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory) neutrino experiment. The goal of TAO is the measurement of the reactor antineutrino spectrum with very high energy resolution (~ 1.5% at 1 MeV). In order to...
The paper would present the design and test results of a 16Gbps 1:16 deserializer chip fabricated in 55 nm CMOS technology,which is a part of the optical link ASICs in the Nuclotron-based Ion Collider fAсility (NICA) front-end readout electronics.The input equalizer stage is used to compensate for the high frequency loss caused by the transmission line on PCB and the bonding wire.The strength...
The back-streaming white neutrons (Back-n) at China Spallation Neutron Source (CSNS), which has excellent energy spectrum and good time resolution, provides superior conditions for neutron induced light charged particle tracking experiment. To track light charged particles, CSNS is working on a project named Multi-purpose Time Projection Chambers (MTPC) and completed a 1519-channel prototype....
The Projectile Spectator Detector (PSD) is a sampling lead/scintillator forward hadron calorimeter with transverse and longitudinal segmentation, which will be used to measure collision centrality and orientation of the reaction plane in the nucleus-nucleus collisions at the Compressed Baryonic Matter (CBM) experiment at FAIR. The PSD consists out of 44 modules with 10 longitudinal sections in...
The Shunt-LDO regulator has been integrated in the ATLAS and the CMS pixel detector front-end chip to implement the serial powering scheme which both experiments have chosen as the baseline option for the HL-LHC upgrade. The performance of the integrated regulators has been characterized and specific design challenges have been identified which are related to layout parasitics and shallow...
The High Luminosity upgrade of the LHC (HL-LHC) at CERN will provide unprecedented instantaneous luminosity of ~5 x 10$^{34}$cm $^{-2}$s$^{-1}$, leading to an average of 150-200 simultaneous collisions. This high instantaneous luminosity scenario presents a significant challenge for the detectors. The barrel region of the CMS electromagnetic calorimeter (ECAL) will be preserved but will be...
In this talk, a system based on Time and Charge Sensitive Amplifier (TCSA) reading out the signal of pure CsI crystal adopted in Super Tau-Charm Facility (STCF) Electromagnetic Calorimeter (ECAL) is reported. To realize high-resolution gamma detection and electron-hadron discrimination, the readout system needs to meet the demands of low noise and high-precision time resolution. By noise...
An electromagnetic calorimeter (ECAL) based on scintillator and SiPMs is one of the high-granularity calorimetry options developed within the CALICE collaboration for future lepton colliders, e.g. the Circular Electron Positron Collider (CEPC). A dedicated SiPM-readout electronics system was developed for an ECAL prototype with 6720 scintillator strips individually read out by SiPMs. The...
To acquire the feature of Higgs particle, construction of Circular Electron Positron Collider (CEPC) was proposed in recent years. Electromagnetic calorimeter based on scintillator and SiPM (ScECAL) is one of the options of the electromagnetic calorimeter system of CEPC. The ScECAL Electronic prototype was constructed. Special readout electronic system was developed to meet the demands of...
Multi-GEM detectors are widely used for the tracking of charged particles with good spatial resolution at high luminosity, while using only a very low material budget. For the COMPASS experiment at CERN, the third generation of these detectors is currently being constructed, while and the fourth generation is under development.
This talk presents the most recent improvements on the readout...
In this contribution we propose an innovative, full analog, fiber optic sensors (FOS) interrogator which, being fully compatible with the 4-20 mA standard of the Programmable Logic Controller (PLC), enable the integration of the FOS technology in safety framework, such as the Detector Safety System (DSS) of the LHC Experiments. It is composed by a full analog electrical circuitry, capable to...
Data acquisition systems for state of the art imaging based particle identification detectors are expected to handle large numbers of channels, high accuracy timing, and operate under limited spatial and power constraints. In many applications, full waveform digitization is considered necessary to guarantee the required timing resolution and avoiding the undesirable degradation due to time...
The high luminosity upgrade for the Large Hadron Collider at CERN requires a
complete overhaul of the current inner detectors of ATLAS and CMS. These new
detectors will consist of all-silicon tracking detectors. A serial powering
scheme has been chosen in order to cope with the various constraints of the new
detectors. In order to verify this new powering scheme, efforts are ongoing to set...
The LHCb upgrade programme, with increased luminosity, will cause a rise in particle multiplicity and hit occupancy in the LHCb detectors. To mitigate this effect for the Ring-Imaging Cherenkov (RICH) detectors, it is proposed to use photon detector hit time information. The new front-end readout includes a programmable time gate in the FPGA and the expected background reduction using a 6.25...
Pixelated readout for multi-kiloton Liquid Argon (LAr) Time Projection Chambers (TPCs), such as that being deployed for the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE), would enable full 3D-reconstruction of events, in contrast to wire/strip anode readout that is challenged by track disambiguation in 2D track reconstruction. The Q-Pix Consortium, established in 2019, is developing a low-power...
We present the architecture of a new Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) intended to read-out arrays of Silicon Photomultipliers (SiPMs) for low-level light detection down to the single photoelectron. The analog channel is composed of a high speed path with programmable gain and pole-zero filter designed for photon counting. An external fast digitizer can be used for the...
