Triggerless charge measurement system for fast characterization with avalanche photodiodes and photomultipliers



Título del documento: Triggerless charge measurement system for fast characterization with avalanche photodiodes and photomultipliers
Revista: Revista mexicana de física
Base de datos: PERIÓDICA
Número de sistema: 000453888
ISSN: 0035-001X
Autores: 1
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Instituciones: 1Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Facultad de Ciencias Físico Matemáticas, Puebla. México
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Periodo: Jul-Ago
Volumen: 66
Número: 4
Paginación: 475-478
País: México
Idioma: Inglés
Tipo de documento: Artículo
Enfoque: Analítico, teórico
Resumen en inglés Particle detectors based on the response of sensitive materials (plastic scintillator, saturated gas, etc.) usually need characterization and test procedures before final installation. Cosmic ray particles are normally used to perform those preliminary tests which include a detailed inspection of the readout electronics and the acquisition of the charge distribution of cosmic ray detection. The Data Processing Interface we propose is implemented in an field-programmable gate arrays (ALTERA family), and is designed to acquire digitized signals from light sensors, of which photomultipliers and avalanche photodiodes are the most common ones. The architecture is based on a medium density field-programmable gate array that continuously reads the data coming from a 10 bit, 40 MHz analog-to-digital converter. Input data is stored in a dual port memory designed to search for valid pulses and compress them by removing data below a programmable voltage threshold. The interface can produce two types of data packets, non-zero and empty packets. Data in non-zero packets is compressed with a lossless technique and marked with a start of data, a time stamp, valid data and data size information for reconstruction purposes. Empty events are generated when the maximum waiting time for a valid pulse is exceeded and information is added to preserve time continuity
Disciplinas: Física y astronomía
Palabras clave: Física,
Detectores de partículas,
Circuito electrónico análogo,
Procesamiento de datos
Keyword: Physics,
Particle detectors,
Analogue circuit electronic,
Data processing
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