A new front-end electronics chain for timing RPCs

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference

Volumn 2, Issue , 2000, Pages

  Blanco, A ^a,b   Carolino, N ^a   Fonte, P ^a,c   Gobbi, A ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

^c POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^d GSI HELMHOLTZZENTRUM FÜR SCHWERIONENFORSCHUNG GMBH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERSION; CALCULATIONS; GAS DETECTORS; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT LAYOUT; LINEAR INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; READOUT SYSTEMS;

FRONT-END ELECTRONICS; GAS AVALANCHE PROCESS; RESISTIVE PLATE CHAMBER;

MONOLITHIC MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EID: 0034593777     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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