A New TAC-based multichannel front-end electronics for TOF experiments with very high time resolution

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 52, Issue 3 II, 2005, Pages 745-747

  Koch, Karsten ^a   Hardel, H ^a   Schulze, R ^a   Badura, E ^a   Hoffmann, J ^a  

^a Gesellschaft fuer Schwerionenforschung Mbh (GSI)   (Germany)

Author keywords

High precision time measurement; High resolution time measurement; Time of flight experiment; Time amplitude converter; Time amplitude converter ASIC

Indexed keywords

ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERSION; APPLICATION SPECIFIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; DELAY CIRCUITS; ELECTRIC CONVERTERS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS; VOLTAGE DISTRIBUTION MEASUREMENT;

HIGH-PRECISION TIME MEASUREMENT; HIGH-RESOLUTION TIME MEASUREMENT; TIME OF FLIGHT EXPERIMENT; TIME-AMPLITUDE CONVERTER ASIC; TIME-AMPLITUDE CONVERTERS;

ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT;

EID: 23844463882     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2005.850957     Document Type: Conference Paper

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