Front-end electronics for the RPCs of the ALICE dimuon trigger

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1176-1181

  Arnaldi, R ^a   Baldit, A ^b   Barret, V ^b   Bastid, N ^b   Blanchard, G ^b   Chiavassa, E ^a   Cortese, P ^c   Crochet, P ^b   Dellacasa, G ^c   Devaux, A ^b   De Marco, N ^a   Dupieux, P ^b   Ferretti, A ^a   Force, P ^b   Forestier, B ^b   Gallio, M ^a   Gemme, R ^a   Grigoryan, S ^b   Guerin, F ^b   Guernane, R ^b   Insa, C ^b   Jouve, F ^b   Manso, F ^b   Mereu, P ^a   Musso, A ^b   Oppedisano, C ^a   Piccotti, A ^a   Poggio, F ^a   Rosnet, P ^b   Royer, L ^b   Saturnini, P ^b   Scomparin, E ^a   Travaglia, G ^a   Vercellin, E ^a   Yermia, F ^a   Yermia, ^a,b,c   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITÉ BLAISE PASCAL   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN PIEDMONT   (Italy)

Author keywords

Application specific integrated circuit (ASIC); Front end electronics; Large hadron collider (LHC); Resistive plate chamber (RFC); Streamer

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION SPECIFIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; DETECTORS; SPECTROMETERS;

FRONT-END ELECTRONICS; LARGE HADRON COLLIDER (LHC); RESISTIVE PLATE CHAMBER (RPC); STREAMER;

ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT;

EID: 27644455894     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2005.852624     Document Type: Article

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