A front-end electronics card comprising a high gain/high bandwidth amplifier and a fast discriminator for time-of-flight measurements

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1201-1206

  Ciobanu, Mircea ^a   Schüttauf, Andreas ^a   Cordier, Evervard ^b   Herrmann, Norbert ^b   Hildenbrand, Klaus D ^a   Kim, Young Jin ^a   Leifels, Yvonne ^a   Marquardt, Michael ^a   Kiš, Mladen ^a   Koczon, Piotr ^a   Lopez, Xavier ^a   Petrovici, Mihai ^c   Weinert, Joachim ^a   Zhang, Xue Jing ^a  

^a GSI HELMHOLTZZENTRUM FÜR SCHWERIONENFORSCHUNG GMBH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c HORIA HULUBEI NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS AND NUCLEAR ENGINEERING   (Romania)

Author keywords

ASIC; CBM; Fast amplifier discriminator; FOPI; Resistive plate chambers; Time of flight

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION SPECIFIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; BANDWIDTH; DISCRIMINATORS; GAIN CONTROL; READOUT SYSTEMS;

CBM; FOPI; FRONT-END ELECTRONICS CARD; MULTI-STRIP MULTI-GAP RESISTIVE PLATE CHAMBERS (MMRPC); RESISTIVE PLATE CHAMBERS; TIME-OF-FLIGHT (TOF);

ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT;

EID: 34548093182     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2007.903186     Document Type: Conference Paper

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