AFTER, an ASIC for the readout of the large T2K time projection chambers

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1744-1752

  Baron, Pascal ^a   Calvet, Denis ^a   Delagnes, Eric ^a   De La Broise, Xavier ^a   Delbart, Alain ^a   Druillole, Frédéric ^a   Mazzucato, Eduardo ^a   Monmarthe, Estelle ^a   Pierre, François ^a   Zito, Marco ^a  

^a DIF   (France)

Author keywords

CMOS; Front end electronics; Mixed analog digital integrated circuits

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); APPLICATION SPECIFIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; DETECTORS; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ENERGY STORAGE; EXPERIMENTS; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; NEUTRONS; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; PARTICLE DETECTORS; PROTONS; SYNCHROTRONS;

(OTDR) TECHNOLOGY; APPLICATION-SPECIFIC; CHARGE PREAMPLIFIERS; CMOS TECHNOLOGIES; GAS AMPLIFICATION; JAPAN PROTON ACCELERATOR RESEARCH COMPLEX (J PARC); LONG BASE LINE (LBL); LOW NOISE; LOW POWERS; LOW-PASS; MASS PRODUCTION; MICROMEGAS; NEUTRINO BEAMS; NEUTRINO OSCILLATIONS; OFF-AXIS; POLE-ZERO; PROTON SYNCHROTRON (PS); READ-OUT ELECTRONICS; SAMPLING FREQUENCIES; SECOND ORDERS; SWITCHED CAPACITOR (SC); TIME PROJECTION CHAMBER (TPC);

RESEARCH;

EID: 45849096130     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2008.924067     Document Type: Conference Paper

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