Space saving and power efficient readout system for cosmic-ray muon radiography

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 448-452

  Uchida, Tomohisa ^a   Tanaka, Hiroyuki K M ^a   Tanaka, Manobu ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b INSTITUTE OF PARTICLE AND NUCLEAR STUDIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Data acquisition systems; FPGAs; Muon detectors

Indexed keywords

COSMIC-RAY MUONS; DATA ACQUISITION SYSTEMS; FPGAS; INTERNAL STRUCTURES; MUON DETECTORS; POWER CONSUMPTION; POWER SYSTEMS; POWER-EFFICIENT; SPACE SAVINGS;

AEROSPACE VEHICLES; ANGULAR DISTRIBUTION; COSMIC RAYS; COSMOLOGY; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS (FPGA); PARTICLE SPECTROMETERS; RADIOGRAPHY; RADIOLOGY; READOUT SYSTEMS; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR SYSTEM; SPACE PROBES; VOLCANOES;

TELEPHONE SYSTEMS;

EID: 64749114324     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2009.2014866     Document Type: Article

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