Signal processing for picosecond resolution timing measurements

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment

Volumn 607, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 387-393

  Genat, Jean Francois ^a   Varner, Gary ^b   Tang, Fukun ^a   Frisch, Henry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

ASIC; Fast timing; Micro channel plate; Photo detectors; Photo multiplier; Picosecond; Sampling; Signal processing; Time of flight

Indexed keywords

ASIC; FAST TIMING; MICRO-CHANNEL PLATE; PICOSECOND; TIME-OF-FLIGHT;

APPLICATION SPECIFIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; DISCRIMINATORS; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES TO APPARATUS; FREQUENCY MULTIPLYING CIRCUITS; IMAGE STORAGE TUBES; NEGATIVE IONS; PHOTODETECTORS; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SIGNAL GENERATORS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TIME MEASUREMENT;

DETECTORS;

EID: 67650729328     PISSN: 01689002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2009.05.193     Document Type: Article

References (31)

1. See, for example, D. Acosta, et al., CDF Collaboration, Nucl. Instr. and Meth. A 518 (2004) 605.
2. Klempt W. Nucl. Instr. and Meth. A 433 (1999) 542
3. Wiza J.L. Nucl. Instr. and Meth. 162 (1979) 587
4. T. Credo, H. Frisch, H. Sanders, R. Schroll, F. Tang, Picosecond time of flight for particle identification at high energy physics colliders, in: Proceedings of the Nuclear Science Symposium, Rome, 2004, p. 586.
5. Inami K., Kishimoto N., Enari Y., Nagamine M., and Ohshima T. Nucl. Instr. and Meth. A 560 (2006) 303
6. Va'vra J., Benitez J., Coleman J., Leith D.W.G., Mazaher G., Ratcliff B., and Schwiening J. Nucl. Instr. and Meth. A 572 (2007) 459
7. See, for example, C.H. Chen, J.F. Gunion, Phys. Rev. D 58 (1998) 075005.
8. CDF Collaboration, A Abulencia, et al. Search for heavy, long-lived neutralinos that decay to photons at CDF II using photon timing, Phys. Rev. D78 (2008) 032015.
9. See, for example 〈http://hepwww.rl.ac.uk/accel/forum/2007/Cosenerswattsapr07.pdf〉.
10. The MANX Project Proposal 〈https://mctf.fnal.gov/meetings/2007-1/04_05/project-narrative-06er86282-6dmanx-v2-w-appendices.pdf/view〉.
11. H. Nicholson, private communication.
12. Porat D.I. IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci. NS-20 (1973) 36
13. Genat J.F. Nucl. Instr. and Meth. A 315 (1992) 411
14. J. Kalisz, Metrologia 41 (2004) 17 〈http://www.iop.org/EJ/abstract/0026-1394/41/1/004〉.
15. An extensive list of references on timing measurements can be found in: A. Mantyniemi, MS Thesis, University of Oulu, 2004; ISBN 951-42-7460-I; ISBN 951-42-7460-X; 〈http://herkules.oulu.fi/isbn951427461X/isbn951427461X.pdf〉.
16. Cova S., et al. Rev. Sci. Instr. 64 1 (1993) 118
17. H. Kim, et al., Electronics developments for fast timing PET detectors, in: Symposium on Radiation and Measurements Applications, Berkeley, CA, USA, June 2-5, 2008.
18. D. Breton, E. Auge, E. Delagnes, J. Parsons, W. Sippach, V. Tocut, The HAMAC rad-hard switched capacitor array, ATLAS note, 2001.
19. E. Delagnes, Y. Degerli, P. Goret, P. Nayman, F. Toussenel, P. Vincent, SAM: a new GHz sampling ASIC for the HESS-II front-end, Cerenkov Workshop, 2005.
20. S. Ritt, R. Dinapoli, U. Hartmann, Application of the DRS chip for fast waveform digitizing, in: Proceedings of TIPP09, Tsukuba, Japan.
21. Varner G., Rudman L.L., and Wong A. Nucl. Instr. and Meth. A 591 (2008) 534
22. J. Milnes, J. Howorth, Photek Ltd., Proc. SPIE 5580 (2005) 730.
23. K. Inami, Timing properties of MCP-PMTs, in: Proceedings of Science, International Workshop on New Photon-Detectors, Kobe University, Japan, June 27-29, 2007.
24. Bondarenko G., Dolgoshein B., et al. Nucl. Phys. B 61B (1998) 347
25. Shannon C.E. Bell Syst. Tech. J. 27 (1948) 379, 623
26. MathWorks, 3 Apple Hill Drive, Natick, MA, USA. The MATLAB source is available from the authors.
27. Photonis/Burle Industries, 1000 New Holland Av, Lancaster PA, 17601.
28. Tektronix INC, PO Box 500, Beaverton, OR 97977.
29. C. Ertley, J. Anderson, K. Byrum, G. Drake, E. May 〈http://www.hep.anl.gov/ertley/windex.html〉.
30. Cleland W.E., and Stern E.G. Nucl. Instr. and Meth. A 338 (1994) 467
31. K.A. Jenkins, A.P. Jose, D.F. Heidel, An on-chip jitter measurement circuit with sub-picosecond resolution, in: Proceedings of the 31st European Solid State Circuits Conference, vol. 12, 2005, pp. 157-160.