High-speed charge-to-time converter ASIC for the Super-Kamiokande detector

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

Volumn 610, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 710-717

  Nishino, H ^a   Awai, K ^a   Hayato, Y ^a   Nakayama, S ^a   Okumura, K ^a   Shiozawa, M ^a   Takeda, A ^a   Ishikawa, K ^b   Minegishi, A ^b   Arai, Y ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b Iwatsu Test Instruments Corporation   (Japan)

^c INSTITUTE OF PARTICLE AND NUCLEAR STUDIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Charge to time converter; high speed; Low noise; Photomultiplier tube readout; Self trigger; Super Kamiokande

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT TEMPERATURES; ANALOG PERFORMANCE; ANALOG SIGNAL PROCESSING; CHANNEL ISOLATION; CHARGE MEASUREMENTS; CHARGE RESOLUTION; DYNAMIC RANGE; EFFICIENT DETECTION; EXTERNAL INPUT; FOUR-ORDER; HIGH RATE; HIGH-SPEED; INTEGRATED CHARGE; LOW NOISE; NEW APPLICATIONS; PASSIVE ELEMENTS; PHOTO MULTIPLIER TUBE; RATE DEPENDENCE; RESTORATION CIRCUITS; SHORT CYCLE; SINGLE PHOTOELECTRONS; TEST RESULTS; THREE CHANNEL; TIME TO DIGITAL CONVERTERS; TIMING RESOLUTIONS; TIMING SIGNALS; WAVE FORMS;

ANALOG CIRCUITS; APPLICATION SPECIFIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; DIGITAL CIRCUITS; DISCRIMINATORS; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES TO APPARATUS; LOW PASS FILTERS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEED; TIME MEASUREMENT;

PHOTOMULTIPLIERS;

EID: 72249083914     PISSN: 01689002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2009.09.026     Document Type: Article

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