BES III time-of-flight readout system

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 57, Issue 2 PART 1, 2010, Pages 419-427

  Liu, Shubin ^a   Feng, Changqing ^a   An, Qi ^a   Heng, Yuekun ^b   Sun, Shengsen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Charge measurement; Particle identification; Time measurement; Time of flight

Indexed keywords

ARRIVAL TIME; CHARGE MEASUREMENTS; DIFFERENTIAL SIGNAL; DYNAMIC RANGE; FAST CONTROL; PARTICLE IDENTIFICATION; PARTICLE IDENTIFICATIONS; PC INTERFACES; PHOTO MULTIPLIER TUBE; PULSE HEIGHT; READOUT ELECTRONICS; TIME OF FLIGHT; TIMING RESOLUTIONS; TWISTED-PAIR; VME CRATE;

DETECTORS; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPECTROMETERS; SPECTROMETRY; TIME MEASUREMENT;

READOUT SYSTEMS;

EID: 77951168314     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2009.2034520     Document Type: Conference Paper

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