Data acquisition and readout system for the LUX dark matter experiment

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

Volumn 668, Issue , 2012, Pages 1-8

  Akerib, D S ^b   Bai, X ^f   Bedikian, S ⁿ   Bernard, E ⁿ   Bernstein, A ^e   Bradley, A ^b   Cahn, S B ⁿ   Carmona Benitez, M C ^b   Carr, D ^e   Chapman, J J ^a   Clark, K ^b   Classen, T ⁱ   Coffey, T ^b   Curioni, A ⁿ   Dazeley, S ^e   De Viveiros, L ^a   Dragowsky, M ^b   Druszkiewicz, E ^l   Faham, C H ^a   Fiorucci, S ^a   Gaitskell, R J ^a   Gibson, K R ^b   Hall, C ^k   Hanhardt, M ^f   Holbrook, B ⁱ   Ihm, M ^h   Jacobsen, R G ^h   Kastens, L ⁿ   Kazkaz, K ^e   Lander, R ⁱ   Larsen, N ⁿ   Lee, C ^b   Leonard, D ^k   Lesko, K ^d   Lyashenko, A ⁿ   Malling, D C ^a   Mannino, R ^g   McKinsey, D N ⁿ   Mei, D ^m   Mock, J ⁱ   Morii, M ^c   Nelson, H ^j   Nikkel, J A ⁿ   Pangilinan, M ^a   Phelps, P ^b   Shutt, T ^b   Skulski, W ^l   Sorensen, P ^e   Spaans, J ^m   Stiegler, T ^g   Svoboda, R ⁱ   Sweany, M ⁱ   Szydagis, M ⁱ   Thomson, J ⁱ   Tripathi, M ⁱ   Verbus, J R ^a   Walsh, N ⁱ   Webb, R ^g   White, J T ^g   Wlasenko, M ^c   Wolfs, F L H ^l   Woods, M ⁱ   Zhang, C ^m   more..

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^f SOUTH DAKOTA SCHOOL OF MINES AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^g TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^k Bldg 142   (United States)

^l UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^m UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA   (United States)

ⁿ Yale University   (United States)

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Author keywords

Dark matter detectors; Data acquisition; Liquid xenon

Indexed keywords

ANALOG ELECTRONICS; DARK MATTER; DARK MATTER DETECTORS; DARK MATTER PARTICLES; DATA ACQUISITION SYSTEM; DEADTIME; DIGITIZERS; DYNAMIC RANGE; EVENT ACQUISITION; HIGH RATE; LIQUID XENON; LOW THRESHOLDS; MAXIMUM SENSITIVITY; NUCLEAR RECOIL; RADIOACTIVE SOURCES; TIME PROJECTION CHAMBERS; TRIGGER AND DATA ACQUISITION;

DATA ACQUISITION; EXPERIMENTS; FIRMWARE; GALAXIES; RADIOACTIVITY; READOUT SYSTEMS;

SEARCH ENGINES;

EID: 83755174693     PISSN: 01689002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2011.11.063     Document Type: Article

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