The TOF-ACC flight electronics for the fast trigger and time of flight of the AMS-02 cosmic ray spectrometer

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

Volumn 707, Issue , 2013, Pages 99-113

  Basili, A ^e   Bindi, V ^c   Casadei, D ^f   Castellini, G ^a,d   Contin, A ^a,b   Kounine, A ^d   Lolli, M ^a   Palmonari, F ^a,b   Quadrani, L ^a,b  

^a INFN SEZIONE DI BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^d CNR   (Italy)

^e MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES AND ARTS NORTHWESTERN SWITZERLAND   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Electronics; FPGA; HV; Space; TOF

Indexed keywords

DESIGN CONCEPT; ENERGY REGIONS; EXTREME CONDITIONS; HIGH PRECISION; HUMAN INTERVENTION; HV; INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATIONS; SPACE; SPACE QUALIFICATION; TIME OF FLIGHT; TOF;

COSMIC RAYS; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; EXPERIMENTS; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS (FPGA); TELLURIUM COMPOUNDS;

DETECTORS;

EID: 84873880929     PISSN: 01689002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2012.12.089     Document Type: Article

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