Performance of the ALTRO chip on data acquired on an ALICE TPC prototype

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

Volumn 535, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 500-505

  Mota, Bernardo ^a   Bächler, Joachim ^a   Bramm, Roland ^a   Campagnolo, Roberto ^a   Bosch, Raúl Esteve ^a   De Parga, Antonio Jiménez ^a   Musa, Luciano ^a  

^a CERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

ALICE TPC; ALTRO chip; Ion tail cancellation

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION SPECIFIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; COSMIC RAYS; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA COMPRESSION; GAS CYLINDERS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ALICE TIME PROJECTION CHAMBER (TPC); ALTRO CHIP; FRONT END ELECTRONICS (FEE); ION TAIL CANCELLATION;

MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS;

EID: 9544224150     PISSN: 01689002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-9002(04)01716-4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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