Design of the readout electronics for the DAMPE Silicon Tracker detector
Instrumentation and Detectors
2016-12-21 v1 Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Abstract
The Silicon Tracker (STK) is a detector of the DAMPE satellite to measure the incidence direction of high energy cosmic ray. It consists of 6 X-Y double layers of silicon micro-strip detectors with 73,728 readout channels. It's a great challenge to readout the channels and process the huge volume of data in the critical space environment. 1152 Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASIC) and 384 ADCs are adopted to readout the detector channels. The 192 Tracker Front-end Hybrid (TFH) modules and 8 identical Tracker Readout Board (TRB) modules are designed to control and digitalize the front signals. In this paper, the design of the readout electronics for STK and its performance will be presented in detail.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1606.05080,
title = {Design of the readout electronics for the DAMPE Silicon Tracker detector},
author = {Fei Zhang and Wen-Xi Peng and Ke Gong and Di Wu and Yi-Fan Dong and Rui Qiao and Rui-Rui Fan and Jin-Zhou Wang and Huan-Yu Wang and Xin Wu and Daniel La Marra and Philipp Azzarello and Valentina Gallo and Giovanni Ambrosi and Andrea Nardinocchi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1606.05080},
year = {2016}
}
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10 pages, 17 figures