The MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR Readout Electronics System
Abstract
The MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR comprises two arrays of high-purity germanium detectors constructed to search for neutrinoless double-beta decay in 76-Ge and other physics beyond the Standard Model. Its readout electronics were designed to have low electronic noise, and radioactive backgrounds were minimized by using low-mass components and low-radioactivity materials near the detectors. This paper provides a description of all components of the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR readout electronics, spanning the front-end electronics and internal cabling, back-end electronics, digitizer, and power supplies, along with the grounding scheme. The spectroscopic performance achieved with these readout electronics is also demonstrated.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2111.09351,
title = {The MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR Readout Electronics System},
author = {N. Abgrall and M. Amman and I. J. Arnquist and F. T. Avignone and A. S. Barabash and C. J. Barton and P. J. Barton and F. E. Bertrand and K. H. Bhimani and B. Bos and A. W. Bradley and T. H. Burritt and M. Busch and M. Buuck and T. S. Caldwell and Y-D. Chan and C. D. Christofferson and P. -H. Chu and M. L. Clark and R. J. Cooper and C. Cuesta and J. A. Detwiler and A. Drobizhev and D. W. Edwins and Yu. Efremenko and H. Ejiri and S. R. Elliott and T. Gilliss and G. K. Giovanetti and M. P. Green and J. Gruszko and I. S. Guinn and V. E. Guiseppe and C. R. Haufe and R. J. Hegedus and R. Henning and D. Hervas Aguilar and E. W. Hoppe and A. Hostiuc and M. F. Kidd and I. Kim and R. T. Kouzes and A. Li and J. C. Loach and A. M. Lopez and J. M. López-Castaño and P. N. Luke and E. L. Martin and R. D. Martin and R. Massarczyk and S. J. Meijer and S. Mertens and J. Myslik and T. K. Oli and G. Othman and D. Peterson and W. Pettus and A. W. P. Poon and D. C. Radford and J. Rager and A. L. Reine and K. Rielage and R. G. H. Robertson and N. W. Ruof and B. Sayki and M. J. Stortini and D. Tedeschi and M. Turqueti and T. D. Van Wechel and R. L. Varner and S. Vasilyev and K. Vetter and J. F. Wilkerson and C. Wiseman and W. Xu and H. Yaver and C. -H. Yu and B. X. Zhu and S. Zimmermann},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2111.09351},
year = {2022}
}
Comments
For submission to JINST, 17 figures. v2: revised version