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The NA62 LAV front-end electronics

Instrumentation and Detectors 2015-06-03 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

The branching ratio for the decay K+π+ννˉK^+ \to \pi^+\nu\bar{\nu} is sensitive to new physics; the NA62 experiment will measure it to within about 10%. To reject the dominant background from channels with final state photons, the large-angle vetoes (LAVs) must detect particles with better than 1 ns time resolution and 10% energy resolution over a very large energy range. Our custom readout board uses a time-over-threshold discriminator coupled to a TDC as a straightforward solution to satisfy these requirements. A prototype of the readout system was extensively tested together with the ANTI-A2 large angle veto module at CERN in summer 2010.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1111.5768,
  title  = {The NA62 LAV front-end electronics},
  author = {A. Antonelli and G. Corradi and M. Moulson and C. Paglia and M. Raggi and T. Spadaro and D. Tagnani and F. Ambrosino and D. Di Filippo and P. Massarotti and M. Napolitano and G. Saracino and B. Angelucci and F. Costantini and R. Fantechi and S. Gallorini and S. Giudici and I. Mannelli and F. Raffaelli and S. Venditti and G. D'Agostini and E. Leonardi and V. Palladino and M. Serra and P. Valente},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1111.5768},
  year   = {2015}
}

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prepared for the TWEPP 2011 conference proceedings

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