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The Research and Development of New Electronics Systems and Testing on the JNE-1ton Prototype Detector

Instrumentation and Detectors 2026-07-21 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

The Jinping Neutrino Experiment (JNE), a next-generation neutrino observatory under construction at the China Jinping Underground Laboratory II (CJPL-II), requires high-precision waveform-based event reconstruction, imposing stringent demands on its readout electronics. To meet these requirements, we have developed a high-performance readout system featuring 1 GSa/s real-time sampling, 14-bit physical resolution with an effective number of bits (ENOB) of 10.6, a total data throughput of 64 Gbps, and a deterministic zero-delay clock distribution architecture. The new single-crate 64-channel system (PDS1500) was validated through bench tests and deployment on the upgraded JNE-1ton prototype detector. Its performance was further evaluated against a commercial reference system. The results demonstrate that all key metrics meet the JNE experimental requirements: zero data loss within a 1000 ns acquisition window, baseline noise reduced to one-third of the reference level, timing drift limited to 0.3 ns across power cycles, and an energy threshold as low as 0.1 MeV, enabling the detection of low-energy solar neutrinos. While the 14-bit physical resolution provides significantly higher waveform fidelity, the overall energy resolution in this test remains dominated by the intrinsic limitations of the JNE-1ton detector, as expected. Furthermore, the modular architecture provides the throughput and scalability required to support the full-scale 3000-channel JNE detector. These results collectively demonstrate that the newly developed electronics system fully satisfies the technical requirements of the future JNE experiment.

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@article{arxiv.2607.19066,
  title  = {The Research and Development of New Electronics Systems and Testing on the JNE-1ton Prototype Detector},
  author = {Haoyan Yang and Yuzi Yang and Yapeng Wang and Changxu Wei and Haoyang Fu and Haozhe Sun and Juntao Liu and Zhiyi Liu and Tao Xue and Jianmin Li and Yinong Liu and Zhe Wang and Shaomin Chen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.19066},
  year   = {2026}
}