The STEREO experiment will search for a sterile neutrino by measuring the anti-neutrino energy spectrum as a function of the distance from the source, the ILL nuclear reactor. A dedicated electronic system, hosted in a single microTCA crate, was designed for this experiment. It performs triggering in two stages with various selectable conditions, processing and readout via UDP/IPBUS of 68 photomultiplier signals continuously digitized at 250 MSPS. Additionally, for detector performance monitoring, the electronics allow on-line calibration by driving LED synchronously with the data acquisition. This paper describes the electronics requirements, architecture and the performances achieved.
@article{arxiv.1510.08238,
title = {Trigger and readout electronics for the STEREO experiment},
author = {O. Bourrion and J. L. Bouly and J. Bouvier and G. Bosson and V. Helaine and J. Lamblin and C. Li and F. Montanet and J. S. Real and T. Salagnac and N. Ponchant and A. Stutz and D. Tourres and C. Vescovi and S. Zsoldos},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1510.08238},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
Topical Workshop on Electronics for Particle Physics (TWEPP) 2015, Lisboa. 9 pages, 9 figures