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A Dual Digital Signal Processing VME Board was developed for the Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility (CEBAF) Beam Current Monitor (BCM) system at Jefferson Lab. It is a versatile general-purpose digital signal processing board…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2014-11-17 H. Dong , R. Flood , C. Hovater , J. Musson

High-granularity homogeneous electromagnetic calorimeters based on scintillating crystals and silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) are a promising option for future $e^{+}e^{-}$ Higgs factories, where both excellent energy resolution and a very…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-03-10 Zhiyu Zhao , Dejing Du , Shu Li , Yong Liu , Baohua Qi , Jack Rolph , Haijun Yang

In this paper the efficiency of direct charged particle detection with different Silicon PhotoMultiplier (SiPM) sensors has been measured to be close to 100%. Time resolution of about 20 ps has also been confirmed for sensors with an active…

In this article we describe the photon detection readout electronics for the nEDM@SNS experiment. The chosen "photon counting" architecture, which utilizes high-efficiency silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) and is appropriate for low-light…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-09-28 V. Cianciolo , Yu. V. Efremenko , L. Fabris , S. K. Imam , S. I. Penttila J. C. Ramsey , R. Santos Estrada

The design and tests of Timing Counter elements for the upgrade of the MEG experiment, MEG II,is presented. The detector is based on several small plates of scintillator with a Silicon PhotoMultipliers dual-side readout. The optimisation of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-18 M. De Gerone , F. Gatti , W. Ootani , Y. Uchiyama , M. Nishimura , S. Shirabe , P. W. Cattaneo , M. Rossella

A front-end readout electronics system has been developed for silicon strip detectors. The system uses an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) ATHED to realize multi-channel E&T measurement. The slow control of ASIC chips is…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2011-06-13 Yi Qian , Hong Su , Jie Kong , Cheng-Fu Dong , Xiao-Li Ma , Xiao-Gang Li

Silicon photomultipliers are increasingly replacing photomultiplier tubes in Cherenkov telescope cameras, but achieving single-photoelectron resolution with nanosecond timing in a low-noise, scalable detector system remains challenging. We…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-12 Luca Giangrande , Matthieu Heller , Teresa Montaruli

The motivation of the current R&D project is based upon the requirements of the JEDI international collaboration aiming to measure Electric Dipole Moments (EDMs) of charged particles in storage rings. One of the most important elements of…

The performance of scintillator counters with embedded wavelength-shifting fibers has been measured in the Fermilab Meson Test Beam Facility using 120 GeV protons. The counters were extruded with a titanium dioxide surface coating and two…

The operation of large arrays of silicon photomultipliers (SiPM) in tanks of noble liquids requires low noise, low power front-end amplifiers, able to operate reliably in the cryogenic environment. A suitable amplifier needs to be paired…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-10-09 P. Carniti , E. Cristaldo , A. Falcone , C. Gotti , G. Pessina , F. Terranova

The Italian Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN) is involved in the development of a demonstrator for a SiPM-based camera for the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) experiment, with a pixel size of 6$\times$6 mm$^2$. The camera houses about two…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-14 G. Ambrosi , F. Acerbi , E. Bissaldi , A. Ferri , F. Giordano , A. Gola , M. Ionica , R. Paoletti , C. Piemonte , G. Paternoster , D. Simone , V. Vagelli , G. Zappala , N. Zorzi

Silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) have a few advantages over conventional photomultiplier tubes (PMTs) used in imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes. The first notable characteristic is their higher photon detection efficiency (PDE) of up…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-19 Akira Okumura , Junya Haga , Chiaki Inoue , Keiji Nishimoto , Kazuhiro Furuta , Hiroyasu Tajima

A 256-channel time-of-flight (TOF) electronics system has been developed for a beam line facility called "Back-n WNS" in China Spallation Neutron Source (CSNS). This paper shows the structure and performance of electronics system and the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-09-04 Haolei Chen , Changqing Feng , Jiadong Hu , Laifu Luo , Li Wang , Zhixin Tan , Shubin Liu

This paper describes the characterization of crystal matrices and silicon photomultiplier arrays for a novel Positron Emission Tomography (PET) detector, namely the external plate of the EndoTOFPET-US system. The EndoTOFPET-US collaboration…

The readout electronics for the resonant beam position monitors (BPMs) in the Fermilab Switchyard (SY) have been upgraded, utilizing a low noise amplifier transition board and Fermilab designed digitizer boards. The stripline BPMs are…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2017-01-05 T. Petersen , J. Diamond , N. Liu , P. S. Prieto , D. Slimmer , A. Watts

Time-Division Multiplexing is the readout architecture of choice for many ground and space experiments, as it is a very mature technology with proven outstanding low-frequency noise stability, which represents a central challenge in…

We have developed a custom amplifier board coupled to a large-format 16-channel Hamamatsu silicon photomultiplier device for use as the light sensor for the electromagnetic calorimeters in the Muon g-2 experiment at Fermilab. The…

The barrel section of the novel MIP Timing Detector (MTD) will be constructed as part of the upgrade of the CMS experiment to provide a time resolution for single charged tracks in the range of $30-60$ ps using LYSO:Ce crystal arrays read…

The Multi-Pixel Photon Counter (MPPC) or Silicon Photomultiplier (SiPM) can detect from a single photon to several thousand ones; it has high gain -$10^{5}$ to $10^{6}$-, low operation voltage -65 to 75 Vdc-, and small size -typically 3.85…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-05-18 L. Arceo , J. Félix

Semi monolithic detector designs with a series of stacked thin monolithic scintillator plates and side readout are an attractive approach for potentially achieving very high performance in a positron emission tomography (PET) scanner. In…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-02-12 Shiv K. Subedi , Simon R. Cherry , Yi Qiang , Peng Peng