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Large liquid argon Time Projection Chambers have been adopted for the DUNE experiment's far detector, which will be composed of four 17 kton detectors situated 1.5 km underground at the Sanford Underground Research Facility. This represents…

Building upon existing signal processing techniques and open-source software, this paper presents a baseline design for an RF System-on-Chip Frequency Division Multiplexed readout for a spatio-spectral focal plane instrument based on low…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-10 Colm Bracken , Eoin Baldwin , Gerhard Ulbricht , Mario de Lucia , Tom Ray

We report our most recent progress and demonstration of a frequency domain multiplexing (FDM) readout technology for transition-edge sensor (TES) arrays, both of which we have been developing, in the framework of the X-IFU instrument on…

We present the optimization and performance characterization of the second-generation Fermilab Constant Fraction Discriminator ASIC (FCFD), designed for the readout of AC-coupled low-gain avalanche detector (LGAD) strip-sensors. The FCFD is…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-12-24 Artur Apresyan , Shuoxing Wu , Si Xie , Cristián Peña , Tom Zimmerman , Sergey Los , Todd Zenger , Zhenyu Ye

A new TDC-chip is under development for the COMPASS experiment at CERN. The ASIC, which exploits the 0.6 micrometer CMOS sea-of-gate technology, will allow high resolution time measurements with digitization of 75 ps, and an unprecedented…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Braun , H. Fischer , J. Franz , A. Grunemaier , F. H. Heinsius , K. Konigsmann , M. Schierloh , T. Schmidt , H. Schmitt , H. J. Urban

The HERA-B Outer Tracker is a large detector with 112674 drift chamber channels. It is exposed to a particle flux of up to 2x10^5/cm^2/s thus coping with conditions similar to those expected for the LHC experiments. The front-end readout…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2009-11-10 H. Albrecht et al.

At Argonne National Laboratory, we are developing hard X-ray (2 to 20 keV) Transition Edge Sensor (TES) arrays for beamline science. The significantly improved energy resolution provided by superconducting detectors compared to…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-06-02 T. Guruswamy , L. Gades , A. Miceli , U. Patel , O. Quaranta

Silicon photo-multipliers (SiPM) have been replacing traditional photomultiplier tubes in most light sensing applications. However, when large detection surface coverage is needed, photomultipliers (PMTs) are still the preferred choice. The…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-03-13 Luca Giangrande , Matthieu Heller , Yannick Favre , Teresa Montaruli

We have fabricated multilayer readout wiring Transition Edge Sensors (TES), which enable us to realize both large effective area and high-energy resolution for future X-ray astrophysical missions, such as DIOS. By sandwiching a SiO2…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2014-02-04 Shin'ya Yamada , Y. Ezoe , Y. Ishisaki , T. Ohashi , N. Iijima , K. Mitsuda , K. Nagayoshi , H. Akamatsu , T. Morooka , K. Tanaka

The Forward Silicon Tracker (FST) is a pivotal component of the forward upgrade of the Solenoidal Tracker at RHIC (STAR), designed to discern hadron charge signs with a momentum resolution better than 30% for $0.2 < p_T < 2$ GeV/c in the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-01-16 J. D. Brandenburg , Y. Chang , J. Dong , Y. He , Y. Hu , B. Huang , H. Huang , T. Huang , H. Li , M. Nie , R. Sharma , X. Sun , P. Tribedy , F. Videbæk , G. Visser , G. Wilks , P. Wang , G. Xie , G. Yan , Z. Ye , L. Yi , Y. Yang , S. Zhang , Z. Zhang

A fast readout system for the upgrade of the COMPASS RICH detector has been developed and successfully used for data taking in 2006 and 2007. The new readout system for the multi-anode PMTs in the central part of the photon detector of the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-14 C. Schill

We present our latest ASIC, which is used for the readout of Cadmium Telluride double-sided strip detectors (CdTe DSDs) and high spectroscopic imaging. It is implemented in a 0.35 um CMOS technology (X-Fab XH035), consists of 64 readout…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-09-02 Tenyo Kawamura , Tadashi Orita , Shin'ichiro Takeda , Shin Watanabe , Hirokazu Ikeda , Tadayuki Takahashi

The surface detector (SD) array of the Pierre Auger Observatory containing at present 1680 water Cherenkov detectors spread over an area of 3000 km^2 started to operate since 2004. The currently used Front-End Boards are equipped with…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2014-06-10 Zbigniew Szadkowski

This work presents the design and preliminary performance of a highly-multiplexed superconducting detector readout. The readout system is implemented on the Xilinx ZCU111 RFSoC Evaluation Board. The current design uses 12% of the DSPs, 60%…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-31 Jennifer Pearl Smith , John I. Bailey , III. , Benjamin A. Mazin

A readout electronics used in space cosmic-ray charges measurement for multi-channel silicon detector and its performance test results are introduced in this paper. A 64-channel charge sensitive ASIC (VA140) from IDEAS company is adopt in…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2013-07-12 Zhang Fei , Fan Rui-Rui , Peng Wen-Xi , Dong Yi-Fan , Gong Ke , Liang Xiao-Hua , Liu Ya-Qing , Wang Huan-Yu

This paper describes a FADC Readout system developed for the tap water $\alpha/\beta$ dose monitoring system which is based on EJ444 phoswich scintillation detector and wavelength shifting fiber readout. The Readout system contains dual…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-10-28 Jingjun Wen , Daowei Dou , Jinfu Zhu , Zhi Zeng , Tao Xue , Jianmin Li , Junli Li , Yinong Liu

We present RF-ICE, a novel readout platform for microwave kinetic inductance detectors (MKIDs), optimized for use on millimeter-wavelength telescopes. The RF-ICE system extends ICE, a versatile, mature signal processing platform currently…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-12 M. Rouble , G. Smecher , A. Anderson , P. S. Barry , K. Dibert , M. Dobbs , K. S. Karkare , J. Montgomery

Multiplexers based on the modulation of superconducting quantum interference devices are now regularly used in multi-kilopixel arrays of superconducting detectors for astrophysics, cosmology, and materials analysis. Over the next decade,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-05-02 K. D. Irwin , H. M. Cho , W. B. Doriese , J. W. Fowler , G. C. Hilton , M. D. Niemack , C. D. Reintsema , D. R. Schmidt , J. N. Ullom , L. R. Vale

Multiple-Amplifier Sensing (MAS) charge-coupled devices (CCDs) have recently been shown to be promising silicon detectors that meet noise sensitivity requirements for next generation Stage-5 spectroscopic surveys and potentially, future…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-30 Kenneth W. Lin , Abby Bault , Armin Karcher , Julien Guy , Stephen E. Holland , William F. Kolbe , Peter E. Nugent

This paper presents the NSX front-end ASIC, being developed to read charge signals from the HEMA and WFM X-ray detectors for the STROBE-X mission. The ASIC reads out signals from up to 64 anodes of linear Silicon Drift Detectors (SDDs).…