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The CMS detector will be upgraded for the HL-LHC to include a MIP Timing Detector (MTD). The MTD will consist of barrel and endcap timing layers, BTL and ETL respectively, providing precision timing of charged particles. The BTL sensors are…

In this paper the PreAmplifier ShAper (PASA) for the Time Projection Chamber (TPC) of the ALICE experiment at LHC is presented. The ALICE TPC PASA is an ASIC that integrates 16 identical channels, each consisting of Charge Sensitive…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2012-03-19 H. K. Soltveit , J. Stachel , P. Braun-Munzinger , L. Musa , H. A. Gustafsson , U. Bonnes , H. Oeschler , L. Osterman , S. Lang

This contribution investigates a prototype of a TPC readout with a highly pixelated CMOS ASIC, which is an option for charged particles tracking of the ILC. A triple GEM stack was joined with a TimePix and MediPix2 chip (pixel size of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2009-02-16 A. Bamberger , K. Desch , U. Renz , M. Titov , N. Vlasov , P. Wienemann , S. Zimmermann , A. Zwerger

We present the second prototype of a time-to-digital (TDC) ASIC for the upgrade of the ATLAS Monitored Drift Tube (MDT) detector for High-Luminosity LHC operations. Compared to the first prototype, triple modular redundancy has been…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-12-30 Yuxiang Guo , Jinhong Wang , Yu Liang , Xiong Xiao , Xueye Hu , Qi An , J. W. Chapman , Tiesheng Dai , Lei Zhao , Zhengguo Zhao , Bing Zhou , Junjie Zhu

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

We present the design and performance characterization results of the novel Fermilab Constant Fraction Discriminator ASIC (FCFD) developed to readout low gain avalanche detector (LGAD) signals by directly using a constant fraction…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-06-14 Si Xie , Artur Apresyan , Ryan Heller , Christopher Madrid , Irene Dutta , Aram Hayrapetyan , Sergey Los , Cristian Pena , Tom Zimmerman

We report on the design of a serializer ASIC to be used in the ATLAS forward muon detector for trigger data transmission. We discuss the performance of a prototype chip covering power dissipation, latency and stable operating line rate.…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-01-20 Jinhong Wang , Liang Guan , Ziru Sang , J. W. Chapman , Tiesheng Dai , Bing Zhou , Junjie Zhu

The upgrade of the ATLAS muon spectrometer for high-luminosity LHC requires new trigger and readout electronics for the various elements of the detector. We present the design of a time-to-digital converter (TDC) ASIC prototype for the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-03-14 Jinhong Wang , Yu Liang , Xiong Xiao , Qi An , John W. Chapman , Tiesheng Dai , Bing Zhou , Junjie Zhu , Lei Zhao

Compact multi-channel radiation detectors rely on low noise front-end application specific integrated circuits (ASICs) to achieve high spectral resolution. Here, a new ASIC developed to readout virtual Frisch-grid cadmium zinc telluride…

The Time Projection Chamber is the main tracking and particle identification detector of the ALICE experiment. The high luminosities delivered by the CERN LHC in Run 2 (2015-2018) posed new challenges in terms of detector performance and…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-09-10 Ernst Hellbär

In this paper, we present a dual-channel serializer ASIC, LOCx2, and its pin-compatible backup, LOCx2-130, for detector front-end readout. LOCx2 is fabricated in a 0.25-um Silicon-on-Sapphire CMOS process and each channel operates at 5.12…

In the upcoming LHC Run 3, starting in 2021, the upgraded Time Projection Chamber (TPC) of the ALICE experiment will record minimum bias Pb-Pb collisions in a continuous readout mode at an interaction rate up to 50 kHz. This corresponds to…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-02-03 Marten Ole Schmidt

The ALICE experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) proposes major detector upgrades to fully exploit the increase of the luminosity of the LHC in RUN~3 and to extend the physics reach for rare probes at low transverse momentum. The…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-13 Taku Gunji

We report on a large active area (15x15mm2), high channel density (470 pixels/mm2), self-triggering CMOS analog chip that we have developed as pixelized charge collecting electrode of a Micropattern Gas Detector. This device, which…

A new type of Time Projection Chamber (TPC) has been proposed for the upgrade of the ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment at CERN) so as to cater to the high luminosity environment expected at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) facility in…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-11-17 Saikat Biswas

The prototype of time digitizing system for the upgrade of BESIII endcap TOF (ETOF) is introduced in this paper. The ETOF readout electronics has a formation of distributed architecture that hit signal from multi-gap resistive plate chamber…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2013-06-04 Cao Ping , Sun Wei-Jia , Ji Xiao-Lu , Fan Huan-Huan , Wang Si-Yu , Liu Shu-Bin , An Qi

T0 detector, based on Multi-gap Resistive Plate Chambers (MRPC) technology, is one of the key components in the External Target Experiment. Through precision measurements of the MRPC signals, timing of the beam impact on target can be…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-09-25 Peipei Deng , Lei Zhao , Jiaming Lu , Pinzheng Xia , Jinxin Liu , Min Li , Shubin Liu , Qi An

With the ultimate goal of developing a pixel-based readout for a TPC at the ILC, a GridPix readout system consisting of one Timepix3 chip with an integrated amplification grid was embedded in a prototype detector. The performance was…

A second monolithic silicon pixel prototype was produced for the MONOLITH project. The ASIC contains a matrix of hexagonal pixels with 100 {\mu}m pitch, readout by a low-noise and very fast SiGe HBT frontend electronics. Wafers with 50…

The design and measurement results of ultra-low power, fast 10-bit Successive Approximation Register (SAR) Analog-to-Digital Converter (ADC) prototypes in 65 nm CMOS technology are presented. Eight prototype ADCs were designed using two…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-12-25 Mirosław Firlej , Tomasz Fiutowski , Marek Idzik , Jakub Moroń , Krzysztof Świentek