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This article presents the readout electronics of a novel beam monitoring system for ion research facility accelerator. The readout electronics are divided into Front-end Card (FEC) and Readout Control Unit (RCU). FEC uses Topmetal II minus…

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The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is an international initiative to build the next generation ground based very-high energy gamma-ray observatory. It will consist of telescopes of three different sizes, employing several different…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 A. Bonardi , T. Buanes , P. Chadwick , F. Dazzi , A. Förster , J. R. Hörandel , M. Punch , R. M. Wagner

The Pad Front End Board (pFEB) and the Strip Front End Board (sFEB) are developed for the ATLAS Phase-I sTGC Trigger Upgrade. The pFEB is used to to gather and analyze pads trigger, and the sFEB is developed to accept the pad trigger to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-06-12 Xinxin Wang , Feng Li , Shengquan Liu , Peng Miao , Zhilei Zhang , Tianru Geng , Shuang Zhou , Ge Jin

We characterized the front-end electronics used to process high-frequency signals from low-gain avalanche diodes (LGADs) at the Fermilab Test Beam Facility. LGADs are silicon detectors employed for charged particle tracking, offering…

CTAO's (Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory) largest telescopes type, the LST (Large-Sized Telescope), are being installed at the northern site of the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) at the Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos on the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-03 F. Marini , M. Bellato , A. Bergnoli , D. Corti , A. Griggio , R. Isocrate , L. Modenese , M. Toffano , C. Arcaro , F. Di Pierro , M. Mariotti , M. Mi , P. Wang

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

Recent advances in cold atom interferometry with optical and magnetic atom guides have set the stage for quantum inertial sensors capable of operating in dynamic environments. In this work, we present three key innovations, such as…

The Front End Driver, FED, is a 9U 400mm VME64x card designed for reading out the Compact Muon Solenoid, CMS, silicon tracker signals transmitted by the APV25 analogue pipeline Application Specific Integrated Circuits. The FED receives the…

Prime-Cam is a first-generation instrument for the Cerro Chajnantor Atacama Telescope-prime (CCAT-prime) Facility. The 850$~$GHz module for Prime-Cam will probe the highest frequency of all the instrument modules. We describe the parameter…

The description is given for the speckle interferometer of the BTA 6-m telescope of the SAO RAS based on a new detector with an electron multiplication CCD. The main components of the instrument are microscope objectives, interference…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-02 A. F. Maksimov , Yu. Yu. Balega , V. V. Dyachenko , E. V. Malogolovets , D. A. Rastegaev , E. A. Semernikov

To cope with the enhanced luminosity at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in 2021, the ATLAS collaboration is planning a major detector upgrade. As a part of this, the Level 1 trigger based on calorimeter data will be upgraded to exploit the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-06-26 B. Bauss , A. Brogna , V. Bücher , J. Damp , R. Degele , H. Herr , C. Kahra , S. Rave , E. Rocco , U. Schäfer , J. Souza , D. B. Ta , S. Tapprogge , M. Weirich

The AdvCam is a next-generation camera for the Large-Sized Telescopes of the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory, based on silicon photomultipliers. Its fully digital readout system enables the design of new, sophisticated trigger logic.…

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The Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope (FYST) at the Cerro-Chajnantor Atacama Telescope prime (CCAT- prime) Facility will host Prime-Cam as a powerful, first generation camera with imaging polarimeters working at several wavelengths and…

The Smart Pixel Camera is a new camera for imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes, suited for a next generation of large multi-telescope ground based gamma-ray observatories. The design of the camera foresees all electronics needed to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 German Hermann , Svenja Carrigan , Bernhard Glück , Dominik Hauser

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

The SST-1M is one of three prototype small-sized telescope designs proposed for the Cherenkov Telescope Array, and is built by a consortium of Polish and Swiss institutions. The SST-1M will operate with DigiCam - an innovative, compact…

TAUKAM stands for "TAUtenburg KAMera", which will become the new prime-focus imager for the Tautenburg Schmidt telescope. It employs an e2v 6kx6k CCD and is under manufacture by Spectral Instruments Inc. We describe the design of the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-02 Bringfried Stecklum , Jochen Eislöffel , Sylvio Klose , Uwe Laux , Tom Löwinger , Helmut Meusinger , Michael Pluto , Johannes Winkler , Frank Dionies

Constraining the Galactic foregrounds with multi-frequency Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) observations is an essential step towards ultimately reaching the sensitivity to measure primordial gravitational waves (PGWs), the sign of…

ANTARES is a high-energy neutrino telescope installed in the Mediterranean Sea at a depth of 2475 m. It consists of a three-dimensional array of optical modules, each containing a large photomultiplier tube. A total of 2700 front-end ASICs…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-27 ANTARES collaboration