Front-end electronics of the Compact High Energy Camera

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Leach, S. A. [1 ]
Lapington, J. S. [1 ]
Ross, D. [1 ]
Thornhill, J. [1 ]
Duffy, C. [1 ]
Funk, S. [2 ]
Zink, A. [2 ]
Jankowsky, D. [2 ]
White, R. [3 ]
Zorn, J. [3 ]
Tibaldo, L. [3 ]
Varner, G. [4 ]
Okumura, A. [5 ]
Tajima, H. [5 ]
Watson, J. [6 ]
机构
[1] Univ Leicester, Leicester, Leics, England
[2] Friedrich Alexander Univ Erlangen Nurnberg FAU, ECAP, Nurnberg, Germany
[3] MPI Kernphys, Heidelberg, Germany
[4] Univ Hawaii, Honolulu, HI 96822 USA
[5] Nagoya Univ, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan
[6] Univ Oxford, Oxford, England
关键词
CHEC; TARGET; CTA; Front-end electronics; Silicon photomultipliers; Readout; SST-2M; Full-waveform readout;
D O I
10.1016/j.nima.2018.12.061
中图分类号
TH7 [仪器、仪表];
学科分类号
0804 ; 080401 ; 081102 ;
摘要
The Compact High Energy Camera is a focal plane camera designed for two mirror Schwarzschild-Couder design imaging air Cherenkov telescopes such as the SST-2M variants on the Cherenkov Telescope Array. It utilises a 2048-pixel array of silicon photomultipliers arranged in thirty-two 8 x 8 pixel(2) tiles. Each detector tile is instrumented with a front-end electronics module designed to provide single photon counting with sub-nanosecond timing, full-waveform digitisation and event triggering capabilities based around TARGET ASICs. Performance results including triggering, digitiser noise, signal crosstalk, linearity and dynamic range from initial laboratory tests have been collated and are presented.
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