Front-end electronics of the Compact High Energy Camera

Leach SA, Lapington JS, Ross D, Thornhill J, Duffy C, Funk S, Zink A, Jankowsky D, White R, Zorn J, Tibaldo L, Varner G, Okumura A, Tajima H, Watson J (2019)


Publication Type: Journal article

Publication year: 2019

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DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2018.12.061

Abstract

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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APA:

Leach, S.A., Lapington, J.S., Ross, D., Thornhill, J., Duffy, C., Funk, S.,... Watson, J. (2019). Front-end electronics of the Compact High Energy Camera. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2018.12.061

MLA:

Leach, S. A., et al. "Front-end electronics of the Compact High Energy Camera." Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment (2019).

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