학술논문

Design and operation of front-end electronics for the HERA-B muon detector
Document Type
Conference
Source
1998 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record. 1998 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference (Cat. No.98CH36255) Nuclear science and medical imaging Nuclear Science Symposium, 1998. Conference Record. 1998 IEEE. 2:902-909 vol.2 1998
Subject
Nuclear Engineering
Power, Energy and Industry Applications
Fields, Waves and Electromagnetics
Engineered Materials, Dielectrics and Plasmas
Mesons
Readout electronics
Anodes
Wires
Cathodes
Variable speed drives
Control systems
Monitoring
Distributed control
Microcontrollers
Language
ISSN
1082-3654
Abstract
We have implemented a cost-effective design for the readout electronics of both the anode wires and the cathode pads of large area proportional wire chambers for the HERA-B muon system based on the ASD-08 integrated circuit. To control and monitor the large number of readout channels, we have built a distributed control system based on Philips Semiconductors' I/sup 2/C bus and microcontrollers. To date we have installed about 10800 channels of muon chambers and electronics. The average single channel noise occupancy is less than 10/sup -5/, and the detectors have been operated with target interaction rates as high as 70 MHz.