Published July 11, 1999 | Version v1
Journal article

A new wire chamber front-end system, based on the ASD-8 B chip

Description

The Focal-Plane Polarimeter (FPP) for the Big-Bite Spectrometer van den Berg (Nucl. Instr. and Meth. B 99 (1995) 637ff) at the KVI requires the read-out of four large-area MWPCs and two VDCs with 3872 wires in total. The EUROSUPERNOVA collaboration (SNOVA) developed a digital 16 channel preamplifier front-end board, housing two amplifier-shaper-discriminatorchips ASD-8 B. The main features of this board are a fast single-wire readout, a high integration density, a low power consumption and compatibility to common instrumentation standards. The board represents the first successfully running application of the ASD-8 for wire chamber readout. (author)

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PII
S016890029900248X;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research. Section A, Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
Journal Volume
431
Journal Issue
1-2
Journal Page Range
p. 236-238
ISSN
0168-9002
CODEN
NIMAER

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Copyright
Copyright (c) 1999 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.