Published January 2016 | Version v1
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Design of a constant fraction discriminator for the VFAT3 front-end ASIC of the CMS GEM detector

Creators

  • 1. CERN, Geneva (Switzerland)
  • 2. INFN Bari and University of Bari, Bari (Italy)
  • 3. Helwan University and CTP, Cairo (Egypt)
  • 4. Texas A and M University at Qatar, Doha (Qatar)
  • 5. Academy of Scientific Research and Technology - Egyptian Network of High Energy Physics, ASRT-ENHEP, Cairo (Egypt)
  • 6. University of Florida, Gainesville (United States)
  • 7. National Center for Physics, Quaid-i-Azam University Campus, Islamabad (Pakistan)
  • 8. Institute for Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy, Sofia (Bulgaria)
  • 9. Peking University, Beijing (China)
  • 10. Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata (India)

Description

In this work the design of a constant fraction discriminator (CFD) to be used in the VFAT3 chip for the read-out of the triple-GEM detectors of the CMS experiment, is described. A prototype chip containing 8 CFDs was implemented using 130 nm CMOS technology and test results are shown

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/11/01/C01023

Additional details

Identifiers

DOI
10.1088/1748-0221/11/01/C01023;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Journal of Instrumentation
Journal Volume
11
Journal Issue
01
Journal Page Range
p. C01023
ISSN
1748-0221

INIS

Country of Publication
United Kingdom
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
47072357
Subject category
S46: INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY;
Descriptors DEI
CMS DETECTOR; DESIGN; ELECTRON MULTIPLIER DETECTORS; READOUT SYSTEMS; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES
Descriptors DEC
MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; RADIATION DETECTORS