A PMT-Block test bench
Creators
- 1. Universita degli studi di Siena, via Roma 56, 53100 Siena (Italy)
- 2. Dipartimento di Fisica 'E.Fermi', Universita di Pisa and Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Pisa, Largo B. Pontecorvo 3, Pisa 56127 (Italy)
- 3. National Capodistrian University of Athens, 30 Panepistimiou st., Athens 10679 (Greece)
- 4. Institute of Accelerating Systems and Applications, P.O. Box 17214, Athens 10024 (Greece)
Description
The front-end electronics of the ATLAS hadronic calorimeter (Tile Cal) is housed in a unit, called PMT-Block. The PMT-Block is a compact instrument comprising a light mixer, a PMT together with its divider and a 3-in-1 card, which provides shaping, amplification and integration for the signals. This instrument needs to be qualified before being assembled on the detector. A PMT-Block test bench has been developed for this purpose. This test bench is a system which allows fast, albeit accurate enough, measurements of the main properties of a complete PMT-Block. The system, both hardware and software, and the protocol used for the PMT-Blocks characterization are described in detail in this report. The results obtained in the test of about 10 000 PMT-Blocks needed for the instrumentation of the ATLAS (LHC-CERN) hadronic Tile Calorimeter are also reported
Additional details
Identifiers
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.nima.2006.03.045;
- arXiv
- arXiv:physics/0605074v1;
- PII
- S0168-9002(06)00604-8;
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research. Section A, Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
- Journal Volume
- 564
- Journal Issue
- 1
- Journal Page Range
- p. 597-607
- ISSN
- 0168-9002
- CODEN
- NIMAER
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Netherlands
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 38035123
- Subject category
- S46: INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY;
- Descriptors DEI
- AMPLIFICATION; CERN; CERN LHC; COMPUTER CODES; HADRONS; SHOWER COUNTERS; SIGNALS
- Descriptors DEC
- ACCELERATORS; CYCLIC ACCELERATORS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS; MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; RADIATION DETECTORS; STORAGE RINGS; SYNCHROTRONS
Optional Information
- Copyright
- Copyright (c) 2006 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.