Design and operation of front-end electronics for the HERA-B muon detector

Authors
Buchler, M Funk, W Gutierrez, A Harr, RF Karchin, PE Liu, P Nam, S Shiu, JG Takach, SF Atiya, M Padrazo, D Arefiev, A Barsuk, S Khasanov, F Laptin, L Tchoudakov, V Tichimirov, I Titov, M Zaitsev, Y
Citation
M. Buchler et al., Design and operation of front-end electronics for the HERA-B muon detector, IEEE NUCL S, 46(3), 1999, pp. 126-132
Citations number
5
Categorie Soggetti
Apllied Physucs/Condensed Matter/Materiales Science","Nuclear Emgineering
Journal title
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON NUCLEAR SCIENCE
ISSN journal
00189499 → ACNP
Volume
46
Issue
3
Year of publication
1999
Part
1
Pages
126 - 132
Database
ISI
SICI code
0018-9499(199906)46:3<126:DAOOFE>2.0.ZU;2-V
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-80 integrated circuit. To control and monitor the large number of readout channels, we have built a: distributed control system based on Philips Semiconductors' (IC)-C-2 bu s and microcontrollers. To date we have installed about 10800 channels of m uon chambers and electronics. The average single channel noise occupancy is less than 10(-5), and the detectors have been operated with target interac tion rates as high as 70 MHz.