1. The electronics of the H1 lead/scintillating-fibre calorimeters-H1 SpaCal Group
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R.-D. Appuhn, C. Arndt, E. Barrelet, R. Barschke, U. Bassler, F. Blouzon, V. Boudry, F. Brasse, Ph. Bruel, D. Bruncko, R. Buchholz, B. Cahan, S. Chechelnitski, B. Claxton, G. Cozzika, J. Cvach, S. Dagoret-Campagne, W.D. Dau, H. Deckers, T. Deckers, F. Descamps, M. Dirkmann, J. Dowdell, C. Drancourt, O. Durant, V. Efremenko, E. Eisenhandler, A.N. Eliseev, G. Falley, J. Ferencei, M. Fleischer, B. Fominykh, K. Gadow, U. Goerlach, L.A. Gorbov, I. Gorelov, M. Grewe, L. Hajduk, I. Herynek, J. Hladky, M. Hütte, H. Hutter, M. Janata, W. Janczur, J. Janoth, L. Jönsson, I. Kacl, H. Kolanoski, V. Korbel, F. Kriván, D. Lacour, B. Laforge, F. Lamarche, M.P.J. Landon, J.-F. Laporte, H. Lebollo, A.Le Coguie, F. Lehner, R. Maracek, P. Matricon, K. Meier, A. Meyer, A. Migliori, F. Moreau, G. Müller, P. Murín, V. Nagovizin, T.C. Nicholls, D. Ozerov, J.-P. Passerieux, E. Perez, J.P. Pharabod, R. Pöschl, Ch. Renard, A. Rostovtsev, C. Royon, K. Rybicki, S. Schlief, K. Schmitt, A. Schuhmacher, A. Semenov, V. Shekelyan, Y. Sirois, P.A. Smirnov, V. Solochenko, J. Spalek, S. Spielmann, H. Steiner, A. Stellberger, J. Stiewe, M. Taševský, V. Tchernyshov, K. Thiele, E. Tzamariudaki, S. Valkár, C. Vallée, A. Vallereau, D. VanDenPlas, G. Villet, K. Wacker, A. Walther, M. Weber, D. Wegener, T. Wenk, J. Záček, A. Zhokin, P. Zini, and K. Zuber
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Physics ,Nuclear and High Energy Physics ,Photomultiplier ,Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors ,Dynamic range ,Preamplifier ,business.industry ,Detector ,HERA ,Noise (electronics) ,law.invention ,Optics ,law ,High Energy Physics::Experiment ,Electronics ,Collider ,business ,Instrumentation - Abstract
The electronic system developed for the SpaCal lead/scintillating-fibre calorimeters of the H1 detector in operation at the HERA ep collider is described in detail and the performance achieved during H1 data-taking is presented. The 10 MHz bunch crossing rate of HERA puts severe constraints on the requirements of the electronics. The energy and time readout are performed respectively with a 14-bit dynamic range and with a resolution of about 0.4 ns. The trigger branch consists of a nanosecond-resolution calorimetric time-of-flight for background rejection and an electron trigger based on analog `sliding windows'. The on-line background rejection currently achieved is o(10**6). The electron trigger allows a low energy trigger threshold to be set at about 0.50 +/- 0.08 (RMS) GeV with an efficiency >99.9%. The energy and time performance of the readout and trigger electronics is based on a newly-developed low noise (sigma_noise ca. 0.4 MeV) wideband (f < 200 MHz) preamplifier located at the output of the photomultipliers which are used for the fibre light readout in the ca. 1 Tesla magnetic field of H1.
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- 1999
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