Front end electronics for the STAR TPC

Authors :: Klein, S.R.
Barale, P.
Beuville, E.
Bieser, F.
Dao, K.
Kleinfelder, S.
Lindenstruth, V.
Lisa, M.A.
McParland, C.
Noggle, T.
Ritter, H.G.
Vu, C.
Wieman, H.
Aluyshin, A.
Aluyshin, M.
Source :: IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science. June, 1996, Vol. 43 Issue 3, p1768, 5 p.
Publication Year :: 1996
Abstract: The Solenoidal Tracker at RHIC (STAR) is a large acceptance detector now being built to study high energy heavy ion collisions. It detects charged particles with a large time projection chamber. The 136,600 TPC pads are instrumented with waveform digitizers, implemented in custom low noise preamplifier/shaper and switched capacitor array/ADCs ICs. The system is highly integrated with all analog functions mounted on small cards that plug into the TPC. Detector mounted readout boards multiplex data from 1152 channels onto a 1.5 Gbit/sec fiber optic link to the data acquisition system.