A front-end read out chip for the OPERA scintillator tracker

Lucotte, A.; Bondil, S.; Borer, K.; Campagne, Jean-Eric; Cazes, A.; Heß, M.; Taille, C. de la; Martin-Chassard, Gisèle; Raux, L.; Repellin, J. P.

doi:10.1016/j.nima.2003.10.104

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“…The telescopes architecture is adapted from a well-known technology used in large high energy physics experiments such as OPERA (Lucotte et al, 2004;Marteau et al, 2011).…”

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Design and operation of a field telescope for cosmic ray geophysical tomography

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Marteau

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Geosci. Instrum. Method. Data Syst.

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Abstract. The cosmic ray muon tomography gives an access to the density structure of geological targets. In the present article we describe a muon telescope adapted to harsh environmental conditions. In particular the design optimizes the total weight and power consumption to ease the deployment and increase the autonomy of the detector. The muon telescopes consist of at least two scintillator detection matrices readout by photosensors via optical fibres. Two photosensor options have been studied. The baseline option foresees one multianode photomultiplier (MAPM) per matrix. A second option using one multipixel photon counter (MPPC) per bar is under development. The readout electronics and data acquisition system developed for both options are detailed. We present a first data set acquired in open-sky conditions compared with the muon flux detected across geological objects.

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“…The telescopes architecture is adapted from a well-known technology used in large high energy physics experiments such as OPERA (Lucotte et al, 2004;Marteau et al, 2011).…”

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“…They were designed in the AMS BiCMOS 0.8 µs technology at the Linear Accelerator Laboratory (LAL IN2P3 Orsay, France) for the OPERA experiment (Lucotte et al, 2004). A total time of 12.8 µs is required to readout a MAPM after reception of a trigger, setting the dead-time scale of each telescope plane.…”

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Design and operation of a field telescope for cosmic ray geophysical tomography

Lesparre

Marteau

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et al. 2012

Geosci. Instrum. Method. Data Syst.

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“…A detailed description of the ASIC design and performance can be found in ref. (Lucotte et al, 2004). The DAQ board of the OPERA experiment (Girerd et al, 2000;PATENT, 2006) is a compact data acquisition system able to read and control the signals generated by a multi-anode PMT.…”

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The MU-RAY project: Summary of the round-table discussions

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The MU-RAY project has the challenging aim of performing muon radiography of the summit cone of Mt. Vesuvius. The muon telescopes developed for this purpose will be available for the radiography of other volcanoes, in particular Stromboli. The scientific goals, the strategy for their implementation and the baseline detector design are discussed in detail. A tentative time schedule for the project is drawn.

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“…The target tracker covers a total area of 7000 m 2 and is built of 32000 scintillator strips, each 7 m long and of 25 mm×15 mm cross section. Along the strip, a wavelength shifting fiber of 1 mm diameter transmits the light signals to both ends, where the opto-electonics readout chain includes the Hamamatsu 64 channels MaPMT, a dedicated auto-triggerable front-end ASIC 18 allowing gain correction and an Ethernet capable microprocessor digital board. 22 The muon spectrometer consists of a large 8 × 8 m 2 dipolar magnet delivering a magnetic field of 1.55 T and instrumented with RPC's and drift tubes.…”

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The OPERA experiment: a direct search of the ν_µ → ν_τ oscillations

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2010

Astroparticle, Particle and Space Physics, Detectors and Medical Physics Applications

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The aim of the OPERA experiment is to search for the appearance of the tau neutrino in the quasi pure muon neutrino beam produced at CERN (CNGS). The detector, installed in the Gran Sasso underground laboratory 730 km away from CERN, consists of a lead/emulsion target complemented with electronic detectors. After a short pilot run in 2007, a first physics run took place from June to November 2008. The second physics run started in June 2009. At present a total (2008+2009) of 4.2 10 19 protons on target were delivered by the CNGS, producing more than 25,000 events in time coincidence in the OPERA detector. Among them 4000 events occured in the target of the detector. In this paper the detector and the analysis strategy are described and the status of the analysis of the 2008 and 2009 runs is discussed.

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A front-end read out chip for the OPERA scintillator tracker

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Design and operation of a field telescope for cosmic ray geophysical tomography

Design and operation of a field telescope for cosmic ray geophysical tomography

The MU-RAY project: Summary of the round-table discussions

The OPERA experiment: a direct search of the ν_µ → ν_τ oscillations

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A front-end read out chip for the OPERA scintillator tracker

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Design and operation of a field telescope for cosmic ray geophysical tomography

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The OPERA experiment: a direct search of the νµ → ντ oscillations

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