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A portable telescope based on the ALIBAVA system for test beam studies

Giulio PellegriniCarmen GarcíaA. GreenallMiguel UllanJ. BernabeuGianluigi CasseManuel LozanoS. Marti-garciaCarlos LacastaI. TsurinJavier Rodríguez

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PhysicsNuclear and High Energy Physicsbusiness.industryTrack (disk drive)DetectorTracking (particle physics)SignalParticle detectorlaw.inventionTelescopeData acquisitionlawMeasuring instrumentbusinessInstrumentationComputer hardware

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Abstract A test beam telescope has been built using the ALIBAVA system to drive its data acquisition. The basic telescope planes consist of four XYT stations. Each station is built from a detector board with two strip sensors, mounted one in each side (strips crossing at 90°). The ensemble is coupled to an ALIBAVA daughter board. These stations act as reference frame and allow a precise track reconstruction. The system is triggered by the coincidence signal of the two scintillators located up and down stream. The telescope can hold several devices under tests. Each ALIBAVA daughter board is linked to its corresponding mother board. The system can hold up to 16 mother boards. A master board synchronizes and controls all the mother boards and collects their data. The off-line analysis software has been developed to study the charge collection, cluster width, tracking efficiency, resolution, etc., of the devices under test. Moreover, the built-in ALIBAVA TDC allows the analysis of the time profile of the device signal. The ALIBAVA telescope has been successfully operated in two test runs at the DESY and CERN-SPS beam lines.

yearjournalcountryeditionlanguage
2013-12-01Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2013.06.067