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RESEARCH PRODUCT

Performance of the Fully Digital FPGA-Based Front-End Electronics for the GALILEO Array

C. A. UrDiego BarrientosD. BortolatoD. BazzaccoP. CocconiD. MengoniM. BellatoEnrique SanchisM. GulminiR. IsocrateD. RossoVicente GonzálezF. RecchiaJose Javier Valiente-dobónAlberto PulliaA. GadeaN. Toniolo

subject

Digital electronicsNuclear and High Energy PhysicsPhysics - Instrumentation and DetectorsPreamplifierbusiness.industryComputer scienceDetectorFOS: Physical sciencesInstrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)Nuclear Energy and EngineeringControl systemAGATAElectronicsNuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)Electrical and Electronic EngineeringGalileo (vibration training)businessField-programmable gate arrayNuclear ExperimentComputer hardware

description

In this work we present the architecture and results of a fully digital Front End Electronics (FEE) read out system developed for the GALILEO array. The FEE system, developed in collaboration with the Advanced Gamma Tracking Array (AGATA) collaboration, is composed of three main blocks: preamplifiers, digitizers and preprocessing electronics. The slow control system contains a custom Linux driver, a dynamic library and a server implementing network services. The digital processing of the data from the GALILEO germanium detectors has demonstrated the capability to achieve an energy resolution of 1.53 per mil at an energy of 1.33 MeV.

yearjournalcountryeditionlanguage
2014-06-16IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science
https://doi.org/10.1109/tns.2015.2480243