Trigger and readout electronics for the STEREO experiment
Abstract
The STEREO experiment will search for a sterile neutrino by measuring the anti-neutrino energy spectrum as a function of the distance from the source, the ILL nuclear reactor. A dedicated electronic system, hosted in a single microTCA crate, was designed for this experiment. It performs triggering in two stages with various selectable conditions, processing and readout via UDP/IPBUS of 68 photomultiplier signals continuously digitized at 250 MSPS. Additionally, for detector performance monitoring, the electronics allow on-line calibration by driving LED synchronously with the data acquisition. This paper describes the electronics requirements, architecture and the performances achieved.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- October 2015
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1510.08238
- Bibcode:
- 2015arXiv151008238B
- Keywords:
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- Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
- E-Print:
- Topical Workshop on Electronics for Particle Physics (TWEPP) 2015, Lisboa. 9 pages, 9 figures