The new readout electronics for the BaF/sub 2/-calorimeter TAPS

Authors :: R. W. Novotny
W. Bonn
M. Steinacher
G. van der Kruk
U. Thoring
R. Holzmann
T.W. Nijboer
B. Krusche
H. Vorenholt
V. Metag
P. Drexler
M. Thiel
C. Salz
H.A.P. van der Duin
A. S. Potapov
Herbert Löhner
S. Schadmand
Research unit Nuclear & Hadron Physics
Source :: IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, 50(4), 969-973. IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
Publication Year :: 2003
Publisher :: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2003.
Abstract: A highly compact and fast VME based readout board for BaF/sub 2/ scintillation detectors has been designed, developed, and finally tested in an in-beam experiment. Adapted to the excellent properties of BaF/sub 2/, the unit allows to digitize time, energy, and pulse-shape information of four detector channels in parallel. The board is piggy-back plugged onto a motherboard containing a high-speed 12-bit ADC and the VME interface, commercially available in the customized version CAEN V874 A. Both combine to one single VME slot. A first measurement of the photon response of a TAPS subarray with energy tagged photons up to 2.6 GeV documents the full functionality and excellent performance.