A new TAC-based multichannel front-end electronics for TOF experiments with very high time resolution
- Resource Type
- Periodical
- Authors
- Koch, K.; Hardel, H.; Schulze, R.; Badura, E.; Hoffmann, J.
- Source
- IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci. Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on. 52(3):745-747 Jun, 2005
- Subject
- Nuclear Engineering
Bioengineering
Time measurement
Capacitors
Application specific integrated circuits
Voltage
Timing
Delay lines
Aerospace electronics
Linearity
Energy consumption
Costs
High-precision time measurement
high-resolution time measurement
time-amplitude converter
time-amplitude converter ASIC
time of flight experiment
- Language
- ISSN
- 0018-9499
1558-1578
This paper presents a compact electronics for time measurements with very high resolution of about 10 ps rms. It has been designed for large scale physics experiments with thousands of channels. As an essential part of the timing front-end electronics, a high resolution time-to-amplitude converter (TAC) chip was developed with an outstanding linearity and low power consumption at low cost.