A linear gate and transmitter for improving localization using the charge division method
Busso, L.; Feliciello, A.; Marcello, S.; Morra, O.; Panzarasa, A., E-mail: alberto.panzarasa@to.infn.it2002
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[en] We developed an electronic system which, used with drift chambers, allows to perform a precise charge division measurement of the longitudinal coordinate, even if the sense wire is held at high voltage and a decoupling capacitor is needed. The idea is to create a temporal gate at the arrival of the signal and transmit to the ADC only this part of the signal. The gate remains open for a short period (120 ns), corresponding to the duration of the anode pulse and delivers, at its output, a pulse of amplitude linearly dependent from the input value. In this way the systematic error is better than 1% of the wire length. It introduces a considerable improvement in comparison with previously used software corrections, mainly from the linearity and simplicity point of view
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S0168900201020691; Copyright (c) 2002 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
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Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research. Section A, Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment; ISSN 0168-9002; ; CODEN NIMAER; v. 485(3); p. 640-644
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