Pulse pile-up recovery for the front-end electronics of the PANDA Electromagnetic Calorimeter

  • G. Tambave*
  • , E. Guliyev
  • , M. Kavatsyuk
  • , F. Schreuder
  • , H. Löhner
  • , PANDA Collaboration
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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    Abstract

    To study the Charmonium spectrum and search for narrow exotic hadronic states, predicted by Quantum Chromodynamics, the PANDA detector will be employed at the future Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research near Darmstadt in Germany. In the PANDA experiment, 1.5 to 15 GeV/c anti-protons will collide with a hydrogen target at average annihilation rates of 20 MHz. One of the most important sub-detectors of PANDA is the Electromagnetic Calorimeter (EMC) planned for the studies of electromagnetic transitions and neutral meson decays. Due to the high annihilation rates, the EMC will be exposed to single-detector hit rates up to 500 kHz, which may lead to pulse overlap. Hence, to recover the energy and time information of the overlapping pulses, the pulse pile-up recovery method is developed. The method is easy to implement in FPGA for online data processing. The Constant Fraction Timing method is applied at the trailing edge to recover the time stamp of pile-up pulses. The energy of pile-up pulses can be recovered up to time differences equal to the pulse rise-time.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publication2011 IEEE NUCLEAR SCIENCE SYMPOSIUM AND MEDICAL IMAGING CONFERENCE (NSS/MIC)
    Place of PublicationNEW YORK
    PublisherIEEE (The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)
    Pages2163-2168
    Number of pages6
    ISBN (Print)978-1-4673-0120-6
    Publication statusPublished - 2011
    EventIEEE Nuclear Science Symposium/Medical Imaging Conference (NSS/MIC)/18th International Workshop on Room-Temperature Semiconductor X-Ray and Gamma-Ray Detectors - , Spain
    Duration: 23-Oct-201129-Oct-2011

    Publication series

    NameIEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record
    PublisherIEEE
    ISSN (Print)1082-3654

    Other

    OtherIEEE Nuclear Science Symposium/Medical Imaging Conference (NSS/MIC)/18th International Workshop on Room-Temperature Semiconductor X-Ray and Gamma-Ray Detectors
    Country/TerritorySpain
    Period23/10/201129/10/2011

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