Prototype design of electronics readout system for solar gamma-ray spectrometer's high energy deposited

	Prototype design of electronics readout system for solar gamma-ray spectrometer's high energy deposited
	Chen Wei; Guo Jianhua; Wang Shen
刊名	Nuclear Techniques（核技术）
	2018
卷号	41 期号:2 页码:20402
英文摘要	[Background] The large area solar gamma-ray spectrometer (LASGA) is a high-energy radiation detector that consists of anti-coincidence detectors and calorimeter. The calorimeter is composed of 5 orthogonal LaBr3 (lanthanum bromide) layers. Each layer includes fourteen 25 mm25 mm400 mm LaBr_3 crystals. To achieve large dynamic range, each LaBr_3 crystal matches with two independent readout elements with different gains. High gain readout uses a photomultiplier tube (PMT) while the low gain uses photodiode (PD). Since PD has no amplification capability for photoelectrons, the LASGA readout system requires a low-noise readout electronics system to achieve a high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). [Purpose] This study aims to design an electronics prototype system with high dynamic range and low noise properties. [Methods] A 64-channel charge sensitive ASIC (VA140) produced by the IDEAS Inc. was used in front-end electronics board. And an Altera cyclone field-programmable gate array (FPGA) (EP3C25Q240C8) was employed to control the ASIC, analog to digital converter (ADC) and digital to analog converter (DAC) chips in data acquisition board. The digitalized detector signal was packaged in field-programmable gate array (FPGA) and sent to personal computer (PC) for processing. [Results] The performance of the electronics prototype was tested, while the minimum ionizing particles (MIPs) response of LaBr3 with cosmic ray muon was carried out as well. The test results showed that the noise level of the electronics system (@ 0 pF) and the detection system (connected with PD) at room temperature was about 600 e~- and 1 800 e~- respectively. And there was a good linearity in the range of 0-200 fC. The integral nonlinearity (INL) of 126 channels in the range of 0-180 fC was better than 3%. [Conclusion] Single bromide lanthanum unit can measure the energy deposited linearly up to 250 MeV. The dynamic range and SNR of the prototype system could fully meet the project's requirements.
语种	英语
WOS记录号	CSCD:6186689
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://libir.pmo.ac.cn/handle/332002/18045]
专题	中国科学院紫金山天文台
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Chen Wei,Guo Jianhua,Wang Shen. Prototype design of electronics readout system for solar gamma-ray spectrometer's high energy deposited[J]. Nuclear Techniques（核技术）,2018,41(2):20402.
APA	Chen Wei,Guo Jianhua,&Wang Shen.(2018).Prototype design of electronics readout system for solar gamma-ray spectrometer's high energy deposited.Nuclear Techniques（核技术）,41(2),20402.
MLA	Chen Wei,et al."Prototype design of electronics readout system for solar gamma-ray spectrometer's high energy deposited".Nuclear Techniques（核技术） 41.2(2018):20402.