Microscope Electronics

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The GlueX experiment will use a 9 GeV linearly polarized photon beam to search for mesons with gluonic excitations, and measure their spectrum and couplings. To create a well-collimated photon beam, the 12 GeV electron beam from CEBAF will pass through a 20um thick diamond wafer and undergo coherent bremsstrahlung. In order to know the energy of the photon the post-bremsstrahlung electron energy must be measured. A magnet is used to spatially separate the electrons corresponding to their energy which are incident on scintillating fibers. These fibers are located to provide 4 MeV energy resolution and propagate the signal to Silicon Photomultiplier (SiPM) counters that are mounted on custom high speed circuit boards. The scintillating fibers and electronics are housed in a light-sealed enclosure called the Tagger Microscope, which the research group at the University of Connecticut have designed to measure the post-bremsstrahlung electron energy, and therefore, the emitted photon energy.


Preamplifier

The purpose of the preamplifier is to receive signals from the scintillating fibers on the SiPMs and amplify the signal. These boards have two stages, the amplifying and summing circuits. In the first amplifying circuit the 15 SiPMs are individually amplified and can be independently readout. The summing circuit takes groups of 5 individual SiPM channels and sums the signals together into a summed output. This summing circuit also has the capability to change the gain of the amplified signal which allows for the study of cosmic rays and to see the dark rate of the SiPM.

[Note: Low gain mode is set to 5V and high gain mode is set to 10V]

Final Production

Preamplifier Version 2.0


Digital Control Board

The control board is designed to regulate the bias voltages for the SiPMs and to communicate via ethernet to a remote computer. It is also designed to measure the temperature of the preamplifier and adjust the gain of the summing circuit of the preamplifier.

Final Production


Backplane

The backplane is designed to be the intermediate board between the control and preamplifier boards. The preamplifier will be attached on the inside of the tagger microscope whereas the control board will be mounted outside. The backplane will allow signals to be sent between the other two boards as well as supply the power required to run all of the boards. The cable outputs for the SiPM signals are located on the backplane.

Final Production


Power Supply Requirements

We require the following voltages on the boards: ~72V for biasing, 5.75V for VCC, +5V. Therefore, a power supply with 100V, 10V, and 5V channels, or 100V, and 2x 10V channels, is required.

The programming resolution for each channel should be:

  • 100V: 0.001V where a typical voltage is 71.770V.
  • 10V: 0.01V where a typical voltage is 5.75V.
  • 5V/10V: 0.01 where a typical voltage is 5.00V.

The accuracy for each of these channels should be 0.02%

The power required for each of these channels is as follows:

  • 100V: 1W total for the 34 boards x 15 channels/board
  • 10V: 40W total for all of the boards
  • 5V/10V: 15W total for all of the boards

The ripple for 0.1Hz-10Hz can be 10mV and for 10Hz-20MHz the ripple should be around 5mV. These values are based on the gain curve below and the requirement that the time scale of the ripple be less than 50ps. Converting to voltage from picoseconds can be done using a linear approximation of the rising edge of a typical pulse (300mV peak height, ~2ns rise time). The spec for the 10Hz-20MHz range is set by the gain curve peak around 80kHz.

 

Hamamatsu MPPC SiPMs


Pulse Generator


Presentations


Past Work

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