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== Hamamatsu MPPC SiPMs ==
 
== Hamamatsu MPPC SiPMs ==

Revision as of 16:55, 21 November 2013

Electronics

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

Current draw per board per power supply channel

VCC (5.75V) +5V Bias
1 backplane 0.01A <0.00 A <0.00 A
1 back + 1 ctrl 0.01 A 0.14 A <0.00 A
1 back + 1 ctrl + 1 preamp 0.16 A 0.14 A <0.00 A
1 back + 3 ctrl + 6 preamp 0.91 A 0.42 A <0.00 A
6 back + 17 ctrl + 34 preamp 5.46 A 2.52 A <0.00 A
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Total power 31.395 W 12.6 W
  • 1mV peak-to-peak ripple should suffice for our needs.
  • 10mV resolution is sufficient.
  • Computer connection capability would be good for remote control but not needed.

Hamamatsu MPPC SiPMs


Pulse Generator


Presentations


Past Work

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