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Design of a constant fraction discriminator for the VFAT3 front-end ASIC of the CMS GEM detector

  • D. Abbaneo
  • , M. Abbas
  • , M. Abbrescia
  • , A. A. Abdelalim
  • , M. Abi Akl
  • , O. Aboamer
  • , D. Acosta
  • , A. Ahmad
  • , W. Ahmed
  • , W. Ahmed
  • , A. Aleksandrov
  • , R. Aly
  • , P. Altieri
  • , C. Asawatangtrakuldee
  • , P. Aspell
  • , Y. Assran
  • , I. Awan
  • , S. Bally
  • , Y. Ban
  • , S. Banerjee
  • V. Barashko, P. Barria, G. Bencze, N. Beni, L. Benussi, V. Bhopatkar, S. Bianco, J. Bos, O. Bouhali, A. Braghieri, S. Braibant, S. Buontempo, C. Calabria, M. Caponero, C. Caputo, F. Cassese, A. Castaneda, S. Cauwenbergh, F. R. Cavallo, A. Celik, M. Choi, S. Choi, J. Christiansen, A. Cimmino, S. Colafranceschi, A. Colaleo, A. Conde Garcia, S. Czellar, M. M. Dabrowski, G. De Lentdecker, R. De Oliveira, G. De Robertis, S. Dildick, B. Dorney, W. Elmetenawee, G. Endroczi, F. Errico, A. Fenyvesi, S. Ferry, I. Furic, P. Giacomelli, J. Gilmore, V. Golovtsov, L. Guiducci, F. Guilloux, A. Gutierrez, R. M. Hadjiiska, A. Hassan, J. Hauser, K. Hoepfner, M. Hohlmann, H. Hoorani, P. Iaydjiev, Y. G. Jeng, T. Kamon, P. Karchin, A. Korytov, S. Krutelyov, A. Kumar, H. Kim, J. Lee, T. Lenzi, L. Litov, F. Loddo*, A. Madorsky, T. Maerschalk, M. Maggi, A. Magnani, P. K. Mal, K. Mandal, A. Marchioro, A. Marinov, R. Masod, N. Majumdar, J. A. Merlin, G. Mitselmakher, A. K. Mohanty, S. Mohamed, A. Mohapatra, J. Molnar, S. Muhammad, S. Mukhopadhyay, M. Naimuddin, S. Nuzzo, E. Oliveri, L. M. Pant, P. Paolucci, I. Park, G. Passeggio, B. Pavlov, B. Philipps, D. Piccolo, H. Postema, A. Puig Baranac, A. Radi, R. Radogna, G. Raffone, A. Ranieri, G. Rashevski, C. Riccardi, M. Rodozov, A. Rodrigues, L. Ropelewski, S. Roychowdhury, G. Ryu, M. S. Ryu, A. Safonov, S. Salva, G. Saviano, A. Sharma, A. Sharma, R. Sharma, A. H. Shah, M. Shopova, J. Sturdy, G. Sultanov, S. K. Swain, Z. Szillasi, J. Talvitie, C. Tamma, A. Tatarinov, T. Tuuva, M. Tytgat, I. Vai, M. Van Stenis, R. Venditti, E. Verhagen, P. Verwilligen, P. Vitulo, S. Volkov, A. Vorobyev, D. Wang, M. Wang, U. Yang, Y. Yang, R. Yonamine, N. Zaganidis, F. Zenoni, A. Zhang
*Corresponding author for this work
  • CERN
  • University of Bari
  • Helwan University
  • Texas A&M University at Qatar
  • Academy of Scientific Research and Technology
  • University of Florida
  • Quaid-I-Azam University
  • Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
  • Peking University
  • Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics
  • Université libre de Bruxelles
  • Hungarian Academy of Sciences
  • National Institute for Nuclear Physics
  • Florida Institute of Technology
  • University of Pavia
  • University of Bologna
  • Ghent University
  • Texas A&M University
  • University of Seoul
  • Korea University
  • RAS - Saint Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute
  • CEA Saclay
  • Wayne State University
  • University of California at Los Angeles
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  • University of Delhi
  • Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski
  • National Institute of Science Education and Research
  • Institut Pluridisciplinaire - Hubert Curien (IPHC)
  • Bhabha Atomic Research Centre
  • Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology
  • Seoul National University

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Abstract

In this work the design of a constant fraction discriminator (CFD) to be used in the VFAT3 chip for the read-out of the triple-GEM detectors of the CMS experiment, is described. A prototype chip containing 8 CFDs was implemented using 130 nm CMOS technology and test results are shown.

Original languageEnglish
Article numberC01023
JournalJournal of Instrumentation
Volume11
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 14 Jan 2016
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Analogue electronic circuits
  • Front-end electronics for detector readout
  • VLSI circuits

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