Cold Electronics System Development for ProtoDUNE-SP and SBND LAr TPC

Liu, F.; Bishai, M.; Chen, H.; DrAndragora, A.; Fried, J.; Gao, Shanshan; Hou, W.; Li, S.; Radeka, V.; Vernon, E.; Worcester, E.; Worcester, M.; Yethiraj, Krithika; Yu, B. X.; Zhang, J.; Deng, Zhi; Liu, Yanfei

doi:10.1109/nssmic.2017.8533137

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“…However, one key difference is that MicroBooNE's front-end electronics are mounted directly on the APA support frames-i.e., within the LAr environment. This has necessitated the development of "cold electronics" with low noise and power consumption (thereby minimising heat output), but in return, the short distance and cryogenic environment between the wires and electronics significantly reduces the readout noise, therefore increasing the signal-to-noise ratio [12] (additional general advantages of using cold front-end electronics over off-detector systems are presented in [30]). Custom "cold cables" carry signals from the front-end electronics out of the cryostat via the signal feedthrough chimneys.…”

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“…Like MicroBooNE, SBND utilises a combination of cold and warm electronics in its readout system [30]. Initial signal collection, amplification and digitisation is performed by ASICs located on cold front-end motherboards that are mounted on the APAs within the LAr environment, with one motherboard collating signals from 128 wires.…”

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“…Initial signal collection, amplification and digitisation is performed by ASICs located on cold front-end motherboards that are mounted on the APAs within the LAr environment, with one motherboard collating signals from 128 wires. The design of these motherboards is in part based on similar cold electronics devices developed specifically for the single-phase ProtoDUNE detector, but commercial off-the-shelf components are also used in SBND [30]. The signals from the front-end motherboards are carried via the cryostat's four signal feedthrough flanges to "warm interface electronics crates" (WIECs), one of which is mounted directly to the external side of each feedthrough.…”

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Review of Liquid Argon Detector Technologies in the Neutrino Sector

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2021

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Liquid Argon (LAr) is one of the most widely used scintillators in particle detection, due to its low cost, high availability and excellent scintillation properties. A large number of experiments in the neutrino sector are based around using LAr in one or more Time Projection Chambers (TPCs), leading to high resolution three-dimensional particle reconstruction. In this paper, we review and summarise a number of these Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (LArTPC) experiments, and briefly describe the specific technologies that they currently employ. This includes single phase LAr experiments (ICARUS T600, MicroBooNE, SBND, LArIAT, DUNE-SP, ProtoDUNE-SP, ArgonCube and Vertical Drift) and dual phase LAr experiments (DUNE-DP, WA105, ProtoDUNE-DP and ARIADNE). We also discuss some new avenues of research in the field of LArTPC readout, which show potential for wide-scale use in the near future.

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2021

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“…This has necessitated the development of "cold electronics" with low noise and power consumption (thereby minimising heat output), but in return, the short distance and cryogenic environment between the wires and electronics significantly reduces the readout noise, therefore increasing the signal-to-noise ratio [12]. (Additional general advantages of using cold front-end electronics over off-detector systems are presented in [30].) Custom "cold cables" carry signals from the front-end electronics out of the cryostat via the signal feedthrough chimneys.…”

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“…Like MicroBooNE, SBND utilises a combination of cold and warm electronics in its readout system [30]. Initial signal collection, amplification and digitisation is performed by ASICs located on cold front-end motherboards that are mounted on the APAs within the LAr environment, with 1 motherboard collating signals from 128 wires.…”

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Review of Liquid Argon Detector Technologies in the Neutrino Sector

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Mavrokoridis

2021

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Liquid Argon (LAr) is one of the most widely used scintillators in particle detection, due to its low cost, high availability and excellent scintillation properties. A large number of experiments in the neutrino sector are based around using LAr in one or more Time Projection Chambers (TPCs), leading to high resolution three-dimensional particle reconstruction. In this paper, we review and summarise a number of these LArTPC experiments, and briefly describe the specific technologies that they currently employ. This includes single phase LAr experiments (ICARUS T600, MicroBooNE, SBND, LArIAT, DUNE-SP, ProtoDUNE-SP, ArgonCube and Vertical Drift) and dual phase LAr experiments (DUNE-DP, WA105, ProtoDUNE-DP and ARIADNE). We also discuss some new avenues of research in the field of LArTPC readout, which show potential for wide-scale use in the near future.

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Evaluation and lifetime study of a cryogenic SAR ADC for HPGe detectors in low-background physics experiments

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A: Cryogenic ADCs can be a promising solution for ton-scale HPGe detectors for dark matter and neutrino-less double beta decay experiments for improved signal integrity and decreased cables and penetrations. This paper presents the characterization and lifetime study of a SAR ADC at liquid nitrogen temperature for CDEX and future LEGEND experiments. The chip is implemented in standard 65 nm CMOS process. It works well at liquid nitrogen temperature with proper biasing. The power consumptions of the SAR ADC are measured to be 6.1 mW and 6.5 mW at 300 K and 77 K respectively. The ENOB of the ADC is decreased from 8.94 bits at 300 K to 8.72 bits at 77 K at 100 MS/s sampling rate. For reasons of efficiency and economics, the lifetime of the cryogenic operation circuits must be in excess tens of years. Hot carrier effect (HCE) is the dominate mechanism that substantially affects the device lifetime at cryogenic temperature and the accelerated lifetime study has also been conducted. The predicted lifetime is ∼ 5.7 × 10 4 years at 1.24 V operation at 77 K, which means the ADC is cryogenic qualified to remain outside of the HCE degradation. K: Analogue electronic circuits; Cryogenics; Electronic detector readout concepts (solidstate); Front-end electronics for detector readout 1Corresponding author.

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Cold Electronics System Development for ProtoDUNE-SP and SBND LAr TPC

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Review of Liquid Argon Detector Technologies in the Neutrino Sector

Review of Liquid Argon Detector Technologies in the Neutrino Sector

Review of Liquid Argon Detector Technologies in the Neutrino Sector

Evaluation and lifetime study of a cryogenic SAR ADC for HPGe detectors in low-background physics experiments

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