Development of a high-rate scalable readout system for gaseous detectors
L. Scharenberg, J. Bortfeldt, F. Brunbauer, M.J. Christensen, K. Desch, K.J. Flöthner, F. García, D. Janssens, J. Kamiński, M. Lisowska, M. Lupberger, H. Müller, E. Oliveri, G. Orlandini, D. Pfeiffer, L. Ropelewski, Alexandru Rusu, J. Samarati, Patrick Schwäbig, M. van Stenis, R. Veenhof
Abstract
Abstract The RD51 collaboration developed the Scalable Readout System (SRS) as part of its R&D activities on Micro-Pattern Gaseous Detectors. This common multi-purpose readout system allows to read out small R&D detectors (0.2k channels) up to mid-sized experiments with multiple detectors (2.5k to 5k channels). To cope with increased demands on detectors, electronics and readout speed, a new front-end ASIC—the VMM3a—was integrated into the SRS. This led to the development of a scalable, self-triggered high-rate readout system that provides energy, space and time information of the interacting particles at the same time.