Studies on digital sampling techniques

digital sampling

Working Group:
L.Bardelli, M.Bini, L.Carraresi, R.Ciaranfi, G.Pasquali, G.Poggi, N.Taccetti

			Introduction and some results
			List of Publications and Presentations.
			Work in Progress

Introduction and some results

The identification of particles emitted in nuclear reactions in a wide range of kinetic energy, charge and, possibly, mass is an important feature requested by heavy ion experiments. The research in this field is mainly divided in two branches, not necessarily separated, one devoted to the development of new detectors, and the other concerning new methods of analysis. Modern electronic sampling techniques (for example pipelining) have made it possible to design commercial high resolution (greater than 10 bit) fast sampling analog to digital converters (ADC) which permit to retain the high precision of the standard analog methods (for instance for the energy measurement), while the detailed information achievable with signal sampling can be used in newly designed pulse shape discrimination applications. This may lead not only to better identification performances, but can also reduce the complexity of the electronics in high granularity experiments. In our work, digital sampling and identification methods are been developed and tested, mainly with scintillation and solid state detectors.

A complete description of our work is given in our list of Publications and Presentations..

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Publications and Presentations (from most recent to older ones):

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Work in progress

These are some of the items we are now working on:

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