tackling the search for lepton flavor violation with ghz waveform digitizing using the drs chip

Tackling the search forLepton Flavor Violation

with GHz waveform digitizing using the DRS chip

Stefan RittPaul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland

Feb. 26th, 2008 Fermilab 2

Agenda

DRS2

DRS3

DRS1MEG Experiment searchingfor e down to 10-13

MotivationWhy should we search for e ?


The Standard ModelFermions (Matter)

Quarks

uup

ccharm

ttop

ddown

sstrange

bbottom

Leptons

eelectronneutrino

muon

neutrino

tau

neutrino

eelectron

muon

tau

Bosons

photon

Force carriers

ggluon

WW boson

ZZ boson Higgs*

boson

*) Yet to be confirmedGeneration I II III


The success of the SM• The SM has been proven to be extremely successful since

1970’s• Simplicity (6 quarks explain >40 mesons and baryons)• Explains all interactions in current accelerator particle

physics• Predicted many particles (most prominent W, Z )

• Limitations of the SM• Currently contains 19 (+10) free parameters such as

particle (neutrino) masses• Does not explain cosmological observation

such as Dark Matter and Matter/Antimatter Asymmetry

CDF

Today’s goal is to look for physics beyond the standard

model


Beyond the SM

Find New PhysicsBeyond the SM

High Energy Frontier• Produce heavy new particles directly• Heavy particles need large colliders• Complex detectors

High Precision Frontier• Look for small deviations from SM

(g-2) , CKM unitarity• Look for forbidden decays• Requires high precision at low energy


•Discovery: 1936 in cosmic radiation•Mass: 105 MeV/c2

•Mean lifetime: 2.2 s

The MuonSeth Neddermeyer

Carl Anderson

e

-

W- e-

e

e

e

e

e ≈ 100%

0.014

< 10-11

led to Lepton Flavor Conservationas “accidental” symmetry


LFV and Neutrino Oscillations

Neutrino Oscillations Neutrino mass e possible even in the SM

W-

ee-

SM

604

4B 10R( )W

e mm

LFV in the charged sector is forbidden in the Standard Model

mixing


LFV in SUSY• While LFV is forbidden in SM, it is possible in SUSY

W-

ee-

e-0~

~e~

SM

604

4B 10R( )W

e mm

SUSYBR( )e

4

5 2

SUS2

Y

2 100 GeV10 tanemmm

≈ 10-12

Current experimental limit: BR( e ) < 10-11

2~~em


History of LFV searches• Long history dating back to 1947!

• Best present limits:

• 1.2 x 10-11 (MEGA)

• Ti → eTi < 7 x 10-13 (SINDRUM II)

• → eee < 1 x 10-12 (SINDRUM II)

• MEG Experiment aims at 10-13

• Improvements linked to advancein technology

1940 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010

10-1

10-2

10-3

10-4

10-5

10-6

10-7

10-6

10-9

10-10

10-11

10-12

10-13

10-14

10-15

→ e → eA → eee

MEG

SUSY SU(5)BR( e ) = 10-13

Ti eTi = 4x10-16

BR( eee) = 6x10-16

cosmic

stopped

beams

stopped


Current SUSY predictions

“Supersymmetric parameterspace accessible by

LHC”W. Buchmueller, DESY, priv.

comm.

current limit

MEG goal

1) J. Hisano et al., Phys. Lett. B391 (1997) 3412) MEGA collaboration, hep-ex/9905013

ft(M)=2.4 >0 Ml=50GeV 1)

tan

Experimental MethodHow to detect e ?


Decay topology e

e

e

180º

→ e signal very clean• Eg = Ee = 52.8 MeV• e = 180º• e and in time

52.8 MeV

52.8 MeV

10 20 30 40 50 60 E[MeV]

N

52.8 MeV

10 20 30 40 50 60 Ee[MeV]

N

52.8 MeV


“Accidental” Background

e

e

180º

→ e signal very clean• Eg = Ee = 52.8 MeV• e = 180º• e and in time

e

e

e

e

Annihilationin flight

Background

Good energy resolutionGood spatial resolution

Excellent timing resolutionGood pile-up rejection


Previous Experiments

Exp./Lab

Author Year Ee/Ee %FWHM

E/E %FWHM

te

(ns)

e (mrad)

Inst. Stop rate (s-1)

Duty cycle (%)

Result

SIN (PSI)

A. Van der Schaaf

1977 8.7 9.3 1.4 - (4..6) x 105 100 < 1.0 10-9

TRIUMFP.

Depommier1977 10 8.7 6.7 - 2 x 105 100 < 3.6 10-9

LANLW.W.

Kinnison1979 8.8 8 1.9 37 2.4 x 105 6.4 < 1.7 10-10

Crystal Box

R.D. Bolton 1986 8 8 1.3 87 4 x 105 (6..9) < 4.9 10-11

MEGA M.L. Brooks 1999 1.2 4.5 1.6 17 2.5 x 108 (6..7) < 1.2 10-11

MEG ? ? ? ? ? ? ~ 10-13

How can we achieve a quantum step in detector technology?


Collaboration

~70 People (40 FTEs) from five countries


Paul Scherrer Institute

Swiss Light Source

Proton Accelerator


PSI Proton Accelerator


MEG beam line

+

R ~ 1.1x108 +/s at experiment

~ 10.9 mm

e+

+


Liquid Xenon Calorimeter• Calorimeter: Measure Energy, Position

and Time through scintillation light only• Liquid Xenon has high Z and homogeneity• ~900 l (3t) Xenon with 848 PMTs

(quartz window, immersed)• Cryogenics required: -120°C … -108°• Extremely high purity necessary:

1 ppm H20 absorbs 90% of light• Currently largest LXe detector in the

world: Lots of pioneering work necessary

Liq. Xe

H.V.

Vacuumfor thermal insulation

Al Honeycombwindow

PMT

Refrigerator

Cooling pipe

Signals

fillerPlastic

1.5m


• Use GEANT to carefully study detector

• Optimize placement of PMTs according to MC results


The complete MEG detector

1m

e+

Liq. Xe Scintilla tionDetector

Drift Chamber

Liq. Xe ScintillationDetector

e+

Tim ing Counter

Stopping TargetThin S uperconducting Coil

M uon Beam

Drift C hamber


Current resolution estimates

Exp./Lab

Author Year Ee/Ee %FWH

M

E/E %FWHM

te (ns)

e (mrad)

Inst. Stop rate (s-1)

Duty cycle (%)

Result

SIN (PSI)

A. Van der Schaaf

1977 8.7 9.3 1.4 - (4..6) x 105 100 < 1.0 10-9

TRIUMFP.

Depommier1977 10 8.7 6.7 - 2 x 105 100 < 3.6 10-9

LANLW.W.

Kinnison1979 8.8 8 1.9 37 2.4 x 105 6.4 < 1.7 10-10

Crystal Box

R.D. Bolton 1986 8 8 1.3 87 4 x 105 (6..9) < 4.9 10-11

MEGA M.L. Brooks 1999 1.2 4.5 1.6 17 2.5 x 108 (6..7) < 1.2 10-11

MEG 2008 0.8 4.3 0.18 18 3 x 107 100 ~ 10-13


MEG Current Status• Goal: Produce “significant” result before LHC• R & D phase took longer than anticipated• Detector has been completed by the

end of 2007• Expected sensitivity in 2008: 2 x 10-12

(current limit: 1 x 10-11)

R&D

199920002001200220032004200520062007200820092010

EngineeringData

Taking

Set-up

http://meg.psi.ch


Pile-up in the DC system• Pile-up can severely degrade the experiment performance (

MEGA Experiment) !• Traditional electronics cannot detect pile-up

TDC

Amplifier Discriminator Measure Time

Need fullwaveform digitization

> 100 MHz to reject pile-up

Moving average baseline

hit

s


Beam induced background

108 /s produce 108 e+/s produce 108 /s

Cable ductsfor Drift Chamber


Pile-up in the LXe calorimeter

n

E[MeV]50 51 52

e

radiativemuondecay

t

PMTsum

e

(e)2 +

e

51.5 MeV

0.511 MeV

• ’s hitting different parts of LXe can be separated if > 2 PMTs apart (15 cm)

• Timely separated ’s need waveform digitizing > 300 MHz

• If waveform digitizing gives timing <100ps, no TDCs are needed

~100ns


• Need 500 MHz 12 bit digitization for Drift Chamber system• Need 2 GHz 12 bit digitization for Xenon Calorimeter +

Timing Counters• Need 3000 Channels• At affordable price

Requirements summary

Solution: Develop own“Switched Capacitor Array” Chip


The Domino Principle

Shift RegisterClock

IN

Out

“Time stretcher” GHz MHz

Waveform stored

Inverter “Domino” ring chain0.2-2 ns

FADC 33 MHz

Keep Domino wave running in a circular fashion and stop by trigger Domino Ring Sampler (DRS)


Switched Capacitor Array

•Cons• No continuous acquisition• No precise timing• External (commercial) FADC needed

•Pros• High speed (~5 GHz) high resolution (~12 bit equiv.)

• High channel density (12 channels on 5x5 mm2)• Low power (10 mW / channel)• Low cost (< 100$ / channel incl. VME board)

t t t t t


Folded Layout

Linear inverter chain causes non-linearity


“Tail Biting”

enable

1 2 3 4

1

2

3

4

speed


Sample readout

0.2 pF 20 pF

DRS1Tiny signal

TemperatureDependence

~kT

DRS2I

DRS3


DRS3• Fabricated in 0.25 m

1P5M MMC process(UMC), 5 x 5 mm2, radiation hard

• 12 ch. each 1024 bins,6 ch. 2048, …, 1 ch. 12288

• Sampling speed 10 MHz … 5 GHz

• Readout speed 33 MHz, multiplexedor in parallel

• 50 prototypes receivedin July ‘06

CHANNEL 0IN0+IN0-

CHANNEL 1IN1+IN1-

CHANNEL 2IN2+IN2-

CHANNEL 3IN3+IN3-

CHANNEL 4IN4+IN4-

CHANNEL 5IN5+IN5-

CHANNEL 6IN6+IN6-

CHANNEL 7IN7+IN7-

CHANNEL 8IN8+IN8-

CHANNEL 9IN9+IN9-

CHANNEL 10IN10+IN10-

CHANNEL 11

STOP SH IFT REGISTER

READ SHIFT REGISTER

IN11+IN11-

WSRCLKSRIN

WSRO UTSRLO AD

RSRLOAD

WR

ITE

SH

IFT

RE

GIS

TER

DENABLEDW R ITEDSPEEDDM ODE

DOMINO WAVE CIR CUIT

DG ND

AGND

DVDD

AVDD

DTAP A0 A1 A2 A3

M UX

EN

AB

LE

M UXOUT /OUT0

OU T1

OU T2

OU T3

OU T4

OU T5

OU T6

OU T7

OU T8

OU T9

OU T10

OU T11BIASRO FS

SSROUT

RSRCLKRSRRST

RSROU T


VME Board32

cha

nnel

s inp

ut

General purpose VPC board built at PSI

40 MHz 12 bit FADC USB adapter

board


Bandwidth + LinearityReadout chain shows excellent linearity from 0.1V … 1.1V @ 33 MHz readout

Analog Bandwidth is currently limited by high resistance of on-chip signal bus, will be increased significantly with DRS4

AM

PLIT

UE

[dB

]

FREQUENCY [MHz]1 10 100

-10

-9

-8

-7

-6

-5

-4

-3

-2

-1

0

1

2

450 MHz (-3dB)

NO

NLI

NEA

RIT

Y [m

V]

ANALOG OUTPUT [V]0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1 1.2

-2

-1

0

1

2

ROFS = 0.95 VBIAS = 0.70 V

0.5 mV max.


Signal-to-noise ratio

“Fixed pattern” offset error of 5 mV RMScan be reduced to 0.35 mV by offsetcorrection in FPGA

SNR:

1 V linear range / 0.35 mV = 69 dB (11.5 bits)

AN

ALO

G O

UTP

UT [V

]

BIN NUMBER0 200 400 600 800 1000

0.48

0.49

0.5

0.51

0.52

Crosstalk from trigger signal

OC

CU

REN

CE

OUTPUT VOLTAGE [V]0.48 0.49 0.5 0.51 0.520

20

40

60

80

100

120

140

160

180

200

OC

CU

REN

CE

OUTPUT VOLTAGE [V]0.48 0.49 0.5 0.51 0.520

20

40

60

80

100

120

140

160

180

200

OffsetCorrection


12 bit resolutionW

AVEF

OR

M [V

]

TIME [ns]0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 160 180 200

0

0.1

0.2

0.3

0.4

0.5

0.6

0.7

0.8

0.9

1

11.5 bits effective resolution <8 bits effective resolution


Sampling speed

PLL

ReferenceClock (1-4 MHz)

Vspeed

~200 psec~200 psec

• Unstabilized jitter: ~70ps / turn• Temperature coefficient: 500ps / ºC

f SAM

P[G

Hz]

DSPEED [V]0 0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5

0

1

2

3

4

5

6

30°C

50°C

R. Paoletti, N. Turini, R. Pegna, MAGIC collaboration


How far can we go?• Maximal sampling speed with current technologies

• DRS4: 5.5 GHz in favor of linearity and flexibility • 0.250 m technology maximum: 8 GHz• 0.130 m technology maximum: 15 GHz

• Timing in O(10ps) region is tough• Sampling has to be close to source (cable effect)• TDCs can work in this region (vernier method), but what

about discriminator?• Probably only possible with analog sampling

threshold level

firstelectrons

noise timing jitter


Timing Reference

signal

20 MHz Reference clock

PMT hit

Domino stops aftertrigger latency

8 in

puts

shift registerReferenceclock

domino wave

MUX

• Calibrate inter-cell t’s for each chip• 200 ps uncertainty using PLL• 25 ps uncertainty for timing relative to edge


What timing can be obtained?

• Detailed studies by G. Varner1) for LAB3 chip

• Bin-by-bin calibration using a 500 MHz sine wave

• Accuracy after calibration: 20 ps

1) G. Varner et al., Nucl.Instrum.Meth. A583, 447 (2007)

1ns


On-chip PLL

PLL

ReferenceClock

fclk = fsamp / 2048

Vspeed

• On-chip PLL should show smaller phase jitter• If <100ps, no clock calibration required

loop

filte

r

DRS4

Simulation:


Comparison with other chipsMATACQ

D. BretonLABRADORG. Varner

DRS3

Bandwidth (-3db) 300 MHz > 1000 MHz 450 MHzSampling frequency

1 or 2 GHz 10 MHz … 3.5 GHz

10 MHz … 5 GHz

Full scale range ±0.5 V +0.4 …2.1 V +0.1 … 1.1VEffective #bits 12 bit 10 bit 12 bitSample points 1 x 2520 9 x 256 12 x 1024Channel per board

4 N/A 32

Digitization 5 MHz N/A 33 MHzReadout dead time

650 s 150 s 3 s – 370 s

Integral nonlinearity

± 0.1 % ± 0.1 % ± 0.05%

Radiation hard No No Yes (chip)Board V1729

(CAEN)- planned (CAEN)

Waveform AnalysisWhat can we learn from acquired waveforms?


On-line waveform display

click

templatefit

pedestalhisto

848PMTs

“virtual oscilloscope”


QT Algorithm

originalwaveform

smoothed anddifferentiated (Difference Of

Samples)Threshold in DOS

Region for pedestal

evaluation

integration area

t• Inspired by H1 Fast Track Trigger (A.

Schnöning, Desy & ETH)• Difference of Samples (= 1st derivation)• Hit region defined when DOS is above

threshold• Integration of original signal in hit region• Pedestal evaluated in region before hit• Time interpolated using maximum value

and two neighbor values in LUT 1ns resolution for 10ns sampling time


Pulse shape discrimination

)tt[...]θ.. )tθ(td)/τt(te

/τ)t(te i/τ)t(teAV(t) r00

000

CsB

Leading edge Decay time AC-coupling Reflections


-distribution

= 21 ns = 34 ns

Waveforms can be clearly

distinguished


Coherent noise

i Vi (t)All PMTs

Pedestal average

Charge integration

• Found some coherent low frequency (~MHz) noise

• Energy resolution dramatically improved by properly subtracting the sinusoidal background

• Usage of “dead” channels for baseline estimation


Pileup recognition

original

derivativet = 15ns

E1 E2

T 8ns

T 10ns

T 15ns

T 50ns

T 100ns

211EE

E

MC simulation

Rule of thumb: Pileup can be detected if T ~ rise-time of signals


Crosstalk elimination Crosstalk removal by subtracting empty channel

Hit Hit

subtract


Spurious Noise Problem• Found “sometimes” a high frequency

“ring” on all channels• 40 MHz, ~20 mV, 1kHz repetition• Finally identified the liquid xenon

pump as the source• This noise can screw up timing

for rare events• Without waveform digitizing, this

would have been very hard todebug


Template Fit• Determine “standard” PMT pulse by

averaging over many events “Template”• Find hit in waveform• Shift (“TDC”) and scale (“ADC”)

template to hit• Minimize 2

• Compare fit with waveform• Repeat if above threshold

• Store ADC & TDC values

Experiment500 MHz sampling


High pass filtering

originalwaveform

template fit

after optimized high pass FIR filter

integrationarea

• Get rid ofbaseline (lowfrequency)noise

• Improveresolutionsignificantly


Latc

h

Latc

h

Latc

h

Latc

h

Latc

h

Baseline Subtraction

BaselineSubtraction

Latc

h12 bit

100 MHz Clock

-+

<thr

+

-

BaselineRegister

Baselinesubtracted

signal LUT12x12

Calibrated and

linearized signal


Latc

h

Latc

h

Latc

h

Latc

h

Constant Fraction Discr.

Latc

h12 bit

Clock

+

+

MULT

Latc

h

0

&<0

Delayedsignal

Invertedsignal

Sum


Data Reduction• Zero suppression: hit if max. value > n

x (baseline)

• Readout window: start / width in respect to trigger

• Pile-up flag: Zero-crossings of first derivation

• Re-binning 4:1, 8:1, 16:1

• ADC: Numerical integral of hit over baseline

• TDC: Only simple threshold (usable to recognize accidentals) and time-over-threshold

MEG: Applying to 94% of 100 Hz dataKeeping only 6 Hz of waveforms

TOT

0.5 ns bins 4 ns bins


Huffman encodingDiff Bin. Code-1 00

0 01

1 10

2 11

Diff Bin. Code0 011 100 01-1 001 100 010 01-1 000 010 01

0

1

-1

2

0.6

0.2

0.2

00.2

0.4

1

0

1

10

11110

111

20 16

Huffman110

0

10

111

Huffman0100

1101000

11000

-10

-5

0

5

10

15

1

signal

diff


Where to perform waveform analysis?

• Switching from ADC/TDC to ~GHz waveform digitization increases amount of data by ~1000x

• Many algorithms suitable for on-board (FPGA) processing• Charge integration and time estimation (“QT”)• Zero-suppression, re-binning, Huffman encoding• Basic pile-up recognition (zero-crossings of derivative)

• Algorithms for embedded CPUs or PC farms• Inter-channel cross-talk removal• Template fit (floating point)

DRS FPGAFrontEndPC

Off-line Analysis


DAQ System Principle

Active Splitter

Drift Chamber Liquid Xenon Calorimeter Timing Counter

WaveformDigitizing

Trigger

TriggerEvent number

Event type

Busy

Rack PCRack PCRack PCRack PCRack PC

opticallink

(SIS3100)

Rack PCRack PCRack PCRack PC

Event Builder

Switch

GBit Ethernet

LVDS parallel bus

VME VME


Multi-threading model

VMETransferThread

CalibrationThread

CalibrationThread

CalibrationThread

CalibrationThread

CollectorThread

VME

Round-Robindistribution

Network

Zero-copy ring

buffers


Optimal rate with 4 calibration threads


DAQ System• Use waveform digitization

(500 MHz/2 GHz) on all channels

• Waveform pre-analysis directly in online cluster (zero suppression, calibration) using multi-threading

• MIDAS DAQ Software

• Data reduction: 900 MB/s 5 MB/s

• Data amount: 100 TB/year

2000 channelswaveform digitizing

DAQ cluster

Advanced TopicsReduced dead time, integrated triggering


“Residual charge” problem

R

“Ghost pulse”2% @ 2 GHz

After sampling a pulse, some residual charge remains in the capacitors on the next turn and can mimic wrong pulsesSolution: Clear before write

write clear Implementedin DRS4


ROI readout mode

readout shift register

Triggerstop

normal trigger stop after latency

Delay

delayed trigger stop

Patent pending!

33 MHz

e.g. 100 samples @ 33 MHz 3 us dead time

(2.5 ns / sample @ 12 channels)


Daisy-chaining of channels

Channel 0 – 1024 cells








Domino Wave Generation

DRS4 can be partitioned in: 8x1024, 4x2048, 2x4096, 1x8192 cells

1

0

1

0

1

0

1

0

1

0

1

0

1

0

1

0

1

0

0

0

0

0

0

0


Interleaved samplingde

lays

(200

ps/8

= 2

5ps)

G. Varner et al., Nucl.Instrum.Meth. A583, 447 (2007)

5 GSPS * 8 = 40 GSPS


“Almost” Dead time free system

CMC1

CMC232

chan

nel

16

chan

nel

MUX

VME board

One board is active while other board is read out


DRS4 packaging

6 4 -L ea d L Q F P

6 4 -L ea d Q F N

17

64

18

63

19

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DRS3TOP VIEW

(N ot to Scale )

PIN 1

DR S3TO P VIEW

(Not to Scale)

PIN 1

P IN C O N F IG U R AT IO N

A 0

A 0

IN8+

IN 8+A 1

A 1

IN8-

IN 8-A 2

A 2

IN7+IN 7+A 3

A 3IN7-

IN 7-OU T11 OU T 11IN6+ IN 6+OU T10 OU T 1 0IN6- IN 6-

OU T9OU T 9

IN5+ IN 5+

OU T8OU T 8

IN5-IN 5-

OU T7

OU T 7

IN4+

IN 4+

OU T6

OU T 6

IN4-

IN 4-

OU T5

OU T 5

IN3+

IN 3+

OU T4

OU T 4

IN3-

IN 3-

OU T3

OU T 3

IN2+

IN 2+

OU T2

OU T 2

IN2-

IN 2-

OU T1

OU T 1

IN1+

IN 1+

IN1-

IN 1-

DG

ND

DV

DD

DTA

PD

SPE

ED

DW

RIT

ED

EN

AB

LED

MO

DE

RO

FSIN

11+

IN11

-IN

10+

IN10

-IN

9+IN

9-

DV

DD

DG

ND

DG

ND

DV

DD

DTA

PD

SP

EE

DD

WR

ITE

DE

NA

BLE

DM

OD

ER

OFS

IN11

+IN

11-

IN10

+IN

10-

IN9+

IN9-

DV

DD

DG

ND

M U XO UT/OU T0

M U XO UT/OU T 0

AG

ND

AG

ND

AVDD

AVD

D

BIAS

BIA

S

SR

IN

SR

IN

RS

RLO

AD

RS

RLO

AD

RS

RC

LK

RS

RC

LK

RS

RO

UT

RS

RO

UT

RS

RR

ST

RS

RR

ST

SSR

LOAD

SS

RLO

AD

SSR

OU

T

SS

RO

UT

WSR

CLK

WS

RC

LK

WSR

OU

T

WS

RO

UT

IN0-

IN0-

IN0+

IN0+

AVDD

AVD

D

AG

ND

AG

ND

DRS3 DRS4

9 mm

18 mm

5 mm

DRS4flip-chip


New generation of FADCs• 8 simultaneous flash ADCs on one chip• Require

differentialinput

• DRS4 has beenredesigned withdifferentialoutput


Trigger an DAQ on same board

• Using a multiplexer, input signals can simultaneously digitized at 65 MHz and sampled in the DRS

• FPGA can make local trigger(or global one) and stop DRSupon a trigger

• DRS readout (5 GHz samples)though same 8-channel FADCs

• Multiplexer will be included in DRS4analog front end

DRSFADC12 bit

65 MHzM

UX FPGA

trigger

LVDS

SRAM

DRS4

glob

al tr

igge

r bus

No splitter (signal quality!), no dedicated trigger boards, no dedicated scalers


“Redefinition of DAQ”Because of the high channel density of the DRS system, it becomes

affordable to use waveform digitizing in experiments which today use ADC/TCDs

Conventional New

AC coupling Baseline subtraction

Const. Fract. Discriminator DOS – Zero crossing

ADC Numerical Integration

TDCBin interpolation (LUT)

Waveform Fitting

Scaler (250 MHz) Scaler (50 MHz)

Oscilloscope Waveform sampling

400 $ / channel 100 $ / channel

TDCDisc.

ADC

Scaler

Scope

FADC

FPGA

CPU

DRS ~GHz

~100MHz


Availability• DRS4 will become available in larger quantities

in summer ’08• Chip can be obtained from PSI on a “non-profit” basis

• Delivery “as-is”• Reference design (schematics) from PSI• Costs ~ 10-15$/channel• Costs decrease if we find sell more…

• Full VME board can be purchased from CAENprobably end of ’08 with firmware forpeak sensing ADC, QDC, …

• Struck, others, … ?32-channel

65 MHz/12bit digitizer“boosted” by

DRS4 chip to 5 GHz


Other experiments using DRS

MACE TelescopeIndia

PET scanners

BPM for XFEL@PSI

8 chn.withPGA

Magic Telescope, Canary Islands


Conclusions• Switched Capacitor Array techniques has prospects to trigger

a quantum step in data acquisition• The DRS chip has been designed with maximum flexibility

and can therefore be used in many applications• Collaboration on a scientific basis is very welcome

http://midas.psi.ch/drs

Datasheets, publications:

tackling the search for lepton flavor violation with ghz waveform digitizing using the drs chip

Documents

e g egmm e g

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