Electronics for gaseous detectors

Contacts: H. Muller, J. Kaminski, M. Gouzevitch, M. Lupberger

Contact email: DRD1-WG5-convenors@cern.ch

WG5 Indico category: https://indico.cern.ch/category/16511/

It is important to support the development of electronic devices to fully exploit the features of new detectors. This is obvious and fully supported by large exper- iments. The upcoming collaboration DRD7 will focus on new technologies and ASIC designs that give much higher performance necessary in future experiments and are not available today. Also, new connecting techniques and data transfer de- signs are investigated there. But these high-end devices are not necessary during the R&D phase of the detector development. It is, however, often very difficult to obtain well-suited electronics in smaller numbers that are well-supported and a short training period is needed before efficient use is reached. This working group, therefore, is concentrating on developing a platform for R&D detectors and intro- ductory test systems for big experiments. A community survey has shown that the Scalable Readout System developed by RD51 was a huge success and many groups familiar with the system have mentioned that continued support and devel- opment of new features is among the most important tasks of DRD1. The requests for additions reflect the increased diversity of the community and range from ana- log and discrete readouts to multichannel integrated ASICs for multi-purpose data acquisition. Also, the application requirements mentioned in the survey show a large almost uniform distribution of pixel readout, strip readout and waveform digitization. Also, non-conventional features like high time resolutions (sub ns), FPGA-based pre-reconstruction and wide dynamic ranges are for many groups of interest. Finally, support for noise reduction, grounding, shielding and spark protection were mentioned with similar high numbers as other future challenges.