Journal Article

GSI-2025-00219

http://join2-wiki.gsi.de/foswiki/pub/Main/Artwork/join2_logo100x88.png New electronics for the HADES MDC drift chambers

Michel, J. ; Gniazdowski, T. ; Guzmán, A. ; Matejcek, F. ; Müntz, C. ; Svintozelskyi, V. ; Wendisch, C.GSI* ; Stroth, J.GSI*

2024
Inst. of Physics London

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Please use a persistent id in citations: doi:10.1088/1748-0221/19/02/C02056  doi:10.15120/GSI-2025-00219

Abstract: The drift chambers of the HADES experiment at SIS-18 at GSI, Darmstadt/Germany, form the main tracking system of the spectrometer. Designed more than twenty years ago, the whole front-end electronics chain is being replaced with state-of-the-art electronics to cope with the increasing failure rate of the old electronics and with advanced requirements of the experiment, e.g. the trigger rate. The new analog signal processing is based on the PASTTREC ASIC, developed for the Straw Tube Tracker of the PANDA Experiment. The digitization of data happens in FPGA-based TDCs. The main challenges of the project are the strict spatial constraints given by the experiment setup to place the front-end boards and the noise sensitivity of the large area gas detectors. In addition, the power consumption needed to be kept low due to thermal constraints.

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Contributing Institute(s):

1. HADES (HAD)
2. Collaboration GSI: HADES (HADES@GSI)
3. Collaboration FAIR: HADES (HADES@FAIR)

Research Program(s):

1. 622 - Detector Technologies and Systems (POF4-622) (POF4-622)

Experiment(s):

1. S520: HADES - V (POF3-612; HAD)

Appears in the scientific report 2024

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