TY  - JOUR
AU  - Michel, J.
AU  - Gniazdowski, T.
AU  - Guzmán, A.
AU  - Matejcek, F.
AU  - Müntz, C.
AU  - Svintozelskyi, V.
AU  - Wendisch, Christian
AU  - Stroth, J.
TI  - New electronics for the HADES MDC drift chambers
JO  - Journal of Instrumentation
VL  - 19
IS  - 02
SN  - 1748-0221
CY  - London
PB  - Inst. of Physics
M1  - GSI-2025-00219
SP  - C02056 -
PY  - 2024
AB  - 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.
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
UR  - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:001181996100007
DO  - DOI:10.1088/1748-0221/19/02/C02056
UR  - https://repository.gsi.de/record/356836
ER  -