Trigger and readout electronics for the STEREO experiment

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Published 25 February 2016 © 2016 IOP Publishing Ltd and Sissa Medialab srl
, , Topical Workshop on Electronics for Particle Physics Citation O. Bourrion et al 2016 JINST 11 C02078 DOI 10.1088/1748-0221/11/02/C02078

1748-0221/11/02/C02078

Abstract

The STEREO experiment will search for a sterile neutrino by measuring the anti-neutrino energy spectrum as a function of the distance from the source, the ILL nuclear reactor. A dedicated electronic system, hosted in a single microTCA crate, was designed for this experiment. It performs triggering in two stages with various selectable conditions, processing and readout via UDP/IPBUS of 68 photomultiplier signals continuously digitized at 250 MSPS. Additionally, for detector performance monitoring, the electronics allow on-line calibration by driving LED synchronously with the data acquisition. This paper describes the electronics requirements, architecture and the performances achieved.

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10.1088/1748-0221/11/02/C02078