@Article{Gil_etal2012,
author="Gil, A.
and Diaz, J.
and Gomez-Cadenas, J. J.
and Herrero, V.
and Rodriguez, J.
and Serra, L.
and Toledo, J.
and Esteve, R.
and Monzo, J. M.
and Monrabal, F.
and Yahlali, N.",
title="Front-end electronics for accurate energy measurement of double beta decays",
journal="Nuclear Instruments {\&} Methods in Physics Research A",
year="2012",
publisher="Elsevier Science Bv",
volume="695",
pages="407--409",
optkeywords="Front-end electronics; Xenon gas TPC; Energy measurement; Electroluminiscence; Double-beta decay",
abstract="NEXT, a double beta decay experiment that will operate in Canfranc Underground Laboratory (Spain), aims at measuring the neutrinoless double-beta decay of the 136Xe isotope using a TPC filled with enriched Xenon gas at high pressure operated in electroluminescence mode. One technological challenge of the experiment is to achieve resolution better than 1{\%} in the energy measurement using a plane of UV sensitive photomultipliers readout with appropriate custom-made front-end electronics. The front-end is designed to be sensitive to the single photo-electron to detect the weak primary scintillation light produced in the chamber, and also to be able to cope with the electroluminescence signal (several hundred times higher and with a duration of microseconds). For efficient primary scintillation detection and precise energy measurement of the electroluminescent signals the front-end electronics features low noise and adequate amplification. The signal shaping provided allows the digitization of the signals at a frequency as low as 40 MHz.",
optnote="WOS:000311469900092",
optnote="exported from refbase (https://references.ific.uv.es/refbase/show.php?record=1238), last updated on Mon, 24 Dec 2012 11:31:03 +0000",
issn="0168-9002",
doi="10.1016/j.nima.2011.11.024",
opturl="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2011.11.024",
language="English"
}