%0 Journal Article
%T Readout electronics for the SiPM tracking plane in the NEXT-1 prototype
%A Herrero, V.
%A Toledo, J.
%A Catala, J. M.
%A Esteve, R.
%A Gil, A.
%A Lorca, D.
%A Monzo, J. M.
%A Sanchis, F.
%A Verdugo, A.
%J Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research A
%D 2012
%V 695
%I Elsevier Science Bv
%@ 0168-9002
%G English
%F Herrero_etal2012
%O WOS:000311469900049
%O exported from refbase (https://references.ific.uv.es/refbase/show.php?record=1237), last updated on Mon, 24 Dec 2012 11:26:23 +0000
%X NEXT is a new experiment to search for neutrinoless double beta decay using a 100 kg radio-pure high-pressure gaseous xenon TPC with electroluminescence readout. A large-scale prototype with a SiPM tracking plane has been built. The primary electron paths can be reconstructed from time-resolved measurements of the light that arrives to the SiPM plane. Our approach is to measure how many photons have reached each SiPM sensor each microsecond with a gated integrator. We have designed and tested a 16-channel front-end board that includes the analog paths and a digital section. Each analog path consists of three different stages: a transimpedance amplifier, a gated integrator and an offset and gain control stage. Measurements show good linearity and the ability to detect single photoelectrons.
%K Neutrino less double beta decay
%K Xenon gas TPC
%K SiPM readout
%K Front-end electronics
%K Gated integrator
%R 10.1016/j.nima.2011.12.057
%U https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2011.12.057
%P 229-232