TY  - JOUR
AU  - KM3NeT Collaboration (Aiello, S. et al
AU  - Calvo, D.
AU  - Coleiro, A.
AU  - Colomer, M.
AU  - Gozzini, S. R.
AU  - Hernandez-Rey, J. J.
AU  - Illuminati, G.
AU  - Khan Chowdhury, N. R.
AU  - Manczak, J.
AU  - Pieterse, C.
AU  - Real, D.
AU  - Thakore, T.
AU  - Zornoza, J. D.
AU  - Zuñiga, J.
PY  - 2019
DA  - 2019//
TI  - KM3NeT front-end and readout electronics system: hardware, firmware, and software
T2  - J. Astron. Telesc. Instrum. Syst.
JO  - Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments and Systems
SP  - 046001
EP  - 15pp
VL  - 5
IS  - 4
PB  - Spie-Soc Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers
KW  - front-end electronics
KW  - readout electronics
KW  - neutrino telescope
KW  - KM3NeT
AB  - The KM3NeT research infrastructure being built at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea will host water-Cherenkov telescopes for the detection of cosmic neutrinos. The neutrino telescopes will consist of large volume three-dimensional grids of optical modules to detect the Cherenkov light from charged particles produced by neutrino-induced interactions. Each optical module houses 31 3-in. photomultiplier tubes, instrumentation for calibration of the photomultiplier signal and positioning of the optical module, and all associated electronics boards. By design, the total electrical power consumption of an optical module has been capped at seven Watts. We present an overview of the front-end and readout electronics system inside the optical module, which has been designed for a 1-ns synchronization between the clocks of all optical modules in the grid during a life time of at least 20 years. (C) 2019 Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE)
SN  - 2329-4124
UR  - https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.06453
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JATIS.5.4.046001
DO  - 10.1117/1.JATIS.5.4.046001
LA  - English
N1  - WOS:000510649500024
ID  - KM3NeTCollaborationAiello_etal2019
ER  -