Neutrino 2018 - XXVIII International Conference on Neutrino Physics and Astrophysics

New read-out electronics for the TPC wires of the ICARUS detector

Not scheduled

20m

Kongresshaus Stadthalle Heidelberg (Heidelberg)

Poster new technologies Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)

Speaker

Dr Christian Farnese (Università di Padova and INFN sezione di Padova)

Description

The ICARUS T600, a liquid argon time projection chamber (LAr-TPC), underwent a major overhauling at CERN, in 2016-2017, which included also a new design of the read-out electronics, in view of its operation in Fermilab on the Short Baseline Neutrino (SBN) program from 2019. The new more compact electronics showed capability of handling more efficiently also the signals in the intermediate Induction 2 wire plane with a significant increase of S/N, allowing charge measurement. The new front-end and the AD conversion (ADC) system are presented together with the results of the tests on 50 liters liquid argon TPC performed in CERN with cosmic rays.