Design and implementation of the Front End Board for the readout of the ATLAS liquid argon calorimeters

N.J. Buchanan , Lin Chen , D.M. Gingrich , S. Liu , H. Chen , J. Farrell , J. Kierstead , F. Lanni , D. Lissauer , H. Ma , D. Makowiecki , V. Radeka , S. Rescia , H. Takai , H. Ghazlane , A. Hoummada , H.G. Wilkens (1) , J. Ban , S. Boettcher , G. Brooijmans , C.-Y. Chi , S. Caughron , M. Cooke , D. Dannheim , A. Gara , A. Haas , I. Katsanos , J.A. Parsons , S. Simion , W. Sippach , L. Zhang , N. Zhou , E. Ladygin , E. Auge (2) , R. Bernier (2) , M. Bouchel (2) , A. Bozzone (2) , D. Breton (2) , C. de La Taille (2) , I. Falleau (2) , P. Imbert (2) , G. Martin-Chassard (2) , A. Perus (2) , J.P. Richer (2) , V. Tocut (2) , J.-J. Veillet (2) , D. Zerwas (2) , F. Hubaut (3) , B. Laforge (4) , O. Le Dortz , D. Martin (4) , Ph. Schwemling , J. Collot (5) , Daniel Dzahini (5) , M.L. Gallin-Martel (5) , P. Martin (5) , W.D. Cwienk , J. Fent , L. Kurchaninov , G. Battistoni , L. Carminati , M. Citterio , W. Cleland , B. Liu , J. Rabel , G. Zuk , K. Benslama , E. Delagnes (6) , B. Mansoulié (6) , J. Teiger (6) , B. Dinkespiler (3) , T. Liu , R. Stroynowski , C.-A. Yang , J. Ye , M.L. Chu , S.-C. Lee , P.K. Teng

1 CERN - European Organization for Nuclear Research
2 LAL - Laboratoire de l'Accélérateur Linéaire
3 CPPM - Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille
4 LPNHE - Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Énergies
5 LPSC - Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie
6 IRFU - Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers

The ATLAS detector has been designed for operation at CERN's Large Hadron Collider. ATLAS includes a complex system of liquid argon calorimeters. The electronics for amplifying, shaping, sampling, pipelining, and digitizing the calorimeter signals is implemented on the Front End Boards (FEBs). This paper describes the design, implementation and production of the FEBs and presents measurement results from testing performed at several stages during the production process.

Mots clés: Calorimeter; Electronic detector readout concepts (gas; liquid)

Domaines: Electronique; Physique des Hautes Energies - Expérience [hep-ex]

N.J. Buchanan, Lin Chen, D.M. Gingrich, S. Liu, H. Chen, et al.. Design and implementation of the Front End Board for the readout of the ATLAS liquid argon calorimeters. Journal of Instrumentation, 2008, 3, pp.P03004. ⟨10.1088/1748-0221/3/03/P03004⟩. ⟨in2p3-00268022⟩