NECTAR: New Electronics for the Cherenkov Telescope Array

C.L. Naumann (1) , J. Bolmont (1) , P. Corona (1) , E. Delagnes , Daniel Dzahini (2) , F. Feinstein (3) , D. Gascon , J.-F. Glicenstein , P. Nayman (1) , F. Rarbi (2) , M. Ribó , A. Sanuy , J. Sieiro , J.-P. Tavernet (1) , F. Toussenel (1) , P. Vincent (1) , S. Vorobiov (3)

1 LPNHE - Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Énergies
2 LPSC - Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie
3 LUPM - Laboratoire Univers et Particules de Montpellier

CTA is the next-generation Cherenkov Telescope Array currently under development by the international CTA consortium, based on experience from the three major telescope arrays of the current generation, H.E.S.S., MAGIC and VERITAS. A new kind of front-end hardware, both powerful and flexible, yet inexpensive, will be required to achieve a sensitivity and energy range which is hitherto unprecedented for TeV gamma rays. One possible solution to equip the up to 100 planned telescopes (with a total of around 100000 photodetector channels) while providing a high degree of flexibility for both triggering and telescope readout is offered by the NECTAr system (New Electronics for the Cherenkov Telescope Array), integrating as much of the front-end functionality as possible into a single ASIC (including pre-amplifiers, fast analog samplers, memory and ADCs). The current status of its development, together with results from measurements and simulations are presented

Domaines: Instrumentations et Détecteurs [physics.ins-det]

C.L. Naumann, J. Bolmont, P. Corona, E. Delagnes, Daniel Dzahini, et al.. NECTAR: New Electronics for the Cherenkov Telescope Array. International Workshop on New Photon-Detectors (PhotoDet 2012), Jun 2012, Orsay, France. pp.030. ⟨in2p3-00805284⟩