Sensors (Dec 2021)
The SALT—Readout ASIC for Silicon Strip Sensors of Upstream Tracker in the Upgraded LHCb Experiment
- Carlos Abellan Beteta,
- Dimitra Andreou,
- Marina Artuso,
- Andy Beiter,
- Steven Blusk,
- Roma Bugiel,
- Szymon Bugiel,
- Antonio Carbone,
- Ina Carli,
- Bo Chen,
- Nadim Conti,
- Federico De Benedetti,
- Shuchong Ding,
- Scott Ely,
- Miroslaw Firlej,
- Tomasz Fiutowski,
- Paolo Gandini,
- Danielle Germann,
- Nathan Grieser,
- Marek Idzik,
- Xiaojie Jiang,
- Wojciech Krupa,
- Yiming Li,
- Zhuoming Li,
- Xixin Liang,
- Shuaiyi Liu,
- Yu Lu,
- Lauren Mackey,
- Jakub Moron,
- Ray Mountain,
- Marco Petruzzo,
- Hang Pham,
- Burkhard Schmidt,
- Shuqi Sheng,
- Elisabetta Spadaro Norella,
- Krzysztof Swientek,
- Tomasz Szumlak,
- Mark Tobin,
- Jianchun Wang,
- Michael Wilkinson,
- Hangyi Wu,
- Feihao Zhang,
- Quan Zou
Affiliations
- Carlos Abellan Beteta
- Physik-Institut, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, 8057 Zurich, Switzerland
- Dimitra Andreou
- Physics Department, Syracuse University, 900 South Crouse Ave, Syracuse, NY 13244, USA
- Marina Artuso
- Physics Department, Syracuse University, 900 South Crouse Ave, Syracuse, NY 13244, USA
- Andy Beiter
- Physics Department, Syracuse University, 900 South Crouse Ave, Syracuse, NY 13244, USA
- Steven Blusk
- Physics Department, Syracuse University, 900 South Crouse Ave, Syracuse, NY 13244, USA
- Roma Bugiel
- Faculty of Physics and Applied Computer Science, AGH University of Science and Technology, al. Mickiewicza 30, 30-059 Krakow, Poland
- Szymon Bugiel
- Faculty of Physics and Applied Computer Science, AGH University of Science and Technology, al. Mickiewicza 30, 30-059 Krakow, Poland
- Antonio Carbone
- INFN Sezione di Milano, Via Celoria 16, 20133 Milano, Italy
- Ina Carli
- Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 19B Yuquan Road, Shijingshan District, Beijing 100049, China
- Bo Chen
- Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 19B Yuquan Road, Shijingshan District, Beijing 100049, China
- Nadim Conti
- INFN Sezione di Milano, Via Celoria 16, 20133 Milano, Italy
- Federico De Benedetti
- INFN Sezione di Milano, Via Celoria 16, 20133 Milano, Italy
- Shuchong Ding
- Physics Department, Syracuse University, 900 South Crouse Ave, Syracuse, NY 13244, USA
- Scott Ely
- Physics Department, Syracuse University, 900 South Crouse Ave, Syracuse, NY 13244, USA
- Miroslaw Firlej
- Faculty of Physics and Applied Computer Science, AGH University of Science and Technology, al. Mickiewicza 30, 30-059 Krakow, Poland
- Tomasz Fiutowski
- Faculty of Physics and Applied Computer Science, AGH University of Science and Technology, al. Mickiewicza 30, 30-059 Krakow, Poland
- Paolo Gandini
- INFN Sezione di Milano, Via Celoria 16, 20133 Milano, Italy
- Danielle Germann
- Physics Department, Syracuse University, 900 South Crouse Ave, Syracuse, NY 13244, USA
- Nathan Grieser
- Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 19B Yuquan Road, Shijingshan District, Beijing 100049, China
- Marek Idzik
- Faculty of Physics and Applied Computer Science, AGH University of Science and Technology, al. Mickiewicza 30, 30-059 Krakow, Poland
- Xiaojie Jiang
- Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 19B Yuquan Road, Shijingshan District, Beijing 100049, China
- Wojciech Krupa
- Faculty of Physics and Applied Computer Science, AGH University of Science and Technology, al. Mickiewicza 30, 30-059 Krakow, Poland
- Yiming Li
- Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 19B Yuquan Road, Shijingshan District, Beijing 100049, China
- Zhuoming Li
- Physics Department, Syracuse University, 900 South Crouse Ave, Syracuse, NY 13244, USA
- Xixin Liang
- Physics Department, Syracuse University, 900 South Crouse Ave, Syracuse, NY 13244, USA
- Shuaiyi Liu
- Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 19B Yuquan Road, Shijingshan District, Beijing 100049, China
- Yu Lu
- Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 19B Yuquan Road, Shijingshan District, Beijing 100049, China
- Lauren Mackey
- Physics Department, Syracuse University, 900 South Crouse Ave, Syracuse, NY 13244, USA
- Jakub Moron
- Faculty of Physics and Applied Computer Science, AGH University of Science and Technology, al. Mickiewicza 30, 30-059 Krakow, Poland
- Ray Mountain
- Physics Department, Syracuse University, 900 South Crouse Ave, Syracuse, NY 13244, USA
- Marco Petruzzo
- INFN Sezione di Milano, Via Celoria 16, 20133 Milano, Italy
- Hang Pham
- Physics Department, Syracuse University, 900 South Crouse Ave, Syracuse, NY 13244, USA
- Burkhard Schmidt
- European Organization for Nuclear Research, CERN, CH-1211 Geneve, Switzerland
- Shuqi Sheng
- Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 19B Yuquan Road, Shijingshan District, Beijing 100049, China
- Elisabetta Spadaro Norella
- INFN Sezione di Milano, Via Celoria 16, 20133 Milano, Italy
- Krzysztof Swientek
- Faculty of Physics and Applied Computer Science, AGH University of Science and Technology, al. Mickiewicza 30, 30-059 Krakow, Poland
- Tomasz Szumlak
- Faculty of Physics and Applied Computer Science, AGH University of Science and Technology, al. Mickiewicza 30, 30-059 Krakow, Poland
- Mark Tobin
- Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 19B Yuquan Road, Shijingshan District, Beijing 100049, China
- Jianchun Wang
- Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 19B Yuquan Road, Shijingshan District, Beijing 100049, China
- Michael Wilkinson
- Physics Department, Syracuse University, 900 South Crouse Ave, Syracuse, NY 13244, USA
- Hangyi Wu
- Physics Department, Syracuse University, 900 South Crouse Ave, Syracuse, NY 13244, USA
- Feihao Zhang
- Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 19B Yuquan Road, Shijingshan District, Beijing 100049, China
- Quan Zou
- Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 19B Yuquan Road, Shijingshan District, Beijing 100049, China
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3390/s22010107
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 22,
no. 1
p. 107
Abstract
SALT, a new dedicated readout Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) for the Upstream Tracker, a new silicon detector in the Large Hadron Collider beauty (LHCb) experiment, has been designed and developed. It is a 128-channel chip using an innovative architecture comprising a low-power analogue front-end with fast pulse shaping and a 40 MSps 6-bit Analog-to-Digital Converter (ADC) in each channel, followed by a Digital Signal Processing (DSP) block performing pedestal and Mean Common Mode (MCM) subtraction and zero suppression. The prototypes of SALT were fabricated and tested, confirming the full chip functionality and fulfilling the specifications. A signal-to-noise ratio of about 20 is achieved for a silicon sensor with a 12 pF input capacitance. In this paper, the SALT architecture and measurements of the chip performance are presented.
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