0546347 - FZÚ 2022 RIV GB eng J - Journal Article
Aab, A. - Abreu, A. - Aglietta, M. - Bakalová, Alena - Blažek, Jiří - Boháčová, Martina - Chudoba, Jiří - Ebr, Jan - Juryšek, Jakub - Mandát, Dušan - Palatka, Miroslav - Pech, Miroslav - Prouza, Michael - Řídký, Jan - dos Santos, Eva M. Martins - Schovánek, Petr - Tobiška, Petr - Trávníček, Petr - Vícha, Jakub - Yushkov, Alexey … Total 352 authors
Design, upgrade and characterization of the silicon photomultiplier front-end for the AMIGA detector at the Pierre Auger Observatory.
Journal of Instrumentation. Roč. 16, č. 1 (2021), č. článku P01026. ISSN 1748-0221. E-ISSN 1748-0221
R&D Projects: GA MŠMT LTT18004; GA MŠMT LM2015038; GA MŠMT(CZ) EF18_046/0016010; GA MŠMT EF16_013/0001402; GA MŠMT(CZ) LM2018102
Grant - others:OP VVV - AUGERII.CZ(XE) CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/18_046/0016010; OP VVV - AUGER-CZ(XE) CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/16_013/0001402
Institutional support: RVO:68378271
Keywords : front-end electronics for detector readout * pattern recognition * cluster finding * calibration and fitting methods * performance of High Energy Physics
OECD category: Particles and field physics
Impact factor: 1.121, year: 2021
Method of publishing: Open access

AMIGA (Auger Muons and Infill for the Ground Array) is an upgrade of the Pierre Auger Observatory to complement the study of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECR) by measuring the muon content of extensive air showers (EAS). It consists of an array of 61 water Cherenkov detectors on a denser spacing in combination with underground scintillation detectors used for muon density measurement. Each detector is composed of three scintillation modules, with 10 m(2) detection area per module, buried at 2.3 m depth, resulting in a total detection area of 30 m(2). Silicon photomultiplier sensors (SiPM) measure the amount of scintillation light generated by charged particles traversing the modules. In this paper, the design of the front-end electronics to process the signals of those SiPMs and test results from the laboratory and from the Pierre Auger Observatory are described.
Permanent Link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0322876