Printed-Circuit Modular Instrumentation System

1 February 1965

journal article
research article
Published by AIP Publishing in Review of Scientific Instruments

Vol. 36 (2) , 166-173
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1719511

Abstract

A transistorized modular instrumentation system for handling photomultiplier signals from scintillation and/or Čerenkov counters in high energy physics experiments is described. The experimenter has available a multiplicity of operations, such as coincidence determination, gating, amplitude discrimination, multiplexing, mixing, amplification, and pulse‐height analysis. System design considerations emphasize direct interchangeability of modules to minimize calibration procedures. Particular emphasis has been placed on the stability and linearity of the amplifying, gating, and mixing circuits, so that 1% pulse‐height resolution may be meaningfully achieved. High speed coincidence and gating circuits are available, in which ``pile‐up'' effects have been minimized to allow operation at counting rates of up to 10 Mc. In experiments where manual data reduction is feasible, the outputs of the system are displayed via scalers and/or commercial pulse‐height analyzers; in more complex experiments, the outputs may be further processed through a digital computer.

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