Year: 2001
Type: article
Abstract: The on-detector electronics of the ALICE silicon pixel detector (nearly 10 million pixels) consists of 1,200 readout chips, bump-bonded to silicon sensors and mounted on the front-end bus, and of 120 control (PILOT) chips, mounted on a multi chip module (MCM) together with opto-electronic transceivers.The environment of the pixel detector is such that radiation tolerant components are required.The front-end chips are all ASICs designed in a commercial 0.25-micron CMOS technology using radiation hardening layout techniques.An 800 Mbit/s Glink-compatible serializer and laser diode driver, also designed in the same 0.25 micron process, is used to transmit data over an optical fibre to the control room where the actual data processing and event building are performed.We describe the system and report on the status of the PILOT system.
Authors: Van Hunen, J J, Chochula, P, Kluge, A, Krivda, M, Lupták, M, Burns, M, Campbell, M, Antinori, Federico, Bán, J, Riedler, P, Morel, M, Meddi, F, Wyllie, Ken H, Stefanini, G, Anelli, G, Snoeys, W, Formenti, F, Dinapoli, R
Language: English
Subfield: Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2299258085