Publications

2017

• A Front-End Test Stand for the Analog ASICs of the ATLAS LAr Calorimeter HL-LHC Upgrade
  
  • Liu H.
  • Chen H.
  • Chen K.
  • Geronimo G.De
  • de La Taille C.
  • Lanni F.
  • Ma H.
  • Morange N.
  • Seguin-Moreau N.
  • Serin L.
  • Simion S.
  , 2017. This paper describes the development of a common front-end test stand for the analog ASICs, which are part of the effort to develop the front-end electronics for the ATLAS LAr calorimeter HL-LHC (High Luminosity LHC) upgrade. The common test stand consists of the front-end test board, toy calorimeters, ASIC mezzanine boards and the DAQ system. The front-end test board is the bridge between the DAQ system and the ASIC mezzanine, it integrates two 16-channel ADCs for digitizing the outputs of the analog ASIC and a calibration pulse generator for detector signal injection. The analog ASICs under test are mounted on the ASIC mezzanine boards, their outputs are connected to the front-end test board through an FMC connector. A Xilinx ZC706 evaluation board is utilized as the DAQ board for this test stand, a Gigabit Ethernet link is implemented on the DAQ board for slow control, configuration and ADC data transmission. The tests of two front-end analog ASICs with this test stand are ongoing. The preliminary test results demonstrated that this test stand is suitable for the testing of the multi-channel analog ASICs developed for the LAr Calorimeter HL-LHC upgrade. (10.1109/NSSMIC.2017.8532654)
  DOI : 10.1109/NSSMIC.2017.8532654
• ALTIROC0, a 20 pico-second time resolution ASIC for the ATLAS High Granularity Timing Detector (HGTD)
  
  • de La Taille Christophe
  • Callier Stéphane
  • Di Lorenzo Selma Conforti
  • Seguin-Moreau Nathalie
  • Dinaucourt P
  • Martin-Chassard G
  • Agapopoulou C
  • Makovec N
  • Serin L
  • Simion S
  , 2018, TWEPP-17, pp.006. ALTIROC0 is an 8-channel ASIC prototype designed to readout 1x1 or 2x2 mm2 50 µm thick Low Gain Avalanche Diodes (LGAD) of the ATLAS High Granularity Timing Detector (HGTD). The targeted combined time resolution of the sensor and the readout electronics is 30 ps for one MIP. Each analog channel of the ASIC must exhibit an extremely low jitter to ensure this challenging time resolution, while keeping a low power consumption of 2 mW/channel. A “Time Over Threshold” and a “Constant Fraction Discriminator” architecture are integrated to correct for the time walk. Test bench measurements performed on the ASIC received in April 2017 are presented. (10.22323/1.313.0006)
  DOI : 10.22323/1.313.0006
• The EUSO@Turlab Project: Results from Phase II
  
  • Suino Gregorio
  • Miyamoto H.
  • Bertaina M.
  • Casu R.
  • Cotto G.
  • Forza R.
  • Manfrin M.
  • Mignone M.
  • Mulas R.
  • Onorato M.
  • Youssef A.
  • Caruso R.
  • Contino G.
  • Guardone N.
  • Bacholle S.
  • Gorodetzky P.
  • Jung A.
  • Parizot E.
  • Prevot Ghislaine
  • Barrillon P.
  • Dagoret-Campagne S.
  • Rabanal J.
  • Blin S.
  , 2018, ICRC2017, pp.422. The TurLab facility is a laboratory, equipped with a 5 m diameter and 1 m deep rotating tank,located in the Physics Department of the University of Turin. Originally built mainly to study problems where system rotation plays a key role in the fluid behaviour such as in atmospheric and oceanic flows at different scales, in the past few years the TurLab facility has been used to perform experiments related to observation of Extreme Energy Cosmic Rays from space using the fluo-rescence technique, as in the case of the JEM-EUSO mission, where the diffuse night brightness and artificial light sources can vary significantly in time and space inside the Field of View of the telescope. The description of the EUSO@TurLab project and its first results have been presented in the past. During the last two years many upgrades have been performed on the instrumenta-tion mainly related to the read-out electronics: SPACIROC-1 (employed in EUSO-Balloon and EUSO-TA prototypes) and SPACIROC-3 (EUSO-SPB and Mini-EUSO) which allowed to test a fully equipped Elementary Cell of JEM-EUSO. This phase has been named Phase II. Moreover, the Focal Surface of EUSO-Balloon with the level 1 trigger logic implemented in the Photo-Detector Module has been tested at TurLab after the Canada flight. Finally, tests related to the possibility to employ a EUSO-like detector for other type of applications such as wave monitor-ing and imaging detector have been pursued. The tests and results obtained in EUSO@TurLab Project - Phase II are described. (10.22323/1.301.0422)
  DOI : 10.22323/1.301.0422
• SPACIROC3: 100 MHz photon counting ASIC for EUSO-SPB
  
  • Blin S.
  • Barrillon P.
  • de La Taille C.
  • Dulucq F.
  • Gorodetzky P.
  • Prévôt G.
  , 2018, 912, pp.363-367. SPACIROC (Spatial Photomultiplier Array Counting and Integrating ReadOut Chip) is the front-end ASIC dedicated to readout 64-channel Multi-Anode Photo-Multiplier Tube (MAPMT). In 2017, it was used for the Extreme Universe Space Observatory on a super pressure balloon (EUSO-SPB) instrument which is a pathfinder for space cosmic ray fluorescence detectors. EUSO-SPB was launched by NASA from Wanaka, NZ on the 24th of April 2017. The flight has been a success both on technological and scientific point of views. The instrument was equipped with a set of lenses to focus the UV photons on the Photo Detector Module (PDM) which was controlled by the Data Processing system. The photo detection focal surface is made of 36 MAPMTs with high voltage sub-system (HVPS). The MAPMT signals are transmitted to SPACIROC3 ASIC which performs single photon counting with low power consumption ( <1 mW/ch). This proceeding presents in detail the performances of the SPACIROC3 ASIC. (10.1016/j.nima.2017.12.060)
  DOI : 10.1016/j.nima.2017.12.060
• CATIROC, a multichannel front-end ASIC to read out the 3″ PMTs (SPMT) system of the JUNO experiment
  
  • Conforti S.
  • Cabrera A.
  • Taille C.
  • Dulucq F.
  • Grassi M.
  • Martin-Chassard G.
  • Noury A.
  • Santos C.
  • Seguin-Moreau N.
  • Settimo M.
  , 2018, 212-213, pp.168-172. The ASIC CATIROC (Charge And Time Integrated Read Out Chip) is a complete read-out chip designed to read arrays of 16 photomultipliers (PMTs). It finds a valuable application in the content of the JUNO (Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory) experiment [1], a liquid scintillator antineutrino detector with a double calorimetry system combining about 17k 20″ PMTs (Large PMTs system) and around 25k 3″ PMTs (Small PMTs system). A front-end electronics based on the ASIC CATIROC matches well within the 3″ PMTs system specifications as explained in this paper. CATIROC is a SoC (System on Chip) that processes analog signals up to the digitization to reduce the cost and cables number. The ASIC is composed of 16 independent channels that work in triggerless mode, auto-triggering on the single photo-electron (PE). It provides a charge measurement with a charge resolution of 15 fC and a timing information with a precision of 200 ps rms. (10.1007/978-981-13-1313-4_34)
  DOI : 10.1007/978-981-13-1313-4_34
• Tracking within Hadronic Showers in the CALICE SDHCAL prototype using a Hough Transform Technique
  
  • Deng Z.
  • Li Y.
  • Wang Y.
  • Yue Q.
  • Yang Z.
  • Boumediene D.
  • Carloganu C.
  • Français V.
  • Cho G.
  • Kim D-W.
  • Lee S.C.
  • Liu Z.
  • Park W.
  • Vallecorsa S.
  • Cauwenbergh S.
  • Tytgat M.
  • Pingault A.
  • Zaganidis N.
  • Bach O.
  • Brianne E.
  • Ebrahimi A.
  • Gadow K.
  • Göttlicher P.
  • Hartbrich O.
  • Irles A.
  • Kotera K.
  • Krivan F.
  • Krüger K.
  • Lu S.
  • Neubüser C.
  • Provenza A.
  • Reinecke M.
  • Sefkow F.
  • Schuwalow S.
  • Sudo Y.
  • Tran H.L.
  • Hirai H.
  • Kawagoe K.
  • Suehara T.
  • Sumida H.
  • Yoshioka T.
  • Cortina Gil E.
  • Mannai S.
  • Buridon V.
  • Combaret C.
  • Caponetto L.
  • Et́é R.
  • Garillot G.
  • Grenier G.
  • Han R.
  • Ianigro J.C.
  • Kieffer R.
  • Kurca T.
  • Laktineh I.
  • Li B.
  • Lumb N.
  • Mathez H.
  • Mirabito L.
  • Petrukhin A.
  • Steen A.
  • Berenguer Antequera J.
  • Calvo Alamillo E.
  • Fouz M.-C.
  • Marin J.
  • Navarrete J.
  • Puerta-Pelayo J.
  • Verdugo A.
  • Corriveau F.
  • Chadeeva M.
  • Gabriel M.
  • Goecke P.
  • Graf C.
  • Israeli Y.
  • van Der Kolk N.
  • Simon F.
  • Szalay M.
  • Windel H.
  • Bilokin S.
  • Bonis J.
  • Pöschl R.
  • Thiebault A.
  • Richard F.
  • Zerwas D.
  • Anduze M.
  • Balagura V.
  • Becheva E.
  • Boudry V.
  • Brient J-C.
  • Cornat R.
  • Gastaldi F.
  • Haddad Y.
  • Magniette F.
  • Nanni J.
  • Ruan M.
  • Rubio-Roy M.
  • Shpak K.
  • Tran T.H.
  • Videau H.
  • Yu D.
  • Callier S.
  • Dulucq F.
  • de La Taille C.
  • Martin-Chassard G.
  • Raux L.
  • Seguin-Moreau N.
  • Cvach J.
  • Janata M.
  • Kovalcuk M.
  • Kvasnicka J.
  • Polak I.
  • Smolik J.
  • Vrba V.
  • Zalesak J.
  • Zuklin J.
  Journal of Instrumentation, IOP Publishing, 2017, 12 (05), pp.P05009. The high granularity of the CALICE Semi-Digital Hadronic CALorimeter (SDHCAL) provides the capability to reveal the track segments present in hadronic showers. These segments are then used as a tool to probe the behaviour of the active layers in situ, to better reconstruct the energy of these hadronic showers and also to distinguish them from electromagnetic ones. In addition, the comparison of these track segments in data and the simulation helps to discriminate among the different shower models used in the simulation. To extract the track segments in the showers recorded in the SDHCAL, a Hough Transform is used after being adapted to the presence of the dense core of the hadronic showers and the SDHCAL active medium structure. (10.1088/1748-0221/12/05/P05009)
  DOI : 10.1088/1748-0221/12/05/P05009
• SiW ECAL for future e+ e− collider
  
  • Balagura V.
  • Bilokin S.
  • Bonis J.
  • Boudry V.
  • Brient J.
  • Callier S.
  • Cheng T.
  • Cornat R.
  • de La Taille C.
  • Doan T.
  • Frotin M.
  • Gastaldi F.
  • Hirai H.
  • Jain S.
  • Jain Sh.
  • Lacour D.
  • Lavergne L.
  • Lleres A.
  • Magniette F.
  • Mastrolorenzo L.
  • Nanni J.
  • Poeschl R.
  • Pozdnyakov A.
  • Psallidas A.
  • Ruan M.
  • Rubio-Roy Miguel
  • Seguin-Moreau N.
  • Shpak K.
  • Suehara T.
  • Thiebault A.
  • Wright J.
  • Yu D.
  Journal of Instrumentation, IOP Publishing, 2017, 12 (07), pp.C07013. Calorimeters with silicon detectors have many unique features and are proposed for sev-eral world-leading experiments. We discuss the tests of the first three 18×18 cm2 layers segmented into 1024 pixels of the technological prototype of the silicon-tungsten electromagnetic calorimeter for a future e+e− collider. The tests have beem performed in November 2015 at CERN SPS beam line. (10.1088/1748-0221/12/07/C07013)
  DOI : 10.1088/1748-0221/12/07/C07013
• Meteor studies in the framework of the JEM-EUSO program
  
  • Abdellaoui G.
  • Abe S.
  • Acheli A.
  • Adams J. H.
  • Ahmad S.
  • Ahriche A.
  • Albert J.-N.
  • Allard D.
  • Alonso G.
  • Anchordoqui L.
  • Andreev V.
  • Anzalone A.
  • Aouimeur W.
  • Arai Y.
  • Arsene N.
  • Asano K.
  • Attallah R.
  • Attoui H.
  • Ave Pernas M.
  • Bacholle S.
  • Bakiri M.
  • Baragatti P.
  • Barrillon P.
  • Bartocci S.
  • Batsch T.
  • Bayer J.
  • Bechini R.
  • Belenguer T.
  • Bellotti R.
  • Belov A.
  • Belov K.
  • Benadda B.
  • Benmessai K.
  • Berlind A. A.
  • Bertaina M.
  • Biermann P. L.
  • Biktemerova S.
  • Bisconti F.
  • Blanc N.
  • Błȩcki J.
  • Blin-Bondil S.
  • Bobik P.
  • Bogomilov M.
  • Bonamente M.
  • Boudaoud R.
  • Bozzo E.
  • Briggs M. S.
  • Bruno A.
  • Caballero K. S.
  • Cafagna F.
  • Campana D.
  • Capdevielle J. -N.
  • Capel F.
  • Caramete A.
  • Caramete L.
  • Carlson P.
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  • Casolino M.
  • Cassardo C.
  • Castellina A.
  • Castellini G.
  • Catalano C.
  • Catalano O.
  • Cellino A.
  • Chikawa M.
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  • Connaughton V.
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  • Crawford H. J.
  • Cremonini R.
  • Csorna S.
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  • de Donato C.
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  • Djemil T.
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  • Dulucq F.
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  • Ebersoldt A.
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  • Engel R.
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  • Fang K.
  • Fenu F.
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  • Ferrarese S.
  • Finco D.
  • Flamini M.
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  • Franceschi A.
  • Franchini S.
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  • Fujimoto J.
  • Fukushima M.
  • Galeotti P.
  • García-Ortega E.
  • Garipov G.
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  • Geary J.
  • Gelmini G.
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  • Haungs A.
  • Hernández Carretero J.
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  • Ikeda D.
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  • Jung A.
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  Planetary and Space Science, Elsevier, 2017, 143, pp.245-255. We summarize the state of the art of a program of UV observations from space of meteor phenomena, a secondary objective of the JEM-EUSO international collaboration. Our preliminary analysis indicates that JEM-EUSO, taking advantage of its large FOV and good sensitivity, should be able to detect meteors down to absolute magnitude close to 7. This means that JEM-EUSO should be able to record a statistically significant flux of meteors, including both sporadic ones, and events produced by different meteor streams. Being unaffected by adverse weather conditions, JEM-EUSO can also be a very important facility for the detection of bright meteors and fireballs, as these events can be detected even in conditions of very high sky background. In the case of bright events, moreover, exhibiting some persistence of the meteor train, preliminary simulations show that it should be possible to exploit the motion of the ISS itself and derive at least a rough 3D reconstruction of the meteor trajectory. Moreover, the observing strategy developed to detect meteors may also be applied to the detection of nuclearites, exotic particles whose existence has been suggested by some theoretical investigations. Nuclearites are expected to move at higher velocities than meteoroids, and to exhibit a wider range of possible trajectories, including particles moving upward after crossing the Earth. Some pilot studies, including the approved Mini-EUSO mission, a precursor of JEM-EUSO, are currently operational or in preparation. We are doing simulations to assess the performance of Mini-EUSO for meteor studies, while a few meteor events have been already detected using the ground-based facility EUSO-TA. (10.1016/j.pss.2016.12.001)
  DOI : 10.1016/j.pss.2016.12.001