WaveCatcher and SAMPIC International Workshop

Liste des Contributions

2. Introduction

Jihane Maalmi (CNRS-LAL)

07/02/2018 09:30

Session 1

3. WaveCatcher and SAMPIC Systems

Dominique Breton (CNRS-LAL)

07/02/2018 09:40

Session 1

The WaveCatcher systems are a family of powerful and low cost digitizers. Their number of channels currently ranges between 2 and 64 (+8) channels.
They all make use of the SAMLONG analog memory chips which permit sampling the input signal between 400 MS/s and 3.2 GS/s over 12 bits and with a signal bandwidth of 500 MHz.
There are 4 different types of systems:
• 2-channel, USB-powered handy...

4. Using WaveCatcher for Quality Control

Oscar De la Torre Perez (University of Barcelona)

07/02/2018 10:10

Session 1

The Technological Unit of the Institute of Cosmos Science of the Universitat of Barcelona (ICCUB) is specialized in developing microelectronics for applications in which low noise and high bandwdith are key features. We currently have different test setups equipped with both 8 and 16 channel WaveCatchers, including ASICs' tests for the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) and the LHCb projects, as...

5. Wavecatcher Boards for Calorimeter Electronic readout at SuperNEMO

Guillaume Oliviero (LPC-Caen)

07/02/2018 10:35

Session 1

The SuperNEMO experiment goal is to probe the nature of the neutrino through the neutrinoless double beta decay research. It uses the so-called tracko-calo technique which allows not only to measure the energy of particle traversing the detector but also to reconstruct their track, time of flight and full kinematic.
Specific boards using Wavecatcher architechture are used...

7. WaveCatcher analysis software development and aplications

Andrii Natochii (CNRS-LAL), Leonid Burmistrov (CNRS - LAL)

07/02/2018 11:20

Session 2

Within this work we shortly represent analysis software for WaveCatcher raw data treatment. The software is based on C++ and root libraries, bash is used to run analysis scrips.
Different modules are developed for binary/ASCII and/or measurements/rates/waveform treatment.
The analysis path have tree main steps :
1) Conversion of WaveCatcher raw data into the root format.
2.1) waveform analysis...

6. Proton flux monitor(s) for the UA9 Experiment

Sebastien Dubos (CNRS-LAL)

07/02/2018 11:45

Session 2

The possible use of bent crystals for beam-manipulation in particle accelerators is currently investigated by the UA9 collaboration at CERN. One application could be the upgrade of collimation system for hardron colliders such as LHC - with an improved cleaning efficiency of the beam halo and a reduced impedance of the machine.
Investigation of this channeling process close to a circulating...

8. Linux WaveCatcher Interface at IPN and its future developments

Tijani Id barkach (IPNO)

07/02/2018 12:10

Session 2

The institute of Nuclear Physics of Orsay is a leader
laboratory for the developpement of silicon detectors devoted to
ion detection. A main approach of its researches is related to the
use of the current signal shape to identify the particle. For the
purpose of putting together testing means for the AGAT
experiment and the GASPARD project, the IPN and the CSNSM
have created a LINUX interface...

9. Use of a diamond-detector and Wavecatcher for real-time monitoring of gamma beams

Themis Williams (CNRS-LAL)

07/02/2018 12:35

Session 2

We are developing a real-time monitoring system using a diamond-detector and a Wavecatcher to characterise the gamma source at ELI-NP, a new nuclear research facility in Romania. The main technological challenge is to obtain the necessary information from 32 consecutive pulses of gammas separated from one another by 16 ns. Two preliminary experiments have been performed at existing Compton...

10. Almost all about SAMPIC

Eric Delagnes (CEA)

07/02/2018 14:15

Session 3

The SAMPIC chip is based on the concept of the Waveform Time to Digital converter introduced in 2013. It permits performing high precision timing measurements on detector signals computed from the waveform digitized at a several GSamples/s rate over a window defined by a trigger which can be defined internally or sent from outside. Since the first version of SAMPIC that proved the WTDC...

11. Sampling the signal from timing detectors for Totem at LHC

Edoardo Bossini (CERN)

07/02/2018 14:45

Session 3

Totem and CMS have developed sensors for timing measurements in the forward region.
Two different sensor technologies are actually employed, sCVD diamond and UFSD (Ultra Fast Silicon Detectors).
In both cases we have signals with edge time in the range 0.5-1 ns. In the joint CT-PPS detector, used in standard LHC run, the signals are readout by means of a fast discriminator (NINO) coupled to...

12. Application of WaveCatcher/SAMPIC digitizers for the readout of a plastic scintillator based ToF detector

Alexander Korzenev (University of Geneva)

07/02/2018 15:10

Session 3

Plastic scintillator detectors have been extensively used in particle physics experiments for decades.
In large-scale experiments, they are typically arranged as an array of staggered long bars covering a large surface and provide a fast trigger signal or particle identification.
This technology is proposed for the timing detector of the SHiP experiment at CERN SPS. Results of test-beams are...

13. Experience form the HGTD timing application on laboratory and test beam environmen

Vagelis Gkougkousis (University of Barcelona)

07/02/2018 15:35

Session 3

Using a 16 channel 8Gs/s Sampic board, a study of the achieved time resolution limit is performed for a reference Low Gain Avalanche Diode Setup. Using constant fraction linear extrapolation, a 42 psec time resolution is achieved for a pair of identical sensors and without any single fitting technics. Calibration and trigger corrections are applied while comparison with a 20Gs/s oscilloscope...

14. Digital Readout Board for CMS and TOTEM Precision Proton Spectrometer Timing Upgrade Project

Gueorgui Antchev (CERN)

07/02/2018 16:30

Session 4

For the CMS and TOTEM Precision Proton Spectrometer Project, a digital readout board was
designed to take front-end data of the Diamond and Ultra-Fast Silicon Detectors, reformat the data timing packets, and transmit them to the CMS and TOTEM data acquisition systems through optical data links. This board is capable of having SAMPIC or HPTDC mezzanines for high-resolution timing measurement of...

15. Synchronization of multiple V1743 digitizer boards

Carlo Tintori (CAEN SPA)

07/02/2018 16:55

Session 4

It is often necessary to perform a full synchronisation of multiple digitizer boards. This talk will present the way to:
- distribute the same clock to the boards
- make simultaneous start of the acquisition
- distribute the trigger signal in triggered or trigger-less systems
- keep the events synchronized across the boards

16. The WaveCatcher in the DAQ of the UA9 Experiment

Simone Montesano (CERN)

07/02/2018 17:20

Session 4

The UA9 Experiment investigates the use of components based on bent crystals in particle accelerators to improve the performance of beam steering and beam collimation.
The main installation of the experiment is in the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron and is composed of a dozen of beam-intercepting devices, few tens beam loss monitors and few beam-intercepting Cherenkov and pixel detectors.
In the...

26. An instrumented absorber detector for hadronic interaction measurements

Francesco Iacoangeli (INFN / Roma)

07/02/2018 17:45

Session 4

A new generation of parasitic beam extraction of high energy particles from an accelerator is proposed in CRYSBEAM. Instead of massive magnetic kickers, bent thin crystals trapping particles within the crystal lattice planes are used. This type of beam manipulation opens new fields of investigation of fundamental interactions between particles and of coherent interactions between particles and...

18. Use of the WaveCatcher as a standalone and portable acquisition system in a reactor building during a radiation protection detector R&D

Cédric Cerna (CNRS / CENBG)

08/02/2018 09:30

Session 5

In the framework of the development of a radiation protection detector, the Wavecatcher acquisition board was used as a portable system with a battery and a laptop. The oscilloscope, the scaler counter, and the waveform recording features were used.

19. High speed time-resolved MOKE experiment for the investigation of ultrafast magnetic dynamics

Boris Vodungbo (CNRS / UPMC)

08/02/2018 09:50

Session 5

20. WaveCatcher based machine protection tools for the commissioning of the ELI‐NP gamma beam system

Stefano Pioli (INFN / Frascati)

08/02/2018 10:15

Session 5

The new Gamma Beam System (GBS), within the ELI‐NP project, under installation in Magurele (RO) by INFN, as part of EuroGammaS consortium, can provide gamma rays that open new possibilities for nuclear photonics and nuclear physics.
ELI‐GBS gamma rays are produced by Compton back‐scattering to get monochromaticity (0,1% bandwidth), high flux (1013 photon/s the highest in the world), tunable...

21. Precise Timing - the route to better PET images

Crispin Williams (CERN)

08/02/2018 14:15

Session 6

PET imaging relies on the detection of two back-to-back 511 keV gamma photons. A line is constructed connecting the detection points of these two gamma (known as the line of reaction (LOR)). The image is constructed by analysing all these lines. If the time-of-arrival of the two gamma photons is precisely measured, this line is shortened to be just a line segment, with more precise timing...

22. Use of SAMPIC for PET development at IRFU

Viatcheslav SHARYY (CEA / IRFU)

08/02/2018 14:40

Session 6

Authors: V. Sharyy, C. Canot, P. Abbon and D. Yvon

CaLIPSO group at IRFU investigates the feasibility to use the Cherenkov radiation
to enhance the TOF performance of the PET scanners.
Two projects are under development. CaLIPSO project investigates the possibility to build the brain
and pre-clinical PET device with a high spatial resolution of the order of 1 mm3.
It uses an innovative...

23. Ultra-fast timing with diamond detectors for online ion range verification in hadrontherapy

Sébastien Curtoni (CNRS / LPSC)

08/02/2018 15:05

Session 6

Authors; S Curtoni, A Bes , G Bosson , J Collot , D Dauvergne , M Fontana, L Gallin-Martel ,
M-L Gallin-Martel , J-Y Hostachy, A Lacoste, S Marcatili, J Morse , J-F Muraz , F.E. Rarbi ,
M Salomé, E Testa , M Yamouni

Hadrontherapy can be defined as radiotherapy by means of proton or light ion beams. This alternative technique enables a highly localized dose deposition and better organ-at-risk...

24. WaveCatcher electronics for the Very-High-Energy Gamma-Ray large field observatory ALTO: from tests to prototypes and implementation possibilities

Michael Punch (APC-CNRS/Linnaeus University)

08/02/2018 16:00

Session 7

ALTO is a wide field-of-view air shower array for very-high-energy (VHE) gamma-ray astronomy, proposed to be installed in the Southern Hemisphere at an altitude of ~ 5 km above sea level. The current project is an array of 1248 Detection Units (DU) distributed in 208 clusters of 6 DUs. A DU consists in 2 detectors separated by a concrete layer serving as electron/gamma shielding: above the...

25. Pulse shape analysis in highly segmented Silicon detectors with WaveCatcher

Laura Grassi (CNRS / IPNO)

08/02/2018 16:25

Session 7

The GASPARD-GRIT (Granularity Resolution Identification Transparency) international project is aiming at developing a four pi Silicon array to be coupled with the new generation of gamma arrays, like AGATA and PARIS. Constraints on compactness and transparency to gamma make it very challenging. In particular, new techniques based on pulse shape analysis (PSA) have been implemented in order to...

17. Using Narval for the DAQ of the WaveCatcher for GASPARD

Vincent Lafage (IPNO)

08/02/2018 16:50

Session 7

After a quick description & history of DCOD (Narval+ENX, next
generation) acquisition & slow control system,
we will address its application to GASPARD/Wavecatcher, how it helps addressing the increasing of channel and data throughput, how it integrates within various experimental setup. We will also address how it eased the reuse of CORTO setup for GASPARD/Wavecatcher

1. Conclusion

Jihane Maalmi (CNRS-LAL)

08/02/2018 17:15