Digital signal processing for nuclear physics

Dott. Andrea Abba

English

1. Application of digital signal processing in nuclear physics

2. Particle detectors and analog front-end

3. Signal digitalization

4. Measuring position of interaction, energy and time of arrival

5. Energy measurement: 

     Digital Pulse Shape Analysis
     Trigger Circuit
     Baseline drift compensation
     Digital Filter Synthesis
     Pileup rejection
     Spectrum Calculation

6. High resolution time of arrival measurement
     TAC - time to amplitude converters
     TDC - time to digital converters
     Applications in high energy/neutron physics

7. Spatial detectors
     Position sense detectors (gamma camera/He3 position sense tube)
     energy and position of interaction reconstruction
     Pixelated detectors. SiPM MPPC detectors
     ASIC to readout pixelated detectors. 

     Usage of a Citiroc ASIC on DT5550W to reconstruct SiPM image of a laser spot

8. Custom firmware development with SciCompiler and detector emulator
     Design of digital logic for trigger
     Waveform digitalization
     Digital charge integration
     Trapezoidal filter
     Using of time correlation to isolate Na22 (emulated) source from the background
     Implementation of a 500ps resolution TDC



12 hours

Digital signal processing for nuclear physics

Dott. Andrea Abba

English

1. Application of digital signal processing in nuclear physics

2. Particle detectors and analog front-end

3. Signal digitalization

4. Measuring position of interaction, energy and time of arrival

5. Energy measurement: 

    Digital Pulse Shape Analysis
     Trigger Circuit
     Baseline drift compensation
     Digital Filter Synthesis
     Pileup rejection
     Spectrum Calculation

6. High resolution time of arrival measurement
     TAC - time to amplitude converters
     TDC - time to digital converters
     Applications in high energy/neutron physics

7. Spatial detectors
     Position sense detectors (gamma camera/He3 position sense tube)
     energy and position of interaction reconstruction
     Pixelated detectors. SiPM MPPC detectors
     ASIC to readout pixelated detectors. 

     Usage of a Citiroc ASIC on DT5550W to reconstruct SiPM image of a laser spot

8. Custom firmware development with SciCompiler and detector emulator
     Design of digital logic for trigger
     Waveform digitalization
     Digital charge integration
     Trapezoidal filter
     Using of time correlation to isolate Na22 (emulated) source from the background
     Implementation of a 500ps resolution TDC



12 hours

January- March

Staff

    Teacher

  • Andrea Abba

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