25–29 May 2026
La Biodola - Isola d'Elba (Italy)
Europe/Rome timezone
NB: The submission deadline for the Student Paper Awards is Monday, 11 May.

An all-in-one front-end board for the streaming readout of gaseous detectors used in experimental physics

29 May 2026, 09:40
20m
Maria Luisa Room (Hotel Hermitage)

Maria Luisa Room

Hotel Hermitage

Oral presentation Front-End Electronics, Fast Digitizers, Fast Transfer Links & Networks Front-End Electronics, Fast Digitizers, Fast Transfer Links & Networks

Speaker

Lakmin Wickremasinghe (RCNP, The University of Osaka)

Description

The need for continuous measurement without triggering events, known as streaming data acquisition, is crucial for many experiments nuclear, particle, and cosmic ray physics. In Japan, the SPADI alliance provides complete streaming readout systems from front-end hardware to the data acquisition software, and is designed to be easily deployable and scalable. While several candidates for front-end hardware exists in the SPADI alliance, the current system to readout from gaseous detectors is split into two parts; the AGASA based analog front-end board, and the AMANEQ TDC (digital front-end) module. However, this system could be improved in several aspects such as its size, cooling, cost, cabling, and many more. Hence, we designed a new all-in-one board, named STAG (streaming readout with AGASA for gaseous detectors), which combines the analog front-end and digital front-end to one module. This greatly reduced the size of the front-ends, but also satisfies the other constraints faced by the current system. Further, to satisfy the streaming readout capabilities, this board is designed to handle data rates up to a few Mcps, and a TDC resolution of 200~300 ps. This talk will present about the development, evaluation and the future plan of the STAG board, and the related streaming readout system.

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Author

Lakmin Wickremasinghe (RCNP, The University of Osaka)

Co-authors

Hidetada Baba Masahiro Ikeno (RCNP, The University of Osaka) Masaya Miyahara (KEK) Nobuyuki Kobayashi (RCNP, The University of Osaka) Ryotaro Honda (KEK IPNS) Shinsuke Ota (RCNP, Osaka University)

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