The laboratory course program presented in this paper (96 h in total) aims to give undergraduate students of experimental physics the necessary knowledge to build and manage a complete experimental setup for the readout of a particle detector. Students learn to understand and operate silicon photosensors (SiPMs) in single photon regime; to amplify and shape their analogue signals with feedbacked operational amplifiers; to digitise and trigger them with a microcontroller; and to transmit waveforms via UART on a PC running MATLAB, where they can build typical 'comb-like' SiPM spectra that allow to discern single photoelectrons.

Carniti, P., Gotti, C., Pessina, G. (2022). A laboratory course on detector readout for undergraduate students of experimental physics. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICS, 43(3) [10.1088/1361-6404/ac5639].

A laboratory course on detector readout for undergraduate students of experimental physics

Paolo Carniti;Claudio Gotti
;
Gianluigi Pessina
2022

Abstract

The laboratory course program presented in this paper (96 h in total) aims to give undergraduate students of experimental physics the necessary knowledge to build and manage a complete experimental setup for the readout of a particle detector. Students learn to understand and operate silicon photosensors (SiPMs) in single photon regime; to amplify and shape their analogue signals with feedbacked operational amplifiers; to digitise and trigger them with a microcontroller; and to transmit waveforms via UART on a PC running MATLAB, where they can build typical 'comb-like' SiPM spectra that allow to discern single photoelectrons.
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data acquisition system; laboratory course; microcontrollers; operational amplifiers; single photon sensor; SiPM;
English
2022
43
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Carniti, P., Gotti, C., Pessina, G. (2022). A laboratory course on detector readout for undergraduate students of experimental physics. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICS, 43(3) [10.1088/1361-6404/ac5639].
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