The silicon tracker/converter for the gamma-ray large area space telescope

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Oct 1999

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1999nimpa.435..224a&link_type=abstract

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A, Volume 435, Issue 1-2, p. 224-232.

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The Silicon Tracker/Converter of the Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST) will have an active area of 80m2, representing one of the largest planned applications of the silicon-strip detector technology. The large number of channels (1.3 million) to read out, together with the requirement that the tracker provide the trigger to the data acquisition, force the readout electronics to be of very low noise. Furthermore, to fit into the power constraints of the satellite environment, the electronics must have an ultra-low power consumption. To fulfill these requirements, plus others imposed by the space environment, such as redundancy, a mixed mode CMOS front-end readout chip and a digital readout controller chip have been designed and prototyped. In this article, we present the status of the readout electronics and the results from a test-beam study with a small GLAST tracker prototype.

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