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T: Fachverband Teilchenphysik

T 72: Postersitzung Teilchenphysik

T 72.3: Poster

Tuesday, March 28, 2017, 16:45–19:00, F Foyer

TARGET, An Integrated Readout Electronics for Cherenkov Telescopes — David Jankowsky¹, •Adrian Zink¹, Manuel Kraus¹, Jacky Catalano¹, Manuel Loos¹, Johannes Schäfer¹, Stefan Funk¹, Luigi Tibaldo², Gary Varner³, and the CTA Consortium⁴ — ¹Erlangen Centre for Astroparticle Physics (ECAP) — ²Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Heidelberg — ³Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Hawaii — ⁴Full consortium author list at http://cta-observatory.org

TARGET is an Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) designed for the readout of different photosensors in various types of experiments. The ASIC is capable of sampling at high rates (typically 1 GSamples/s), digitizing with 12-bit precision and to supply trigger information. The small package size, high integration (16 channels/ASIC), deep buffer for trigger latency (16k samples) and low cost per channel make TARGET an excellent candidate for systems with large number of telescopes equipped with a compact silicon and multi-anode photomultipliers, like the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA). The TARGET concept and performance studies of the newest generation will be presented.