https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/s10050-023-01045-0
Regular Article – Experimental Physics
AGATA phase 2 advancements in front-end electronics
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Departamento de Ingeniería Electrónica, Universitat de Valencia, Burjassot, 46100, Valencia, Spain
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INFN Sezione di Milano, 20133, Milan, Italy
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Dipartimento di Fisica, Universitá di Milano, 20133, Milan, Italy
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Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, 91405, Orsay, France
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Grand Accélérateur National d’Ions Lourds, CEA/DRF-CNRS/IN2P3, 14076, Caen cedex 5, France
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STFC, Daresbury Laboratory, WA4 4AD, Daresbury, UK
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INFN Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, 35020, Legnaro, Italy
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Université de Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, UMR5822, IP2I, 69622, Villeurbanne Cedex, France
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Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, IPHC UMR 7178, F-67000, Strasbourg, France
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Department of Computer Science, ETH Zürich, 8092, Zürich, Switzerland
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Technical University of Denmark, 2800 Kgs., Lyngby, Denmark
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Instituto de Fśica Corpuscular, CSIC-University of Valencia, 46980, Valencia, Spain
Received:
21
March
2023
Accepted:
26
May
2023
Published online:
19
June
2023
The AGATA collaboration has a long-standing leadership in the development of front-end electronics for high resolution 
-ray spectroscopy using large volume high purity germanium detectors. For two decades, the AGATA collaboration has been developing state-of-the-art digital electronics processing with high resolution sampling ADC, high-speed signal transfer and fast readout to a high throughput computing (HTC) farm for on-line pulse shape analysis. The collaboration is presently addressing the next challenge of equipping a 4
array with more than 6000 channels in high resolution mode, generating approximately 10 MHz of total trigger requests, coupled to a large variety of complementary instruments. A next generation of front-end electronics, presently under design, is based on industrial products (System on Module FPGA’s), has higher integration and lower power consumption. In this contribution, the conceptual design of the new electronics is presented. The results of the very first tests of the pre-production electronics are presented as well as future perspectives.
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