Experience with the SVX-H chip in the construction of the L3 Silicon Microvertex Detector

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Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment

Volume 344, Issue 1, 21 April 1994, Pages 216-219

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Abstract

The SVX is a charge preamplifier with a sample and hold stage and sparse readout capability developed at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory. The SVX radiation hard version has been used by the SMD collaboration to build the L3 Silicon Microvertex Detector where double-sided AC coupled silicon sensors are read out. The SVX-H test procedure in the SMD detector assembly phase will be described as well as the obtained results.

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V. Readout electronics and triggerExperience with the SVX-H chip in the construction of the L3 Silicon Microvertex Detector

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V. Readout electronics and trigger
Experience with the SVX-H chip in the construction of the L3 Silicon Microvertex Detector