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The NA62 liquid Krypton calorimeter's new readout system

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Published 24 January 2014 © CERN 2014
, , Citation A Ceccucci et al 2014 JINST 9 C01047 DOI 10.1088/1748-0221/9/01/C01047

1748-0221/9/01/C01047

Abstract

The NA62 experiment [1] at CERN SPS (Super Proton Synchrotron) accelerator aims at studying Kaon decays with high precision. The high resolution Liquid Krypton (LKr) calorimeter, built for the NA48 [2] experiment, is a crucial part of the experiment photon-veto system; to cope with the new requirements, the back-end electronics of the LKr had to be completely renewed.

Due to the huge number of the calorimeter readout channels ( ∼ 14 K) and the maintenance requirement over 10 years of the experiment lifetime, the decision to sub-contract the development and production to industry was taken in 2011. This paper presents the primary test results of the Calorimeter REAdout Module (CREAM) [3] prototype delivered by the manufacturer in March 2013. All essential features, analog performance, data processing and readout, are covered.

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