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Design and implementation of the Front End Board for the readout of the ATLAS liquid argon calorimeters
N J Buchanan1, L Chen1, D M Gingrich1, S Liu1, H Chen2, J Farrell2, J Kierstead2, F Lanni2, D Lissauer2, H Ma2, D Makowiecki2, V Radeka2, S Rescia2, H Takai2, H Ghazlane3, A Hoummada3, H G Wilkens4, J Ban5, S Boettcher5, G Brooijmans5, C -Y Chi5, S Caughron5, M Cooke5, D Dannheim5, A Gara5, A Haas5, I Katsanos5, J A Parsons5, S Simion5, W Sippach5, L Zhang5, N Zhou5, E Ladygin6, E Auge7, R Bernier7, M Bouchel7, A Bozzone7, D Breton7, C de la Taille7, I Falleau7, P Imbert7, G Martin-Chassard7, A Perus7, J P Richer7, V Tocut7, J-J Veillet7, D Zerwas7, F Hubaut8, B Laforge8, O Le Dortz8, D Martin8, Ph Schwemling8, J Collot9, D Dzahini9, M -L Gallin-Martel9, P Martin9, W D Cwienk10, J Fent10, L Kurchaninov10, G Battistoni11, L Carminati11, M Citterio11, W Cleland12, B Liu12, J Rabel12, G Zuk12, K Benslama13, E Delagnes14, B Mansoulié14, J Teiger14, B Dinkespiler15, T Liu15, R Stroynowski15, C -A Yang15, J Ye15, M L Chu16, S -C Lee16 and P K Teng16
Published 26 March 2008 •
Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd
Journal of Instrumentation,
Volume 3,
March 2008
Citation N J Buchanan et al 2008 JINST3 P03004DOI 10.1088/1748-0221/3/03/P03004
The ATLAS detector has been designed for operation at CERN's Large
Hadron Collider. ATLAS includes a complex system of liquid argon
calorimeters. The electronics for amplifying, shaping, sampling, pipelining,
and digitizing the calorimeter signals is implemented on the
Front End Boards (FEBs). This paper describes the design, implementation
and production of the FEBs and presents measurement results from testing
performed at several stages during the production process.
