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Shi-Tao Xiang; Hao Liang

doi:10.1007/s41365-017-0183-1

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A time and charge measurement board for muon tomography of high-Z materials

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- A time and charge measurement board for muon tomography of high-Z materials
- Nuclear Science and Techniques Vol. 28, Issue 3, Article number: 40(2017)
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  1.State Key Laboratory of Particle Detection and Electronics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China
  2.Department of Modern Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China
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  Corresponding author. E-mail address: simonlh@ustc.edu.cn
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Shi-Tao Xiang, Hao Liang. A time and charge measurement board for muon tomography of high-Z materials. [J]. Nuclear Science and Techniques 28(3):40(2017)
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Shi-Tao Xiang, Hao Liang. A time and charge measurement board for muon tomography of high-Z materials. [J]. Nuclear Science and Techniques 28(3):40(2017) DOI： 10.1007/s41365-017-0183-1.

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In this paper, a versatile time and charge measurement (MQT) board for muon tomography is described in detail. For time measurement, the general-purpose time-to-digital converter (TDC) chip TDC-GP2 is employed; while for charge measurement, digitization plus numerical integration in field programmable gate array (FPGA) is employed. Electronic tests demonstrate that the total 32 channels of 2 MQT boards have a time resolution of superior than 100 ps, with excellent linearity for time and charge measurement.

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Time and charge measurementGeneral-purpose time-to-digital converter (TDC-GP2)muon tomography

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A time and charge measurement board for muon tomography of high-Z materials

DOI：10.1007/s41365-017-0183-1

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