Super conductor Supercollider front end electronics development; ring imaging Cerenkov studies; and warm liquid calorimetry. Final report

摘要

The University of Pennsylvania group that was involved in SDC was responsible, jointly with the KEK Laboratory in Japan, for the design and production of the readout electronics for the SDC straw tube tracker (a $12 million electronics effort). Their responsibilities included major contributions to the overall conceptual design, oversight of all the contributions from North America and direct responsibility for the HV/ASD assembly, the amplifier-shaper-discriminator chip, and HV distribution on the detector (the responsibility for the latter being shared with Colorado).