In this paper, a versatile time and charge measurement(MQT) board for muon tomography is described in detail. For time measurement, the general-purpose timeto-digital converter(TDC) chip TDC-GP2 is employed,while for ...In this paper, a versatile time and charge measurement(MQT) board for muon tomography is described in detail. For time measurement, the general-purpose timeto-digital converter(TDC) chip TDC-GP2 is employed,while for charge measurement, digitization plus numerical integration in field programmable gate array is employed.Electronic tests demonstrate that the total 32 channels of two MQT boards have a time resolution of superior than100 ps, with excellent linearity for time and charge measurement.展开更多
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.11005108)
文摘In this paper, a versatile time and charge measurement(MQT) board for muon tomography is described in detail. For time measurement, the general-purpose timeto-digital converter(TDC) chip TDC-GP2 is employed,while for charge measurement, digitization plus numerical integration in field programmable gate array is employed.Electronic tests demonstrate that the total 32 channels of two MQT boards have a time resolution of superior than100 ps, with excellent linearity for time and charge measurement.
