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Prototype electronics for the silicon pad layers of the future Forward Calorimeter (FoCal) of the ALICE experiment at the LHC

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Published 24 April 2023 © 2023 CERN
, , Citation O. Bourrion et al 2023 JINST 18 P04031 DOI 10.1088/1748-0221/18/04/P04031

1748-0221/18/04/P04031

Abstract

A Forward Calorimeter (FoCal) has been proposed as part of the ALICE upgrades for data taking from 2029 onwards. The FoCal will feature a sampling electromagnetic calorimeter segmented into 110 towers supplemented by a hadron calorimeter. The electromagnetic calorimeter will be composed of 20 passive layers of tungsten absorber interleaved with 18 active layers of low-granularity silicon pad sensors and two layers of high-granularity pixel detectors. Each pad layer will be read out by 110 silicon pad sensors of 72 channels, amounting to a total of 1980 sensors. This paper describes, from front-end to back-end, the electronics developed to instrument a tower prototype composed of 18 silicon pad sensors as well as a design proposal for the full-detector readout system.

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