NDLI: A cold discharge mechanism for low-noise fast charge amplifiers

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Author	Pullia, A. Bassini, R. Boiano, C. Brambilla, S.
Copyright Year	1963
Abstract	We present a new discharge mechanism for low-noise fast preamplifiers for /spl gamma/-ray spectroscopy. Such circuital solution has been conceived in the framework of the INFN Mars experiment, which imposes stringent requirements for both the signal-to-noise ratio and the rise time of the front-end preamplifiers. Basically, a noninverting low-gain (G) stage is interposed between the output of a conventional charge amplifier and the high-value feedback resistor. It can be easily found that this adds no noise but the discharge time constant is reduced by a factor G, because the voltage drop across the resistor is G times as high, and such is the discharge current. A similar effect could also be obtained in the standard charge amplifier by diminishing the feedback resistor by a factor G. But this would yield an increase of a factor G of its thermal current noise. In this sense our equivalent discharge resistor is "cold", because it carries a current noise G times as low. This permits us to use a relatively large feedback capacitance which inherently yields a fast risetime. A rise time of 15 ns and an overall electronic noise of 1.03 keV FWNM at 3 /spl mu/s shaping time have been obtained, with an input capacitance of 33 pF, and 1.5 pF feedback capacitor, 150 /spl mu/s discharge time constant.
Sponsorship	IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society Computer Applications in Nuclear and Plasma Sciences (CANPS) Lawrence Berkeley Lab. Lawrence Livermore Nat. Lab. APS College of William and Mary Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility NASA Defence Nuclear Agency Sandia National Laboratories Jet Propulsion Laboratory Brookhaven Nat. Lab. Lawrence Livermore Nat. Lab IEEE/NPPS Radiat. Effects Committee Defence Nuclear Agency/DoD Sandia National Laboratories/DOE Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA Phillips Lab./DoD
Starting Page	530
Ending Page	534
Page Count	5
File Size	91617
File Format	PDF
ISSN	00189499
Volume Number	48
Issue Number	3
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2001-06-01
Publisher Place	U.S.A.
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Resistors Preamplifiers Noise shaping Capacitance Spectroscopy Circuits Mars Signal to noise ratio Output feedback Noise reduction
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Nuclear and High Energy Physics Electrical and Electronic Engineering Nuclear Energy and Engineering

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