Memorias de investigación
Research Publications in journals:
An Analog Level 1 Prototype for CTA
Year:2013

Research Areas
  • Physics - High energies - Experiment,
  • Future experiments,
  • Electric engineers, electronic and automatic (eil),
  • Electronic circuits,
  • Design of analogic electronic systems,
  • Electronic instrumentation

Information
Abstract
The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) project aims to build the largest ground-based gamma ray observatory based on an array of Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes. The CTA will implement a multi-level trigger system to distinguish between the gamma ray-like induced showers and the background images induced by night sky background light. The trigger system is based on looking for coincident detections among pixels (level 0 trigger), clusters of pixels (level 1) or telescopes (level 2). In this article one prototype of a Level 1 trigger system is presented, capable of working with different Level 0 strategies and different trigger region sizes. At the same time it complies with all the requirements specified by the CTA project, specially the most critical ones as regards noise, dynamic range, latency and power consumption. All these features make the presented system very suitable to be used by the CTA telescopes.
International
Si
JCR
Si
Title
Ieee Transactions on Nuclear Science
ISBN
0018-9499
Impact factor JCR
1,219
Impact info
Datos JCR del año 2012
Volume
60
10.1109/TNS.2012.2226246
Journal number
1
From page
251
To page
258
Month
ENERO
Ranking
Participants
  • Autor: Luis Angel Tejedor Alvarez UPM
  • Autor: Juan Abel Barrio Uña Universidad Complutense de Madrid
  • Autor: José Luis Lemus Martín Universidad Complutense de Madrid
  • Autor: Carlos Delgado Méndez Ciemat
  • Autor: Jose Ignacio Alonso Montes UPM

Research Group, Departaments and Institutes related
  • Creador: Departamento: Señales, Sistemas y Radiocomunicaciones