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An Analog Level 1 Trigger Prototype for CTA
Year:2013

Research Areas
  • Electronic technology and of the communications

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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
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JCR
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Title
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON NUCLEAR SCIENCE
ISBN
0018-9499
Impact factor JCR
1,447
Impact info
Volume
60
10.1109/TNS.2012.2226246
Journal number
1
From page
251
To page
258
Month
FEBRERO
Ranking
0
Participants
  • Autor: Luis Ángel Tejedor Universidad Complutense de Madrid
  • Autor: Juan A. Barrio Universidad Complutense
  • Autor: José L. Lemus Universidad Complutense de Madrid
  • Autor: Carlos Delgado CIEMAT
  • Autor: Jose Ignacio Alonso Montes UPM

Research Group, Departaments and Institutes related
  • Creador: Grupo de Investigación: Microondas y Radar
  • Departamento: Señales, Sistemas y Radiocomunicaciones