A novel PMT test system based on waveform sampling

作者:Yin, S.; Ma, L.; Ning, Z.; Qian, S.*; Wang, Y.; Jiang, X.; Wang, Z.; Yu, B.; Gao, F.; Zhu, Y.; Wang, Z.
来源:Journal of Instrumentation, 2018, 13(01): T01005.
DOI:10.1088/1748-0221/13/01/T01005

摘要

Comparing with the traditional test system based on a QDC and TDC and scaler, a test system based on waveform sampling is constructed for signal sampling of the 8"R5912 and the 20"R12860 Hamamatsu PMT in different energy states from single to multiple photoelectrons. In order to achieve high throughput and to reduce the dead time in data processing, the data acquisition software based on Lab VIEW is developed and runs with a parallel mechanism. The analysis algorithm is realized in Lab VIEW and the spectra of charge, amplitude, signal width and rising time are analyzed offline. The results from Charge-to-Digital Converter, Time-to-Digital Converter and waveform sampling are discussed in detailed comparison.