Radiation study of FPGAs with neutron beam for COMET Phase-I

Yu Nakazawa; Yuki Fujii; Eitaro Hamada; Myeong Jae Lee; Yuta Miyazaki; Akira Sato; Kazuki Ueno; Hisataka Yoshida; Jie Zhang

doi:10.1016/j.nima.2018.10.130

Radiation study of FPGAs with neutron beam for COMET Phase-I

Yu Nakazawa
, Yuki Fujii
, Eitaro Hamada
, Myeong Jae Lee
, Yuta Miyazaki
, Akira Sato
, Kazuki Ueno
, Hisataka Yoshida
, Jie Zhang

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Abstract

The COMET Phase-I experiment plans to search for muon to electron conversion. In order to get a good signal-to-noise ratio and time resolution, all the front-end readout boards are installed near the detector region where the radiation level is high. The radiation effects, in particular from neutrons, onto FPGA hardware will be a severe problem. We developed high reliable firmware with auto-recovery schemes for three different series of FPGAs, and evaluated them with a neutron beam. In these tests, soft error rates were measured and good performances of the schemes were demonstrated.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	351-352
Number of pages	2
Journal	Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
Volume	936
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2018.10.130
Publication status	Published - 2019
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

FPGA
Front-end electronics
Radiation tolerance

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