The FAZIA setup: A review on the electronics and the mechanical mounting

• Published in: Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment Vol. 930; pp. 27 - 36
• Main Authors: Valdré, S., Casini, G., Le Neindre, N., Bini, M., Boiano, A., Borderie, B., Edelbruck, P., Poggi, G., Salomon, F., Tortone, G., Alba, R., Barlini, S., Bonnet, E., Bougard, B., Bougault, R., Brulin, G., Bruno, M., Buccola, A., Camaiani, A., Chbihi, A., Ciampi, C., Cicerchia, M., Cinausero, M., Dell’Aquila, D., Desrues, P., Dueñas, J.A., Fabris, D., Falorsi, M., Frankland, J.D., Frosin, C., Galichet, E., Giordano, R., Gramegna, F., Grassi, L., Gruyer, D., Guerzoni, M., Henri, M., Kajetanowicz, M., Korcyl, K., Kordyasz, A., Kozik, T., Lecomte, P., Lombardo, I., Lopez, O., Maiolino, C., Mantovani, G., Marchi, T., Margotti, A., Merrer, Y., Morelli, L., Olmi, A., Ordine, A., Ottanelli, P., Pain, C., Pałka, M., Pârlog, M., Pasquali, G., Pastore, G., Piantelli, S., de Préaumont, H., Revenko, R., Richard, A., Rivet, M.F., Ropert, J., Rosato, E., Saillant, F., Santonocito, D., Scarlini, E., Serra, S., Soulet, C., Spadaccini, G., Stefanini, A.A., Tobia, G., Upadhyaya, S., Vanzanella, A., Verde, G., Vient, E., Vigilante, M., Wanlin, E., Wittwer, G., Zucchini, A.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier B.V 21.06.2019; Elsevier
• Subjects: Data acquisition; FAZIA; Front-end electronics; Heavy-ion reactions; Instrumentation and Detectors; Nuclear Experiment; Nuclear physics; Physics; Telescope array; Heavy-ion reactions; Front-end electronics; Data acquisition; FAZIA; Nuclear physics; Telescope array; 29.85.Ca; telescope array; front-end electronics; 29.40.Wk
• ISSN: 0168-9002; 1872-9576
• DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2019.03.082

In this paper the technological aspects of the FAZIA array will be explored. After a productive commissioning phase, FAZIA blocks started to measure and give very useful data to explore the physics of Fermi energy heavy-ion reactions. This was possible thanks to many technical measures and innovations developed in the commissioning phase and tuned during the first experimental campaigns. This paper gives a detailed description of the present status of the FAZIA setup from the electronic and mechanical point of view, trying also to trace a path for new improvements and refinements of the apparatus.