@inproceedings{c5fdd624a3f24a85845b63eae22f9ac9,
title = "Upgrade of the D{\O} Luminosity Monitor readout system",
abstract = "We describe upgrades to the readout system for the D{\O} Luminosity Monitor. The D{\O} Luminosity Monitor consists of plastic scintillation detectors with fine-mesh photomultiplier readout that cover the pseudorapidity range 2.7 < |η| 4.4. The detector is designed to provide a precise measurement of the rate for non-diffractive inelastic collisions that is used to calculate the TeVatron luminosity at D{\O}. The new readout system is based on custom VME electronics that make precise timeof-flight and charge measurements for each luminosity counter. These measurements are used to identify beam crossings with non-diffractive interactions by requiring in-time hits in both the forward and backward luminosity counters. We have also significantly increased signal/noise for the photomultiplier signals by developing a new front-end preamplifier and improving the grounding scheme.",
author = "John Anderson and Lloyd Bridges and Brendan Casey and Yuji Enari and Johnny Green and Marvin Johnson and Rick Kwarciany and Miao, {Chyi Chiang} and Richard Partridge and Yoo, {Hwi Dong} and Jigang Wang",
year = "2006",
month = jan,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1109/NSSMIC.2006.356207",
language = "English",
isbn = "1424405610",
series = "IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record",
publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.",
pages = "503--506",
booktitle = "2006 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium - Conference Record",
address = "United States",
note = "2006 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium, Medical Imaging Conference and 15th International Workshop on Room-Temperature Semiconductor X- and Gamma-Ray Detectors, Special Focus Workshops, NSS/MIC/RTSD ; Conference date: 29-10-2006 Through 04-11-2006",
}