| SCIPP 94/34 October 1994 (2007) | |||||||||||||
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| . We report the results of a beam test using double-sided ACcoupled silicon microstrip detectors with binary readout, i.e., a readout where the signals are discriminated in the front-end electronics and only the hit location as kept. For strip pitch between 50µm and 200µm, we determine the efficiency and the noise background as function of threshold setting. This allows us to reconstruct the Landau pulse height spectrum and determine the signal/noise ratio. In addition, the threshold/noise ratio necessary for operation with low occupancy is determined. I. INTRODUCTION In proposed silicon tracking detectors at future large hadron colliders [1], the front end electronics (FEE) has to be efficient and has to control the noise background in the anticipated large number of channels. One possible choice is the so-called "binary read-out" where the pulse from the silicon detector is amplified and then compared with a threshold, preferably in the same ASIC chip to preserve the matching of th... | |||||||||||||
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