Development of the pulse-shape discrimination LSI for Astro-E hard X-ray detector

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作者
Ezawa, H [1 ]
Hirayama, M [1 ]
Kamae, T [1 ]
Kubo, H [1 ]
Matsuzaki, K [1 ]
Nagata, K [1 ]
Saito, Y [1 ]
Ikeda, H [1 ]
Tsukada, K [1 ]
Ozawa, H [1 ]
Takahashi, T [1 ]
Murakami, H [1 ]
Sano, Y [1 ]
Shimizu, K [1 ]
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[1] RIKKYO UNIV,DEPT PHYS,TOKYO 171,JAPAN
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10.1109/23.507096
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TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
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0808 ; 0809 ;
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We have developed a pulse-shape discrimination LSI for Astro-E Hard X-ray Detector (HXD). In the detector, the X-ray and non X-ray background will be reduced drastically by use of well-type phoswich counters in the compound-eye configuration. The well-type phoswich counter will use GSO(Ce) or YAP(Ce) scintillator for its detection part, and well-shaped EGO for the shielding part. The pulse-shape discriminator (PSD) described here will be used to select clean hits on the detection part, rejecting those deposited some energy in EGO. The PSD is designed as a bipolar semi-custom LSI to reduce its power consumption and size, and to enhance its reliability. The first delivery of the PSD-LSI has been tested to be acceptable for Astro-E HXD.
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