%0 Journal Article
%T A Readout System for the STAR Time Projection Chamber
%A M. Anderson
%A R. Bossingham
%A F. Bieser
%A D. Cebra
%A E. L. Hjort
%A S. R. Klein
%A C. Q. Vu
%A H. Wieman
%J Physics
%D 2002
%I arXiv
%R 10.1016/S0168-9002(02)01965-4
%X We describe the readout electronics for the STAR Time Projection Chamber. The system is made up of 136,608 channels of waveform digitizer, each sampling 512 time samples at 6-12 Mega-samples per second. The noise level is about 1000 electrons, and the dynamic range is 800:1, allowing for good energy loss ($dE/dx$) measurement for particles with energy losses up to 40 times minimum ionizing. The system is functioning well, with more than 99% of the channels working within specifications.
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/nucl-ex/0205014v1