PHENIX MVD Subsystem Technical Notes - 1997

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• Tests of the MVD Beam Test Electronics with the Laser Station
  John Sullivan and Hubert van Hecke, February 10, 1997
  PHENIX-MVD-97-1, PHENIX Note #268, submitted February 1997
  

• Design and Performance of Beam Test Electronics for the PHENIX Multiplicity Vertex Detector
  C.L. Britton, Jr., W.L. Bryan, M.S. Emery, M.N. Ericson, M.S. Musrock, M.L. Simpson, M.C. Smith, J.W. Walker, A.L. Wintenberg, G.R. Young, M.D. Allen, L.G. Clonts, R.L. Jones, E.J. Kennedy, R.S. Smith, J. Boissevain, B.V. Jacak, D. Jaffe, J.S. Kapustinsky, J. Simon-Gillo, J.P. Sullivan, H. van Hecke.
  accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions of Nuclear Science.
  PHENIX-MVD-97-2, PHENIX Note #269
  

• MVD FEE Gain Studies
  Hubert van Hecke, John Sullivan, Jon Kapustinsky, Jan Boissevain
  PHENIX-MVD-97-3, PHENIX Note #270, submitted December 1996
  

• Rohacell Foam as a Silicon Support Structure Material for the PHENIX Multiplicity Vertex Detector
  E. Bosze, J. Simon-Gillo, J. Boissevain, J. Chang and R. Seto.
  NIM A 400(1997)224.
  PHENIX-MVD-97-4, PHENIX Note #271
  

• Rohacell Radiation Hardness Information
  Eric Bosze
  PHENIX-MVD-97-5, PHENIX Note #272, submitted February 1997
  

• Quality Control Procedure for Working with Rohacell
  Eric Bosze
  PHENIX-MVD-97-6, PHENIX Note #274, submitted February 1997
  

• MVD Access Lift Table
  Debbie Clark, Jan Boissevain, Jehanne Simon-Gillo
  PHENIX-MVD-97-7, PHENIX Note #281, submitted March 1997
  

• ESA-DE: Response of a Six-Silicon Cage to a 50% Change in Relative Humidity
  R. Christopher Potter
  PHENIX-MVD-97-8, PHENIX Note #282

• ESA-DE: Effect of Adding a Layer of Adhesive between Silicon and Rohacell Foam
  R. Christopher Potter
  PHENIX-MVD-97-9, PHENIX Note #283

• ESA-DE: Electronics Cooling for PHENIX MVD
  Z. Chen
  PHENIX-MVD-97-10, PHENIX Note #284

• ESA-DE: Electronics Cooling for PHENIX MVD Using Mixed Flow
  Z. Chen
  PHENIX-MVD-97-11, PHENIX Note #285, submitted October 1997

• The PHENIX multiplicity and vertex detector (MVD), A poster presentation by John Sullivan at the Third International Conference on Physics and Astrophysics of Quark Gluon Plasma in Jaipur, India, 17-21 March 1997
  John Sullivan
  PHENIX-MVD-97-12, PHENIX Note #292, submitted April 1997

• A Flexible Analog Memory Address List Manager for PHENIX,
  IEEE Transactions in Nuclear Science, 43(1996)1629.
  M.N. Ericson, M. S. Musrock, C. L. Britton Jr., J. W. Walker, A. L. Wintenberg, G. R. Young and M. D. Allen
  PHENIX-MVD-97-13, PHENIX Note #293
  The information in this publication has been updated- please see PHENIX Note #294 for more current information.
  

• Development of Front End Controller/HEAP Manager for PHENIX,
  Accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions in Nuclear Science, June 1997
  M. N. Ericson, M. D. Allen, M. S. Musrock, J. W. Walker, C. L. Britton, Jr., A. L. Wintenberg and G. R. Young
  PHENIX-MVD-97-14, PHENIX Note #294

• Assembly of the MVD Endplate
  Eric Bosze, Debbie Clark
  PHENIX-MVD-97-15, PHENIX Note #295, submitted June 1997

• Specifications for Paratronix Inc. for Parylening MVD Rohacell Components
  Eric Bosze, Jan Boissevain, Jehanne Simon-Gillo
  PHENIX-MVD-97-16, PHENIX Note #296

• The PHENIX Multiplicity Vertex Detector
  Jehanne Simon-Gillo, PHENIX Collaboration Meeting, Santa Fe, NM, July 26, 1996
  PHENIX-MVD-97-17, PHENIX Note #299, submitted June 1997

• A Double-Metal Silicon Pad Design for the PHENIX Multiplicity/Vertex Detector.
  Poster presentation at the Frontier Detectors for Frontier Physics Conference. May 25-31, 1997, La Biodla, Isola d'Elbar, Italy. Proceedings to be published in NIMA.
  J.S. Kapustinsky, J. Boissevain, E. Bosze, D. Clark, D. Jaffe, S.Y. Kim, L. Marek, J. Simon-Gillo, J. Sullivan, H. van Hecke, G. Xu
  PHENIX-MVD-97-18, PHENIX Note #301

• Low Interstrip Resistance in the First Production Batch from Micron Semiconductor
  Jon Kapustinsky
  PHENIX-MVD-97-19, PHENIX Note #302, submitted July 1997

• Silicon Detector Development for the Multiplicity Vertex Detector for the PHENIX Experiment at RHIC.
  Jon Kapustinsky
  PHENIX-MVD-97-20, PHENIX Note #303, submitted July 1997

• An Experimental Investigation of an Air Cooling Scheme for the Multichip Modules of the Multiplicity and Vertex Detector
  J.D. Bernardin, E. Bosze, D. Clark, J. Boissevain, and J. Simon-Gillo
  PHENIX-MVD-97-21, PHENIX Note #304

• An Experimental Investigation of Airflow-Induced Vibrations within the Multiplicity and Vertex Detector
  J.D. Bernardin, E. Bosze, J. Boissevain, and J. Simon-Gillo
  PHENIX-MVD-97-22, PHENIX Note #305

• Multiplicity Vertex Detector Silicon and Electronics Components
  Jehanne Simon-Gillo
  PHENIX-MVD-97-23, PHENIX Note #306, submitted July 1997. Warning-this is a changing document.

• MVD Mechanical Tolerance Studies
  Hubert van Hecke
  PHENIX-MVD-97-24, PHENIX Note #307, submitted July 1997

• The Multiplicity-Vertex Detector (MVD) of PHENIX at RHIC. A poster presentation at NN '97, 6th International Conference on nucleon nucleon collisions, June 2-6, 1997, Gatlinburg, TN.
  James Chang
  PHENIX-MVD-97-25, PHENIX Note #308, submitted July 1997

• The MVD Detector in PISA
  John Sullivan
  PHENIX-MVD-97-26, PHENIX Note #309, submitted July 1997

• MVD Signals
  Jan Boissevain
  PHENIX-MVD-97-27, PHENIX Note #310, submitted July 1997

• A Multiplicity-Vertex Detector for the PHENIX Experiment at RHIC
  4th International Conference on Position-Sensitive Detectors, September 9-13, 1996, Manchester, UK. NIMA 392(1997)192.
  J. Kapustinsky, J. Boissevain, E. Bosze, C. Britton, J. Chang, D. Clark, M Emery, N. Ericson, S. Y. Fung, B. Jacak, L. Marek, R. Seto, J. Simon-Gillo, M. Simpson, R. Smith, J. Sullivan, Y. Takahashi, H. van Hecke, J. Walker, N. Xu
  PHENIX-MVD-97-29, PHENIX Note #312

• The MVD Final Mechanical Design Review
  Brookhaven National Laboratory, July 28,1997
  Jehanne Simon-Gillo, Jan Boissevain, Hubert van Hecke, Jon Kapustinsky, John Bernardin, John Sullivan
  PHENIX-MVD-97-30, PHENIX Note #313

• (Front and) "Back of the Envelope" Calculation of e^+/- background Dalitz decays and pair production
  Originally written in October 1994
  John Sullivan
  PHENIX-MVD-97-31, PHENIX Note #314, submitted August 1997

• Testing of the MCM Air-Cooling Central Plenum Piece
  Eric Bosze
  PHENIX-MVD-97-34, PHENIX Note #317

• The Multiplicity Vetex Detector (MVD) Database
  Eric Bosze
  PHENIX-MVD-97-35, PHENIX Note #318

• Effects of Long Term Cycling on the C-cages
  Eric Bosze
  PHENIX-MVD-97-36, PHENIX Note #319

• Araldite Epoxy-Silicon Detector Compatibility Experiments
  David Jaffe
  PHENIX-MVD-97-37, PHENIX Note #322

• MVD test stand at LANL
  Sangyeol Kim and Hubert van Hecke
  PHENIX-MVD-97-38, PHENIX Note #323

• Tgv32ch Pad Definitions (rev. E)
  Tgv32bh Pad Definitions (rev. D) C.L. Britton Jr
  PHENIX-MVD-97-39, PHENIX Note #324

• Assessment of Personal Safety in PHENIX/MVD
  J. Simon-Gillo
  PHENIX-MVD-97-40.

• Tests of MVD Prototype Pad Detectors with a Beta Source
  Sang Yeol Kim, Sang Su Ryu, Young Gook Kim, John Sullivan.
  PHENIX-MVD-97-41, PHENIX Note #327

• An Experimental Investigation of an Air Cooling Scheme for Removing Environmentally Imposed Heat Loads form the Multiplicity and Vertex Detector's Main Enclosure
  R. Cunningham, J.D. Bernardin, J. Simon-Gillo
  PHENIX-MVD-97-42, PHENIX Note #328

• An Experimental Investigation of a Liquid Cooling Scheme for the Low Dropout Voltage Regulators of the Multiplicity and Vertex Detector
  J.D. Bernardin, E. Bosze
  PHENIX-MVD-97-43, PHENIX Note #329

• Design of the Cooling Systems for the Multiplicity and Vertex Detector
  J. D. Bernardin and R. Cunningham
  PHENIX-MVD-97-44, PHENIX Note #330

• Front-End Module Readout and Control Electronics for the PHENIX Multiplicity Vertex Detector,
  Accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions in Nuclear Science
  M. N. Ericson, M. D. Allen, J. Boissevain, C. L. Britton, Jr., M.S. Emery, S.F. Hahn, J.S. Kapustinsky, R.E. Lind, M.S. Musrock, J. Simon-Gillo, D.E. Smith, J.P. Sullivan,H. Van Hecke, G. R. Young
  PHENIX-MVD-97-45, PHENIX Note #331

• A Configuarable CMOS Voltage DAC for Multichannel Detector Systems,
  Accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions in Nuclear Science
  M. N. Ericson, S.S. Frank, C. L. Britton, Jr., M.S. Emery, J.S. Sam, A.L. Wintenberg
  PHENIX-MVD-97-46, PHENIX Note #332

• Timing and Control Requirements for a 32-Channel AMU-ADC ASIC for the PHENIX Detector (pdf version)
  (html version)
  Accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions in Nuclear Science
  M.S. Emery, M. N. Ericson, C. L. Britton, Jr., M.C. Smith, S.S. Frank, G.R. Young, M. D. Allen, L.G. Clonts
  PHENIX-MVD-97-47, PHENIX Note #333