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Timing Performance of the CMS High Granularity Calorimeter Prototype

This paper describes the experience with the calibration,reconstruction and evaluation of the timing capabilities of the CMSHGCAL prototype in the beam tests in 2018. The calibrationprocedure includes multiple steps and corrections ranging from tensof nanoseconds to a few hundred picoseconds. The timing performanceis studied using signals from positron beam particles with energiesbetween 20 GeV and 300 GeV. The performance is studied as afunction of particle energy against an external timing reference aswell as standalone by comparing the two different halves of theprototype. The timing resolution is found to be 60 ps forsingle-channel measurements and better than 20 ps for full showersat the highest energies, setting excellent perspectives for theHGCAL calorimeter performance at the HL-LHC.

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A high-resolution clock phase shifter circuitry for ALTIROC

Abstract A high-resolution clock phase shifter is implemented to adjust the phase of multiple clocks at 40 MHz, 80 MHz, or 640 MHz in the ALTIROC chip. The phase shifter has a coarse-phase shifter and a fine-phase shifter to achieve a step size of 97.7 ps and an adjustable range of 25 ns. The fine delay unit is based on a Delay Locked Loop (DLL) operating at 640 MHz. The phase shifter is fabricated in a 130 nm CMOS process. The area of the phase shifter is 725 µm × 248 µm. The Differential Non-Linearity (DNL) and the Integral Non-Linearity (INL) are ±0.6 LSB and ±0.75 LSB, respectively. The jitter from −25 °C to 20 °C is less than 15.5 ps (RMS), including the contributions from the FPGA clock source and the PLL. The power consumption is 11.2 mW.

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