The DAMA Laboratory is located in the ground floor of the INPP Tandem building and occupies an area of about 60 m2. The main infrastructure is shown below:




THREE FULLY EQUIPPED TEST BENCHES FOR STUDYING MPGDs
- Gas distribution,
- Electronics Racks with NIM modules, HV modules, preamplifiers, amplifiers etc
- Oscilloscopes
- Workstations
- Radioactive sources
GAS MIXER and distribution of premixed gases
ELECTRONICS AND DAQ SYSTEMS
- VME Data Acquisition (CAEN controller, optical fiber connection
- CRAMS, sequencer, ADC unit, Gate generator, etc)
- SRS - Scalable Readout System (APV FE, 2000 channels readout)
- FEMINOS readout for TPC mode
- Electronics: Racks (1 VME and 4 NIM crates), NIM units
- (Multifunction NIM modules, Amplifiers, Discrim., HV, LV PS
- Pulse generators, NIM/ TTL/ NIM converter etc), MCAs (2), Preamps
DESIGN PACKAGES
- Electronics design packages
- Finite Element Analysis
- DAQ software (Labview, C++)
- FPGA (Altera, Xilinx) design workstations
- FPGA Design platforms
CLEAN ROOM
- (12 m2 – two rooms Class 10,000 and Class 100,000)
- Microscope
