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A waveform and time digitization mainboard prototype for the hybrid digital optical module of TRIDENT neutrino experiment

Guangping Zhang·Yong Yang·Donglian Xu
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The TRIDENT (Tropical Deep-sea Neutrino Telescope) experiment is a next-generation underwater neutrino observatory planned for deployment in the West Pacific Ocean, designed to detect astrophysical neutrinos through Cherenkov radiation. The full-scale detector will consist of approximately 1000 vertical strings, each equipped with 20 hybrid digital optical modules (hDOMs) containing both photomultiplier tubes (PMTs) and silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) for comprehensive light detection. This paper presents a custom-designed digitization mainboard prototype for the hDOM, featuring simultaneous 32-channel PMT waveform digitization at 125 MS/s using commercial analog-to-digital converters and 56-channel high-precision time measurement through field-programmable gate array -implemented time-to-digital converters. The system demonstrates excellent performance in single photoelectron (PE) detection with clear pedestal separation, maintains linear response up to 240 PEs, and achieves sub-nanosecond timing resolution for PMT or SiPM pulse edges.

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Guangping Zhang, Yong Yang, Donglian Xu. 2025-11-19. A waveform and time digitization mainboard prototype for the hybrid digital optical module of TRIDENT neutrino experiment. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41605-025-00619-4

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