Design and Commissioning of Readout Electronics for a $K_L^0$ and $μ$ Detector at the Belle II Experiment
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/ Authors
C. Ketter, M. Andrew, T. Aushev, N. K. Baghel, Sw. Banerjee, E. Becker, M. Beretta, E. Bernieri, D. Biswas, D. Bodrov
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P. Branchini, A. Budano, C. Chen, Y. T. Chen, K. Chilikin, S. Choudhury, J. Cochran, G. De Pietro, R. de Sangro, G. Finocchiaro, V. Gaur, E. Graziani, Y. Guan, W. W. Jacobs, S. Kang, T. D. Kimmel, H. Kindo, B. Kirby, B. Kunkler, T. Lam, D. Liventsev, C. Martellini, A. Martini, F. Meier
/ Abstract
The K-long and muon detector (KLM) constitutes the outer-most volume of the Belle II spectrometer at the interaction region of the SuperKEKB collider in Tsukuba, Japan. The KLM detector was partially upgraded since the Belle experiment by replacing many of its resistive-plate chambers with scintillators containing wavelength-shifting fibers and instrumenting it with silicon photomultipliers. We describe the readout electronics, firmware, and software created to control and acquire data from the scintillators and resistive-plate chambers.