Interface board for the first prototype of the AMIGA muon detector.

M. VIDELA ; M. PLATINO; B. GARCÍA; F. SUAREZ; O. WAINBERG; D. YELOS; A. ALMELA; G. DE LA VEGA; A. LUCERO; J. MAYA; F. SANCHEZ

Rio de Janeiro

Conferencia; The 33rd International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2013); 2013

International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP)

The AMIGA project is an enhancement of the Pierre Auger Observatory. The engineering array consists in an hexagon of seven scintillator counters in each of the vertices and center, buried close to each station of an infill of Auger Surface Detectors. The counters are devided in 10 m2 modules segmented in 64 scintillator strips and coupled to a multi-anode PMT. The electronic system of a single module acquires and processes the signals of the PMT, and it transfers the data to the surface. An electronics interface board was designed to extract the data from the counter and to provide a remote control of the system. In this work, we present its design and perfomance during the AMIGA first acquisition period in 2012.