A 0.3nV/root Hz input-referred-noise analog front-end for radiation-induced thermo-acoustic pulses
This paper presents the design and the experimental characterization of a complete acoustic analog front-end (A-AFE) read-out channel for detecting thermo-acoustic pulses induced by heavy-charged particles interacting with matter. The most relevant applications are in particle physics experiments (bubble chambers for Dark Matter Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) detection) and biomedical (beam range verification in oncological hadron-therapy).