>Any photomultiplier tubes in the application? Am working
>on a scintillation detector using a 1.5Gsps ADC and a
>Virtex-4 FPGA and would love to trade war stories..
>this thing is keeping me up at nights..

No, this is using CCD detectors to measure the scintillation of minerals
caused by x-rays from the sun. It is a slightly updated version of the DCIXS
instrument currently orbiting the moon on Smart-1.

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