Low noise front-end electronics for microstrip position sensors and vertex detectors for experiments at TeV energies

A low noise front-end system suitable for signal acquisition from a microstrip detector has been developed. The system is specifically intended for experiments with beams of high intensity and it is able to operate with noise weighting functions as short as 200 ns and detector capacitances up to 50 pF, yet preserving outstanding noise performances. As a first application, the front-end system described here is going to be employed in the vertex detector of the E687 experiment, due to be performed at the Fermilab Tevatron.