Preliminary Study of Pulsed Powering

The standard solution for powering the electronics of particle physics detectors is to supply direct current. In this report, we investigate several advantages of using a Pulsed Powering scheme. Pulsed Powering could achieve 2-wire, point-of-load voltage regulation over typical low voltage power cables. This could be a reliable and serviceable solution for point of load voltage regulation in the high radiation environment of the High Luminosity Large Hadron Collider. Pulsed Powering might also be exploited to provide an inexpensive solution for the elimination of voltage offsets among ATLAS Pixel Detector subsystems and new low mass techniques for distributing power to particle detectors