An innovative Cylindrical Gas Electron Multiplier (CGEM) detector is under construction for the upgrade of the inner tracker of the BESIII experiment. A novel system has been worked out for the readout, including a new ASIC, dubbed TIGER, designed for the amplification and digitization of the CGEM output signals. The data output by TIGER are collected and processed by a first FPGA-based...
We present the development of an Intelligent Platform Management Controller mezzanine in a Mini DIMM form factor for use in electronic boards compliant to the Advanced Telecommunication Computing Architecture standard. The module is based on an STMicroelectronics STM32H745 microcontroller running the OpenIPMC open-source software, and its design has been published under open-source hardware...
The data acquisition system is a vital component in the high-energy physics experiment. To reduce duplication of work during development, D-Matrix, a generic platform, has been developed as a unified software/hardware streaming DAQ system and will be used in CSR External-target Experiments in HIRFL-CSR. Its philosophy is to abstract different tasks in the stream processing and encapsulate them...
We describe a modular data acquisition system developed as the foundation of a cosmic ray detector network. Each detector setup is composed of an independent hardware device that can be controlled and read out through the Internet. This device is designed to acquire and process the signal of up to eight different detector planes. Each of these detector planes uses plastic scintillator slabs...
The TORCH detector provides low-momentum particle identification, combining Time of Flight (TOF) and Cherenkov techniques to achieve charged particle pi/K/p separation between 2-20 GeV/c over a flight distance of 10m. The measurement requires a timing resolution of 70ps for single Cherenkov photons. For precision photon detection, customised Micro-Channel Plate Photomultiplier Tubes (MCP-PMTs)...
Liquid argon (LAr) sampling calorimeters are employed by ATLAS for all electromagnetic calorimetry in the pseudo-rapidity region |η| < 3.2, and for hadronic and forward calorimetry in the region from |η| = 1.5 to |η| = 4.9. Phase-I detector upgrades began after the end of ATLAS Run-2. New trigger readout electronics of the LAr Calorimeter have been developed. Installation began at the start...
To tolerate the High Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) data taking conditions on the detector electronics of the CMS Drift Tubes (DT) chambers need to be replaced during Long Shutdown 3. The first prototype of the HL-LHC electronics for the On detector Board for the DT chambers (OBDT) have been installed in CMS connected to the DT chambers of one out of sixty sectors and integrated in the central data...
We present the status of the DAMIC-M (Dark Matter In CCD at Modane) electronics and acquisition system. This first version controls a skipper CCD and measure the pixel charge with a single electron resolution. It was designed to allow optimization with respect to clocking and readout parameters to achieve the best tradeoff between noise and readout speed. We present the implementation of the...
A novel DCS front-end interface for slow control, composed of two devices, the Embedded Monitoring and Control Interface (EMCI) and the Embedded Monitoring Processor (EMP), is presented. The EMCI, based on the lpGBT and the VTRx+, is placed in a radiation hard environment and is connected to multiple front-ends via eLinks. Up to 12 different EMCIs can transmit data via optical fibre to a...
The High Granularity Timing Detector for the ATLAS upgrade is under construction to meet the challenges of the HL-LHC. The silicon detectors along with the electronics are installed in two double-sided disks per end-cap and consist of basic units (called modules) connected to the peripheral electronics by Flexible Printed Circuit cables. The reduced space between disks and the positioning...
In the scope of the Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) project, 6 back-end card (BEC) mezzanines connected to one BEC base board are in charge of compensating the attenuated incoming data from 48 front-end channels over 48 100-meters-long ethernet cables. Each of the mezzanines has 16 equalizers that may be subject to overheating. It is important to monitor their temperature in...
Low-Gain Avalanche Detectors (LGADs) are thin silicon detectors with moderate internal signal amplification yielding excellent time resolution of close to 10’s ps. AC-LGADs (aka Resistive Silicon Detectors RSD) have un-segmented gain layer and N-layer, and a di-electric layer separating the metal readout pads, guaranteeing a 100% fill-factor. The high spatial precision of few 10‘s µm is...
With the projected five-fold increase in instantaneous luminosity resulting from the High Luminosity upgrade of the Large Hadron Collider, the CMS experiment is in the process of upgrading its muon spectrometer. Two triple-GEM detector systems—the GE2/1, which is currently in the early mass-production phase, and the ME0, currently in the prototyping phase—are undergoing frontend electronics...
The RCE (Reconfigurable Cluster Element) platform is a general-purpose system-on-chip data acquisition system, which is broadly deployed in various experiments, including ATLAS. A new generation of bench-top RCE system, based on Xilinx UltraScale+ MPSoC, is developed to support the Rd53a/b module and system testing with high performance. The RCE system also serves as the primary platform for...
The Pixel Luminosity Telescope (PLT) is a silicon pixel detector dedicated to luminosity measurement at the CMS experiment. It is arranged into 16 "telescopes" of three planes each, with eight telescopes arranged around the beam pipe at either end of the CMS detector, outside the pixel endcap. In the talk, the commissioning, calibration, operational history, and performance of the detector...
Based on Timepix3 several detector types can be built by combining it with a sensor or a photolithographically postprocessed gas amplification stage. With these combinations applications like beam telescopes and gas-based X-ray detectors can be realized.
The detectors can range from single- to multichip and from low- to high-rate applications, thus a modular and scalable system is needed. It...
The CMS BRIL project upgrades its instrumentation for the Phase-2 detector to provide high-precision luminosity and beam-induced background measurements. A part of the CMS Inner Tracker - the Tracker Endcap Pixel Detector (TEPX) - will allocate a fraction of the read-out bandwidth for luminometry. In the talk, the advantages and implications of the proposed approach are highlighted. A...
Caribou is a flexible open-source DAQ system designed for laboratory and high-
rate beam tests and easy integration of new silicon-pixel detector prototypes. It
uses common hardware, firmware and software components that can be shared
across different projects, thereby reducing the development effort and cost for
such readout systems significantly.
The ALICE detector is undergoing an upgrade for Run 3 at the LHC. A new Inner Tracking System is part of this upgrade. The upgraded ALICE ITS features the ALPIDE, a Monolithic Active Pixel Sensor. Due to IC fabrication variations and radiation damages, the threshold values for the ALPIDE chips in ITS need to be measured and adjusted periodically to ensure the quality of data-taking. The...
In the Phase-2 CMS upgrade, a luminosity uncertainty of 1% is targeted. To achieve this goal, measurements from multiple luminometers with orthogonal systematics are required. A standalone luminometer, the Fast Beam Condition Monitor (FBCM) is being designed for online bunch-by-bunch luminosity measurement. Its fast timing properties also enable the measurement of beam induced background. In...
The FOOT (FragmentatiOn Of Target) multi-detector experiment aims at improving the accuracy of oncological hadrontherapy for tumor treatment. It studies the nuclear fragmentation due to the interactions of charged particle beams with patient tissues. Among the several FOOT detectors, the silicon Microstrip Detector is part of the charged-ions-tracking magnetic spectrometer. Here we describe...
This paper describes design and performance of the new Digitizer ReAdout Controller of the Mu2e electromagnetic calorimeter, which consists of two 674 CsI crystal annular matrices readout by SiPMs. The 20-channel board performs a 200 MHz sampling of the SiPM signals transmitted by the front-end electronics. The operation in the Mu2e harsh environment, with an expected total ionizing dose of...
In order to meet the requirements for the High Luminosity-Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC), a completely new architecture will be used to redesign the readout electronics of the ATLAS Tile Calorimeter (TileCal) system for the ATLAS Phase-II Upgrade. In the new Trigger and Data AcQuisition (TDAQ) architecture, the output signals of the Tile detector cells will be digitized in the front-end...
In the context of the CMS Phase-2 tracker back-end processing system, two mezzanines based on the Zynq Ultrascale+ Multi-Processor System-on-Chip (MPSoC) device have been developed to serve as centralized slow control and board management solution for the Serenity-family ATCA blades.
In this talk, we present the current revision of both Serenity baseboards and the developments on the MPSoC...
