Dr
Walter Snoeys
(CERN)
07/09/2007, 11:00
Oral
TOTEM is an LHC experiment around the same interaction point as CMS. It contains cathode strip chambers (CSC) and gas electron multiplier detectors (GEM) in the CMS cavern and 24 Roman Pots with silicon strip detectors in the LHC tunnel. TOTEM should run both standalone and together with CMS, and should be fully compatible with CMS. All three sub-detectors provide level one trigger building...
Mr
Gueorgui Antchev
(CERN PH-TOT / INRNE-BAS)
07/09/2007, 11:25
Oral
The TOTEM Front End Driver or TOTFED receives and handles trigger building and tracking data from the TOTEM detectors, and interfaces to the global trigger and data acquisition systems. The TOTFED is based on the VME64x standard and has deliberately been kept modular, very flexible and programmable to deal with the different TOTEM sub-detectors and possible evolution of the data treatment and...
