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Mr Alberto Valero Biot (Instituto de Fisica Corpuscular (IFIC) UV-CSIC)06/09/2007, 16:45PosterTileCal is the hadronic tile calorimeter of the ATLAS experiment at LHC/CERN. The Read-Out Driver (ROD) is the main component of the TileCal back-end electronics. The ROD is a VME 64x 9u board with multiple programmable devices which requires a complete set of firmware. This paper describes the firmware and functionalities of all these programmable devices, especially the DSP...Go to contribution page
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Dr David Cussans (H.H. Wills Physics Laboratory)06/09/2007, 16:45PosterILC not a triggered experiment, but during detector development it may be useful to operate in a triggered mode. A Trigger/Tagging Logic Unit (TLU) is described which allows triggered operation, with option of smooth transition to triggerless, data-driven mode. The TLU is being developed as part of the EUDET programme to develop test-beam infrastructure for ILC detector development.Go to contribution page
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Mr Ricardo Marco (IFIC-Instituto de Física Corpuscular, Universidad de Valenca-CSIC, Valencia, Spain)06/09/2007, 16:45PosterA portable readout system for micro-strip silicon sensors has been developed. The system uses an analogue pipelined readout chip, which was developed for the LHC experiments. The system will be used to characterise the properties of both non-irradiated and irradiated micro-strip sensors. Heavily irradiated sensors will be operated at the Super LHC. The system hardware has two main...Go to contribution page
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Jan Blaha (Institut de Physique Nucleaire de Lyon (IPNL))06/09/2007, 16:45PosterThe Very-Front-End electronics processing signal from photodetectors of the CMS electromagnetic calorimeter, have been put through extensive test program to guarantee functionality and reliability. The final characteristics of the VFE boards designed for the calorimeter barrel and endcaps are resented. The results, which have been also verified during test beam at CERN, confirm the high...Go to contribution page
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Dr Costa Filippo (Department of Physics, University of Bologna, and I.N.F.N Bologna)06/09/2007, 16:45PosterThe data concentrator card CARLOSrx is a readout board developed for the ALICE ITS Silicon Drift Detector (SDD) experiment held at CERN. CARLOSrx is a 9Ux400 mm VME board, containing 4 FPGAs with the purpose of processing data coming from 12 SDD detectors and sending them to a computer running the DATE software. Twentyfour boards are installed for SDD. We have implemented and tested a new...Go to contribution page
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06/09/2007, 16:45PosterThe paper describes a novel approach to detect particles by means of an integrated device susceptible to latchup effects; it is proposed as a powerful means of achieving the precise detection and positioning of a broad range of particles with a micrometer spatial resolution. The cell is designed using state-of-the-art AMS 0.35 micron BiCOMS technology. We show the design of a mixed-mode...Go to contribution page
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Dr Alessandro Gabrielli (INFN & Physic Department of Bologna University Viale Berti Pichat 6/2 40127 Bologna Italy)06/09/2007, 16:45PosterThe device described in the paper is built up of a bidimensional matrix of MAPS, already designed and fabricated in the past by the SLIM5 Collaboration, and of an off-pixel digital readout sparsification. The readout logic is based on std-cells and implements an optimised token-like technique. It is aimed at overcoming the readout speed limit of future large-matrix pixel detectors for...Go to contribution page
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Fukun Tang (Enrico Fermi Institute - University of Chicago)06/09/2007, 16:45PosterWe have proposed using 2" by 2" micro-channel plates (MCP-PMTs) with a novel equal-time anode and with capacitive return path coupling to measure the time-of-flight of relativistic particles, with the goal of being able to construct large-area TOF detectors with a resolution of 1 psec. The proposed front-end customer chip is a time stretcher with 1ps resolution, building with IBM...Go to contribution page
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Mr FREDERIC DULUCQ (Laboratoire de l Accélérateur Linéaire)06/09/2007, 16:45PosterSPIROC (SiPM Integrated Read Out Chip) is the Very Front End ASIC that reads ILC hadronic calorimeter SiPM. It integrates a very complex digital part which performs many functions and manages Acquisition, A/D Conversion and data Read-out. The Acquisition module manages Switched Capacitor Array in which charge and time are stored. This is done by an asynchronous module to meet time...Go to contribution page
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Mr Mikhail Matveev (Rice University)06/09/2007, 16:45PosterThis paper presents the implementation of the Timing, Trigger and Control (TTC) signal distribution tree in the Cathode Strip Chamber (CSC) sub-detector of the CMS Experiment at CERN. The key electronic component, the Clock and Control Board (CCB) is described in detail, as well as the transmission of TTC signals from the top of the CSC system down to the front-end boards.Go to contribution page
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Dr Rafael Nobrega (INFN Sez. Roma)06/09/2007, 16:45PosterThe LHCb Muon Detector System will be equipped with about 1400 high efficiency chambers (Multi-Wire Proportional Chambers and Triple-GEM detectors) which will host a total of 7500 front-end boards, each receiving 16 readout channels and having 93 registers for access. A distributed PC network runs the supervision program and allows download of start-up settings and procedures, and upload of...Go to contribution page
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Takashi Kubota (ICEPP, University of the Tokyo)06/09/2007, 16:45PosterFor the detector commissioning planned in 2007, a sector assembly of the ATLAS muon-endcap chamber and final test at the surface for the assembled electronics are progressed in CERN intensively. For the test, we built up the DAQ system using test pulse of two types and cosmic ray pulse. So far, 60% of all 320,000 channels have been already tested and most of them were installed into the...Go to contribution page
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Wieslaw Iwanski (CERN, CH-1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland, INP PAN, Cracow, Poland)06/09/2007, 16:45PosterReadout of the front-end electronics of the Absolute Luminosity Monitor is controlled by programmable devices. AlfaR is a local readout controller which reads digitized data with LHC clock and keeps them until validation of the first level trigger. Once validated, data are moved via serial bus to further part of the readout chain supervised by AlfaM chip. This global readout controller...Go to contribution page
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Dr Jan Troska (CERN)06/09/2007, 16:45PosterThe Timing, Trigger and Control (TTC) distribution system must ensure high-quality clocking of the CMS experiment to allow the physics potential of the LHC machine to be fully exploited. This key system provides the synchronization tools – bunch clock, first level Triggers and fast commands – that enable all sub-detector systems to take data for the same LHC collision. The challenges of...Go to contribution page
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Mr Enrico Pozzati (Università di Pavia)06/09/2007, 16:45PosterIn this work deep N-well CMOS monolithic active pixel sensors (DNW-MAPS) are presented as an alternative approach to signal processing in high energy physics experiments. Based on different resolution constraints, some prototype MAPS, suitable for applications requiring different detector pitch, have been developed and fabricated in 90 nm and 130 nm triple well CMOS technologies....Go to contribution page
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Andrei Dorokhov (IPHC)06/09/2007, 16:45PosterHigh precision particle tracking and imaging applications require position sensitive detectors with high granularity, good radiation tolerance, low material budget, fast read-out and low power dissipation. Monolithic Active Pixel Sensors (MAPS) fabricated in a standard microelectronic technology provide an attractive solution for these demanding applications. The signal-to-noise...Go to contribution page
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Dr Alessandro Gabrielli (INFN Sezione di Bologna and Bologna University- Physics Department)06/09/2007, 16:45PosterThe up-to-date pixel detectors applied to HEP in LHC experiments implement 2D matrixes of sensitive elements that are basically readout via token-based techniques, according to external trigger signals. As the readout time is one of the drawbacks of large matrix devices, because it implies long detector dead times, here it is described a novel readout architecture of pixel devices, which...Go to contribution page
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Dr Filippo Maria Giorgi (INFN Bologna & Università degli studi di Bologna)06/09/2007, 16:45PosterDevelopment, realization and test of an electronic data acquisition-board for the NEMO (NEutrino Mediterranean Observatory) collaboration are described in this work. The collaboration is involved in R&D for the construction of a deep underwater km^3 scale Cherenkov neutrino telescope in the Mediterranean sea. Thousands of optical modules are equipped with a photo multiplier tube and an...Go to contribution page
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Mr Petr Masek (FEE CVUT Prague, Czech Republic)06/09/2007, 16:45PosterA novel read-out (R/O) device based on universal series bus (USB1.0) for spectroscopy data acquisition (DAQ) together with software controlling analog-to-digital converters (type of Canberra, model 8715) will be presented. The interface exploiting the USB1.0 standard has two advantages: USB1.0 is spread out on all platforms and almost computers are equipped with this communication port; and,...Go to contribution page
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Dr Géza Székely (MTA Atomki, Hungary)06/09/2007, 16:45PosterIn the last year – as part of the CMS test called Magnet Test and Cosmic Challenge (MTCC) - about 25% of the full CMS Barrel Muon Alignment System was built and operated. The configuration enabled us to test all the elements of the system and its function under real conditions. In the paper the setup –including the read-out and control- is described and the first preliminary results are...Go to contribution page
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Mr Julien Fleury (LAL - Orsay)06/09/2007, 16:45PosterThis abstract describes the new front end ASIC designed for the silicon tungsten electromagnetic calorimeter called SKIROC. This new chip embeds the main features required for the ILC final detector.Go to contribution page
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Mr Dominik Fehlker (University of Bergen)06/09/2007, 16:45PosterThe Time Projection Chamber (TPC) is one of the sub-detectors of the ALICE detector that is currently being commissioned as a part of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. The Detector Control System (DCS) is used for control and monitoring of the system. For the TPC Front End Electronics (FEE) the control node is a Readout Control Unit (RCU) that communicates to higher layers via...Go to contribution page
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Mr Ludovic Raux (LAL Orsay)06/09/2007, 16:45PosterSPIROC is a dedicated very front-end electronics for an ILC prototype hadronic calorimeter with SiPM readout. It has been realized in 0.35m SiGe technology. It has been developed to match the requirements of large dynamic range, low noise, low consumption, high precision and large number of readout channels needed. SPIROC is an auto-triggered, bi-gain, 36-channel ASIC which allows...Go to contribution page
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Dr Jose Torres Pais (Universidad de Valencia)06/09/2007, 16:45PosterThe Optical Multiplexer Board is one of the elements present in the Read Out chain of the Tile Calorimeter in ATLAS experiment. Due to radiation effects, two optical fibers with the same data are sent from the Front End Boards to this board, which has to decide in real time which one carries good data and pass them to Read Out Driver motherboard for processing. The paper describes the...Go to contribution page
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Nathan Triplett06/09/2007, 16:45PosterThe ATLAS Pixel Detector is an 80 M channels silicon tracking system designed to detect charged tracks and secondary vertices with very high precision. To verify that the integrated assembly will perform as expected subsequent to installation into the experimental area, a fraction (10%) of the detector and the requisite ancillary services has been assembled and operated in a...Go to contribution page
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Mr Stefan Haas (CERN)06/09/2007, 16:45PosterThe Muon to Central Trigger Processor Interface (MUCTPI) is part of the ATLAS Level-1 trigger system and connects the output of muon trigger system to the Central Trigger Processor (CTP). At every bunch crossing, the MUCTPI receives information on muon candidates from each of the 208 muon trigger sectors and calculates the total multiplicity for each of six pT thresholds. This multiplicity...Go to contribution page
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Manfred Pernicka (HEPHY Vienna)06/09/2007, 16:45PosterThe innermost detector of the CMS Experiment consists of 60 million silicon pixels. The hit data has to be read out and must be digitized, synchronized, formatted and transferred over the S-Link to the final CMS DAQ. The amount of data can only be handled because the readout chip (ROC) delivers zero-suppressed data above an adjustable threshold for every pixel. The Pixel FED 9U VME module...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Giuliano Parrini (Dipartimento di Fisica)06/09/2007, 16:45PosterThe cluster width of a particle crossing a silicon strip (mini strip) detector can be exploited to measure its transverse momentum when the strips are parallel to the B field. This suggests the discrimination of the clusters widths to filter the majority of low momentum particles. Once performed directly on the detectors, such discrimination can be used both for low level trigger (L-1,L-2)...Go to contribution page
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