Dr
Markus Friedl
(Institut fuer Hochenergiephysik (HEPHY)-Oesterreichische Akadem)
9/26/11, 2:15 PM
Oral
Jörg Schmiedmayer
(Vienna University of Technology)
9/26/11, 2:30 PM
Oral
Helmut Rauch
(Austrian Academy of Sciences)
9/26/11, 2:45 PM
Oral
Christian Fabjan
(ÖAW-HEPHY & University of Technology, Vienna)
9/26/11, 3:00 PM
Oral
Particle Physics in Austria is diversifying. The accelerator-based experimental efforts are presently being carried out at LHC (ATLAS and CMS) and Belle/ Belle II at KEK. Hadron physics, with emphasis on perturbative QCD studies are being pursued at several research facilities. Recently a major astrophysics and astroparticle physics programme has been launched at Innsbruck. Exciting new...
Manfred Jeitler
(Institut fuer Hochenergiephysik (HEPHY)-Oesterreichische Akadem)
9/26/11, 3:30 PM
There are a couple of institutes in Austria dealing with particle physics in various aspects, and most of them also have R&D programs for instrumentation. These institutes belong to universities or the Austrian Academy of Sciences, and the field of research ranges from astroparticle physics to nuclear physics. This presentation will give a brief overview of the institutes and their electronics...
Dr
Christoph Posch
(Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH)
9/26/11, 4:30 PM
Despite all the impressive progress made during the last decades in the fields of information technology, microelectronics and computer science, artificial sensory and information processing systems are still much less effective in dealing with real-world tasks than their biological counterparts. Even small insects still outperform the most powerful computers in routine functions involving...
Dr
Rainer Minixhofer
(Austriamicrosystems AG)
9/26/11, 5:15 PM
Oral
Austriamicrosystems as a globally acting, specialty semiconductor manufacturer with headquarters in Unterpremstätten, Austria, is a nucleation point for a lot of leading edge research in the semiconductor field. With its foundry services and “all-under-one-roof” offers, the company has a long history in providing open access to specialty analog semiconductor processes for the past 3 decades....
Dr
Peter Fischer
(Physikalisches Institut)
9/27/11, 9:00 AM
The FAIR facility, which is being constructed at GSI, Darmstadt,
Germany, will provide anti proton and ion beams with unprecedented intensity and quality. Several new or upgraded experiments will study the detailed structure of nuclei, nuclear matter, quark-gluon plasma, and much more. The very high track densities and the lack of fast triggers necessitates self triggered detector readout...
Giovanni Mazza
(INFN sez. di Torino, Italy)
9/27/11, 9:50 AM
The ToPiX ASIC is a custom development for the hybrid pixel sensors of the PANDA experiment Micro Vertex Detector.
The ASIC will provide both the time and amplitude informations (via the Time over Threshold technique) of the incoming particle. ToPiX will consist of a matrix of 116x110 cells with a pixel size of 100x100 um2, the column readout logic and two 311 Mbit/s serializers.
A reduced...
John Coughlan
(STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)
9/27/11, 9:50 AM
The Front End Module (FEM) is a custom on-detector FPGA based digital data acquisition card for the Large Pixel Detector (LPD) currently under construction for the European X-ray Free Electron Laser (XFEL) facility in Hamburg. In normal XFEL operation the LPD detector will generate 10 GBytes/sec of sparsified data for every one mega-pixel of sensor area. Data processed by the FEM is...
Mr
Pablo Fernandez Carmona
(CERN)
9/27/11, 10:15 AM
In order to achieve the required levels of luminosity in the CLIC linear collider, mechanical stabilization of quadrupoles to the nanometre level is required. The paper describes a design of hybrid electronics combining an analog controller and digital communication with the main machine controller. The choice of local analog control ensures the required low latency while still keeping...
Dr
Vladimir Zivkovic
(NIKHEF Institute)
9/27/11, 10:15 AM
The first samples of the FE-I4 engineering run (called FE-I4A) delivered promising results in terms of the merits imposed by the LHC pixel detectors. The FE-I4 team envisaged a number of modifications and fine-tuning before the actual exploitation, planned within Insertable B-Layer (IBL). As the IBL schedule was pushed significantly forward, a quick and efficient plan needed to be devised for...
Mark Raymond
(Imperial College London)
9/27/11, 11:00 AM
A 130 nm CMOS chip has been designed for silicon microstrip readout at the SLHC. The CBC has 128 channels, and utilises a binary un-sparsified architecture for chip and system simplicity. It is designed to read out signals of either polarity from short strips (capacitances up to ~ 10 pF) and can sink or source sensor leakage currents up to 1 microamp. Details of the design and measured...
Mr
Francis Anghinolfi
(CERN)
9/27/11, 11:00 AM
The ATLAS Forward Detectors for Measurement of Elastic Scattering and Luminosity (ALFA) have been fully installed during the 2010-2011 winter LHC shutdown. ALFA consists of 8 mini tracking detectors made of 20 planes of scintillating fibers placed in Roman Pot units near the beam and 240m away on both sides of the interaction point. The front-end electronics sit directly on top of the PMTs and...
Dr
Hubert Kroha
(Max-Planck-Institut fuer Physik, Munich)
9/27/11, 11:25 AM
We discuss the development and performance of a new analogue and digital readout chip for the Monitored Drift-Tube (MDT) chambers of the ATLAS muon spectrometer using the IBM 130 nm CMOS 8RF-DM technology. The 4-channel Amplifier-Shaper-Discriminator (ASD) chip was designed to match the analogue performance of the presently used device in 0.5 micron Agilent technology which is now obsolete....
Mr
Patrick Vogler
(ETH Zurich)
9/27/11, 11:25 AM
Within the FACT project, we construct a new type of camera based on Geiger-mode avalanche photodiodes (G-APDs). Compared to photomultipliers, G-APDs are more robust, need lower operation voltage and have the potential of higher efficiency and lower cost, but were never tested in the harsh environments of Cherenkov telescopes.
The FACT camera consists of 1440 G-APD pixels and readout channels,...
Dr
Matteo Beretta
(Istituto Nazionale Fisica Nucleare (INFN) - Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati)
9/27/11, 11:50 AM
We describe a VLSI processor for pattern recognition based on Content Addressable Memory (CAM) architecture, optimized for on-line track finding in high-energy physics experiments.
We have developed this device using 65 nm technology combining a full custom CAM cell with standard-cell control logic. The customized design maximizes the pattern density, minimizes the power consumption and...
Nicolas Dumont Dayot
(LAPP-Laboratoire d'Annecy-le-Vieux de Physique des Particules ()
9/27/11, 12:15 PM
In the context of the LHC upgrades, a new Read-Out Driver (ROD) board for the ATLAS LAr calorimeter is being developed. xTCA (Advanced/Micro Telecom Computing Architecture) is becoming a standard in high energy physics and is a serious candidate for future readout systems.
We will present our current developments to master ATCA and to integrate a large number of very high speed links (96...
Mr
Eduardo Picatoste Olloqui
(Universidad de Barcelona)
9/27/11, 12:15 PM
An integrated circuit for the Upgrade of the LHCb Calorimeter front end electronics is presented. The circuit is based on a two fully differential interleaved channel with a first amplifier stage and a switched integrator. It offers an electronically cooled input termination at the input to achieve the stringent noise requirements. Compared to previous designs, its novelty relies in the use of...
Veljko Radeka
(Brookhaven National Laboratory)
9/27/11, 2:00 PM
Systems
Oral
The Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (LAr TPC) technology offers extraordinarily precise event reconstruction and particle identification, as well as scalability to very-large detectors. To go beyond the sensitivities of current experiments for neutrino physics and proton decay, the next generation of liquid argon TPCs are envisioned to be in the range of 20-100 kton. Detectors of this...
Mr
Stefano Michelis
(CERN)
9/27/11, 2:50 PM
In view of the upgrade of the LHC experiments, we are developing custom DC/DC converters for a more efficient power distribution scheme.
Two new prototypes (AMIS3 and AMIS4) have been integrated in ASICs in the selected 0.35um commercial high voltage technology that has been successfully tested for all radiation effects: TID, displacement damage and Single Event Burnout.
While AMIS3...
Mr
Jakub Moron
(AGH University of Science and Technology)
9/27/11, 2:50 PM
The design and measurements results of low power Phase-Locked Loop (PLL) prototype for applications in particle physics detectors readout systems are presented. The PLL is designed and fabricated in 0.35~$\mu$m CMOS technology. First measurements show that the ASIC is fully functional and generates clock in the frequency range 380MHz-1.1GHz. The PLL power consumption at 1~GHz is about 4.5...
Ms
Nathalie SEGUIN-MOREAU
(OMEGA / IN2P3 - CNRS)
9/27/11, 3:15 PM
SKIROC (Silikon pin Kalorimeter Integrated ReadOut Chip) is the very front end chip designed for the readout of the Silicon PIN diodes foreseen for the Electromagnetic CALorimeter (ECAL) of the future International Linear Collider.
The very fine granularity of the ILC calorimeters implies a huge number of electronics channels (82 millions) which is a new feature of “imaging”...
Laura Gonella
(University of Bonn)
9/27/11, 3:15 PM
The Shunt-LDO regulator is a new regulator concept which combines a shunt and a Low Drop-Out (LDO) regulator. Designed to match the needs of serially powered detector systems, it can also be used as a pure LDO regulator for general application in powering schemes requiring linear regulation. The flexibility of the design makes the Shunt-LDO a good candidate for use in the powering schemes...
Mr
Peter Phillips
(Particle Physics)
9/27/11, 3:40 PM
The engineering challenges related to the supply of electrical power to future large scale detector systems are well documented. Two options remain under active study in our community, namely serial powering and the use of DC-DC convertors. Whilst clearly different in detail, both have the potential to increase the efficiency of the powering system.
The ATLAS Upgrade Strip Tracker...
Dr
David Gascon
(Universidad de Barcelona)
9/27/11, 3:40 PM
A wideband current mode preamplifier with 16 bits dynamic range (DR) is presented. It has been designed for the cameras of the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA). A novel current division scheme at the very front end part of circuit splits the input current in to two scaled currents which are connected to independent current mirrors. The mirror of the high gain path comprises a saturation control...
Bruno Soares Gonçalves
(Instituto de Plasmas e Fusão Nuclear)
9/27/11, 4:35 PM
Vladimir Zivkovic
(NIKHEF Institute)
9/27/11, 4:45 PM
Massimo Manghisoni
(Università degli Studi di Bergamo)
9/27/11, 5:00 PM
Eric Shearer Hazen
(Department of Physics-Boston University)
9/27/11, 5:15 PM
Gregory Michiel Iles
(Imperial College Sci., Tech. & Med. (GB))
9/27/11, 5:30 PM
Jean-Pierre Cachemiche
(Centre de Physique de Particules de Marseille (CPPM)-Faculte de),
Vincent Bobillier
(CERN)
9/27/11, 5:50 PM
Denis Fougeron
(Universite d'Aix - Marseille II (FR))
9/27/11, 5:55 PM
Filipe Pereira Alves De Sousa
(FEUP Faculdade de Engenharia (FEUP)-Universidade do Porto),
Francis Anghinolfi
(CERN)
9/27/11, 6:05 PM
Jano Gebelein
(Kirchhoff-Institut fuer Physik (KIP)-Ruprecht-Karls-Universitae)
9/27/11, 6:15 PM
Dr
Steve Trimberger
(Xilinx Research Labs)
9/28/11, 9:00 AM
For more than twenty-five years, programmable logic has effectively leveraged Moore’s law to provide steadily increasing device performance, capacity and features, while lowering the cost dramatically. We know that microprocessor power consumption issues forced a radical change in those devices, shifting from faster clock rate to multi-core. Is the same happening to programmable logic? ...
Dr
Carolina Gabaldon Ruiz
(CERN)
9/28/11, 9:50 AM
The ATLAS trigger system is responsible for reducing the event rate, from the design bunch-crossing rate of 40 MHz, to an average recording rate of 200 Hz, by selecting signal-like events out of the extremely large background. The ATLAS trigger is designed in three levels. The first-level (L1) is implemented in custom-built electronics, the two levels of the high level trigger (HLT) are...
Mr
Cahit Ugur
(GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung)
9/28/11, 10:15 AM
A 32-channel Time-to-Digital Converter (TDC) was implemented in a general purpose Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA). The fine-time calculations are achieved by using the dedicated carry-chain lines. A low latency (30 ns) encoder handles the conversion of the fine time measurement. The coarse counter defines the coarse time stamp. In order to overcome the negative effects of temperature and...
Marian Krivda
(University of Birmingham, UK)
9/28/11, 10:15 AM
The ALICE trigger system in the experimental cavern processes information from triggering detectors at 3 hardware levels in p-p and Pb-Pb collisions. The performance of the system exceeds the specification and many automatic functions have been developed to facilitate work in the control room. The hardware is permanently monitored, and around 1200 counters, with considerable built-in...
Mr
Hervé Le Provost
(IRFU-CEA)
9/28/11, 11:00 AM
This contribution reports on the read-out system of the future KM3NeT undersea network of several thousands of synchronized optical detecting nodes. Each node embeds a specifically designed fully integrated communicating system based on Xilinx FPGA SoC technology. It runs the VxWorks real-time OS and DAQ software designed within the ICE middleware framework resulting in a highly flexible,...
Dr
Pamela Klabbers
(University of Wisconsin)
9/28/11, 11:00 AM
We present a design for the Phase-1 upgrade of the CMS calorimeter trigger system composed of FPGAs and Multi-GBit/sec links that adhere to the micro-TCA crate Telecom standard. The upgrade calorimeter trigger will implement algorithms that create collections of isolated and non-isolated electromagnetic objects, isolated and non-isolated tau objects and jet objects. The algorithms are...
Mr
Olivier Bourrion
(Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie (LPSC)-Univ)
9/28/11, 11:25 AM
Directional detection of non-baryonic Dark Matter requires 3D reconstruction of low energy nuclear recoils tracks. A gaseous micro-TPC matrix, filled with either 3He, CF4 or C4H10 has been developed within the MIMAC project.
A dedicated acquisition electronics and a real time track reconstruction software have been developed to monitor a 512 channel prototype. This auto-triggered electronic...
Dr
Hubert Kroha
(Max-Planck-Institut fuer Physik, Munich)
9/28/11, 11:25 AM
The upgrade of the LHC towards higher luminosity requires improved L1 trigger selectivity in order to keep the maximum total trigger rate at about 100 kHz. In the L1 muon trigger system this necessitates an increase of the pT threshold for single muons. Due to the limited spatial resolution of the trigger chambers, however, the selectivity for tracks above about 20 GeV/c is insufficient for an...
Dr
Gregory Michiel Iles
(Imperial College Sci., Tech. & Med.)
9/28/11, 11:50 AM
A novel approach to first-level hardware triggering has been studied and a prototype system built. Calorimeter trigger primitive data (~5 Tb/s) are reorganised and time-multiplexed so that a single processing node (FPGA) may access the data corresponding to the entire detector for a given bunch crossing. This provides maximal flexibility in the construction of new trigger algorithms, which...
Mr
Harold Yepes Ramirez
(IFIC-ANTARES)
9/28/11, 11:50 AM
ANTARES is the First full operational and the largest neutrino telescope in the Northern hemisphere. Located in the Mediterranean Sea, it consists of a 3D array of 885 photomultiplier tubes (PMTs) arranged in 12 detection lines (25 storeys each), able to detect the Cherenkov light induced by upgoing relativistic muons produced in the interaction of high energy cosmic neutrinos with the...
Mr
Carlos David Llorens
(Universidad Politécnica de Valencia representing the KM3NeT Consortium)
9/28/11, 12:15 PM
We describe the sound emission control board of an acoustic positioning system necessary to triangulate flexible optical detection lines in the KM3NeT future deep sea neutrino telescope. Such a positioning system must log the positions of optical sensors for Cherenkov radiation emitted in sea water to precisions of ~10cm, over a >1 km3 instrumented volume. This will be achieved by acoustic...
Janos Ero
(Institut fuer Hochenergiephysik (HEPHY))
9/28/11, 12:15 PM
The present CMS Trigger Drift Tube Track Finder Unit was designed between 2003 and 2006. The long Shutdown planned for 2016-2017 gives an opportunity to perform a basic upgrade of this system. The rapid technology development allows us to redesign the electronic groups and structures in such a way that a smaller, more reliable facility with easier control and reduced maintenance can be built.
Mr
Jan Sammet
(RWTH Aachen University)
9/28/11, 2:50 PM
Around 2016, the pixel detector of the CMS experiment will be upgraded. The amount of current that has to be provided to the front-end electronics is expected to increase by a factor of two. Since the space available for cables is limited, this would imply unacceptable power losses in the available supply cables. Therefore it is foreseen to place DC-DC converters close to the front-end...
Dr
Hung Pham
(DRS-IPHC (IReS), University of Strasbourg, CNRS-IN2P3)
9/28/11, 2:50 PM
ULTIMATE is a reticle size CMOS Pixel Sensor (CPS) designed to meet the requirements of the STAR pixel detector (PXL). It includes a pixel array of 928 rows and 960 columns with a 20.7µm pixel pitch, providing a sensitive area of ~3.8cm². Based on the sensor designed for the EUDET beam telescope, the device is a binary output sensor with integrated zero suppression circuitry featuring a 320...
Filipe Pereira Alves De Sousa
(Univ. do Porto-Unknown-Unknown)
9/28/11, 3:15 PM
Electronic circuits submitted to high doses of radiation are prone to functional failures. Due to the high cost of currently available radiation hard technologies, alternative design approaches, resort to available, yet less costly and higher performance, commercial CMOS technologies. To improve radiation tolerance within these technologies specific design and layout methodologies are...
Wieslaw Iwanski
(CERN/INP PAN Cracow)
9/28/11, 3:40 PM
The Atlas infrastructure, including also power distribution, has been built from scratch for the purpose of the LHC experiment. This provided more freedom and helped to deploy modern solutions. It this document will be presented examples of different approaches to implement electrical distribution. Ways to achieve the expected level of control will be demonstrated, statistics presenting usage...
Mr
Guido Magazzu
(UCSB/INFN)
9/28/11, 3:40 PM
A radiation tolerant integrated circuit for the distribution of clock, trigger and controls in the Front-End electronics of the CMS End-Cap Muon detector has been developed in the IBM CMOS 130nm technology. The circuit houses transmitter and receiver interfaces to serial links implementing the FF-LYNX protocol that allows the integrated transmission of triggers and data frames with different...
Tobias Flick
(Bergische Universitaet Wuppertal (DE))
9/28/11, 4:30 PM
Maria Cristina Esteban Lallana
(Instituto Tecnologico de Aragon)
9/28/11, 4:35 PM
Ken Wyllie
(CERN)
9/28/11, 4:40 PM
192.
CMS Tracker: Status of the optical system / optical system upgrades and associated developments
Dr
Jan Troska
(CERN)
9/28/11, 4:55 PM
Michal Bochenek
(Conseil Europeen Recherche Nucl. (CERN))
9/28/11, 4:55 PM
Alexander Singovski
(University of Minnesota (US))
9/28/11, 5:10 PM
Eric Shearer Hazen
(Boston University (US))
9/28/11, 5:25 PM
Georges Blanchot
(CERN),
Stefano Michelis
(CERN)
9/28/11, 5:35 PM
Stefan Simion
(Universite de Paris-Sud 11 (FR))
9/28/11, 5:40 PM
Laura Gonella
(Universitaet Bonn (DE))
9/28/11, 5:55 PM
Tobias Flick
(Bergische Universitaet Wuppertal (DE))
9/28/11, 5:55 PM
Philippe Farthouat
(CERN)
9/28/11, 6:15 PM
Dr
Eric CASSAN
(IEF - Univ. Paris Sud Orsay)
9/29/11, 9:00 AM
Silicon photonics has received a growing interest in the last years due to the possibility to realize strongly miniaturized photonic circuits using CMOS-compatible techniques and processes, and to the possible forthcoming integration of optical functions with electronics on the same chips. Passive and active devices have been demonstrated to distribute and manipulate light using a vast panel...
Mr
Spyridon Papadopoulos
(CERN)
9/29/11, 10:15 AM
The forthcoming increase of rate of data production and radiation levels, associated with the transition to HL-LHC, necessitates a readout link upgrade. This upgrade is also an opportunity to move to a more efficient network infrastructure and to introduce new technologies and it is in light of this that we explore the possibility of using a unified architecture based on Reflective...
Mr
Michael Woods
(University of California Davis)
9/29/11, 10:15 AM
The SiD collaboration is developing a Si-W sampling electromagnetic calorimeter, with anticipated application for the International Linear Collider. Assembling the modules for such a detector will involve bonding technologies for the interconnects, especially silicon detector wafer to a flex-cable readout bus attachments. We review the interconnect technologies involved, including oxidation...
Dr
Anna Macchiolo
(Max-Planck-Institut fuer Physik)
9/29/11, 11:00 AM
We will report on the characterization of pixel modules composed of 75 microns thick n-in-p sensors and ATLAS FE-I3 chips, interconnected via the SLID (Solid Liquid Inter-Diffusion) technology. This technique, developed at Fraunhofer-EMFT, is employed as an alternative to the bump-bonding process. These modules have been designed as a demonstration of a very compact detector to be employed...
Dr
Anthony Weidberg
(Nuclear Physics Laboratory)
9/29/11, 11:00 AM
Severe problems with VCSEL reliability have been observed in ATLAS operation. ATLAS has developed the use of Optical Spectrum Analysers as a sensitive indication of VCSEL damage. These studies and detailed microscopic investigations have shown that the observed VCSEL reliability issues have been caused by moderate levels of humidity combined with the use of non-hermetic packages. Long term...
Dr
Sandro Bonacini
(CERN)
9/29/11, 11:25 AM
The radiation characteristics with respect to Total Ionizing Dose (TID) of a 65 nm CMOS technology has been investigated. Single transistor structures of a variety of dimensions and several basic circuits were designed and fabricated. The circuits include a 64-kbit shift-register, a 9-kbit SRAM, a ring-oscillator, a low noise preamplifier, a low-power discriminator and two 6-bit DACs with...
Mr
David Hall
(University of Oxford)
9/29/11, 11:25 AM
The Versatile Link (VL) project is developing a high-speed optical link for the HL-LHC. 850 nm VCSELs are more radiation-hard than 1310 nm EELs. Previous tests on multimode fibres at -25°C at 27 kGy/hr showed unacceptable radiation induced absorption. We have developed a CO2 cooling system which will be used in late June to irradiate cold fibres at low dose rates (1 kGy/hr) to the full HL-LHC...
Dr
Paschalis Vichoudis
(CERN)
9/29/11, 11:50 AM
We have designed and built an FPGA-based platform for users of high speed optical links in high energy physics experiments. The Gigabit Link Interface Board (GLIB) serves both as a platform for the evaluation of optical links in the laboratory as well as a triggering and/or data acquisition system in beam or irradiation tests of detector modules. The GLIB is a double width Advanced Mezzanine...
Ms
Evangelia GOUSIOU
(CERN)
9/29/11, 12:15 PM
WorldFIP is a deterministic fieldbus used in the LHC for the communication with a variety of systems. There are more than 10.000 WorldFIP agents installed all around the LHC tunnel and exposed to a complex radiation field. A new customized version of WorldFIP agents, the nanoFIP, housed in an Actel ProASIC3 FPGA, has been developed at CERN in cooperation with the industry. The paper describes...
165.
Organic and Printed Large-area Electronics: Disruptive Technologies for Innovative Applications
Dr
Eugenio Cantatore
(Eindhoven University of Technology)
9/29/11, 2:00 PM
Organic electronics is manufactured with carbon-based semiconductors that are processed at low temperature, and thus can be deployed on thin, flexible substrates like plastic foils and paper. Organic semiconductors are often available as ink-like solutions, thus high throughput fabrication of electronics using processes normally designed for graphical printing is feasible and has been the...
Mr
Claudio Gotti
(INFN Milano Bicocca and Università di Firenze)
9/29/11, 4:00 PM
An integrated charge sensitive preamplifier was designed in 90 nm CMOS technology. The chip is part of the R&D effort towards the upgrade of the pixel sensors of the CMS detector. It was submitted in april 2010, and was received and tested in autumn 2010.
In the design of the amplifier block, a single ended structure was preferred over a differential one, in order to achieve a lower noise....
Dr
Hervé Chanal
(Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire de Clermont-Ferrand), Mr
Yannick Denis Zoccarato
(Institut de Physique Nucleaire de Lyon (IPNL)-Universite Claude)
9/29/11, 4:00 PM
FEAFS chip has been designed for a future sCMS Silicon Strip Tracker. Its primary function is to provide a 40 MHz selective readout of particle hits useful to establish the 100kHz hardware trigger of the experiment. To achieve this goal, the chip identifies clusters of limited number of activated strips and correlated in position in two closely superimposed sensors connected to the same chip....
Mr
Maximilian Buechele
(Physikalisches Institut der Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet Freiburg)
9/29/11, 4:00 PM
The GANDALF 6U-VME64x/VXS module has been developed for the digitization and real time analysis of detector signals. Based on this platform, we present a 128-channel TDC which is implemented in a single Xilinx Virtex-5 FPGA using a shifted-clock-sampling method. A particular challenge of this algorithm is the predictable placement of the logic components and the uniform routing inside the...
Dr
Riccardo Travaglini
(INFN-Bologna)
9/29/11, 4:00 PM
he ATLAS experiment at LHC planned to upgrade the existing Pixel Detector with the insertion of an innermost silicon layer, called Insertable B-layer (IBL).A new front-end ASIC has been foreseen (named FE-I4) and it will be readout with improved off-detector electronics. In particular, the new Read-Out Driver module (ROD) is a VME-based board designed to process a four-fold data throughput....
Mr
Daniel Paer Erik Eriksson
(Department of Physics-Stockholm University-Unknown)
9/29/11, 4:00 PM
Upgrade plans for ATLAS hadronic calorimeter (TileCal) include full readout of all data to the counting room. We are developing a possible implementation of the future readout and trigger electronics aiming at a full functional demonstrator during Phase 0, starting from an existing functional test slice assembled using a combination of prototypes and emulators. Presently the first version of...
Giovanni Mazza
(INFN sez. di Torino, Italy)
9/29/11, 4:00 PM
The GigaBit Transceiver (GBT) project aims at the design of a radiation tolerant chip set for high speed optical data transmission. The chipset includes the GigaBit Laser Driver (GBLD), a radiation tolerant ASIC designed in a standard CMOS 130 nm technology. The GBLD is a laser driver designed to work to up to 5 Gb/s and capable to drive both VCSELs and some types of edge emitting lasers. The...
Jan Scheirich
(Czech Technical University in Prague, Faculty of Electrical Engineering)
9/29/11, 4:00 PM
The DEPFET is an active pixel particle detector, in which a MOSFET is integrated in each pixel, providing first amplification stage of readout electronics. Excellent signal over noise performance is provided this way. The DEPFET sensor will be used as an inner pixel detector in the BELLE II experiment at electron-positron SuperKEKB collider in Japan. The DEPFET sensor requires switching and...
Mr
Frédéric Druillole
(CEA Saclay)
9/29/11, 4:00 PM
To prepare future experiment, we need to qualify new solid state detectors and gaseous TPC. From T2K experiment and GET project, we develop a small board constituted of two 64 AGET asic, a 4-channel pipeline adc and a smart commercial board called “AVNET minimodule” to sequence the acquisition and send data in TCP/IP mode through the Ethernet network. The size of the board is 15 cm x 8 cm....
Dr
Yifan Yang
(Université Libre de Bruxelles)
9/29/11, 4:00 PM
This talk describes a high speed ethernet-based data and clock network for applications which require an array of multiple sensor nodes distributed over distances of up to 250 m from a central hub. Speeds of up to 100 Mbit/sec and clock skew at the level of 50 ps are acheivable using commercially available network-grade twisted pair cables and low-power ethernet transceiver circuits. No...
Mr
Andreas Ebling
(J.G.U. Mainz)
9/29/11, 4:00 PM
The existing ATLAS trigger consists of three levels. The level 1 (L1) is an FPGAs based custom designed trigger, while the second
and third levels are software based.\\
The LHC machine plans to bring the beam energy to the nominal
value of 7 TeV and to increase the luminosity in the coming years.
The current L1 trigger system is therefore seriously challenged.\\
To cope with the...
Mr
Tuomas Sakari Poikela
(University of Turku / CERN)
9/29/11, 4:00 PM
We examine two digital architectures for front end pixel readout chips, Velopix and Timepix3. These readout chips are developed for tracking detectors in future high energy physics experiments. They must incorporate local intelligence in pixels for time-over-threshold measurement and sparse readout. In addition, Velopix must be immune to single-event upsets in its digital logic. The most...
Jerôme Pibernat
(CENBG/CNRS/IN2P3)
9/29/11, 4:00 PM
In experiments with radioactive beams from heavy ions facilities it is shown that active targets and TPCs experimental methods are effective means to study nuclear spectroscopy. The principle advantages are good resolution, versatility and high luminosity. To address the needs of the nuclear Physics community we are in the process of developing a Generic Electronic system for TPCs (GET) to...
Mr
David Pierre Martin
(Lab. Phys. Nucl. Hautes Energies (LPNHE)-Univ. P. et Marie Curi)
9/29/11, 4:00 PM
The ASPIC chip has been designed to readout the 3.2Gpixels of the LSST camera focal plane. The dynamic range is more than 16 bit and the noise has to be less than 7µV rms with a crosstalk better than 0.05%. The architecture, chosen by LSST, is based on a “Correlated Double Sampling” with a “Dual Slope Integrator” method.
Many modular tests benches have been developed to qualify this chip and...
Mr
FU Yunan
(Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien)
9/29/11, 4:00 PM
The paper presents a design of CMOS Pixel Sensor (CPS) using the vertical integration technology (3DIT), expected to alleviate the most essential limitations of 2D-CPS. Our objective is to develop an intelligent architecture in order to meet the requirements of the innermost layer of the International Linear Collider (ILC) vertex detector, which are particularly demanding in spatial resolution...
Mr
Jens Verbeeck
(K.U.Leuven), Prof.
Paul Leroux
(K.U. Leuven)
9/29/11, 4:00 PM
The design of a radiation tolerant configurable discrete time signal conditioning circuit in 130nm CMOS technology for use with resistive sensors like strain gauge pressure sensors is presented. The circuit is intended to be used for remote handling in harsh environments in the International Experimental Thermonuclear fusion Reactor (ITER). The design features a 1.5V differential preamplifier...
Dr
Tiankuan Liu
(Southern Methodist University (US))
9/29/11, 4:00 PM
In this paper we present the R&D towards cryogenic digital data links for a Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (LArTPC). An electrical data link with a commercial LVDS driver and a 20-meter CAT5E twisted pair can work up to 1 Gbps at liquid nitrogen temperature or 77 K. Components of a cryogenic optical data link, including a serializer ASIC, laser diodes, optical fibers, and optical...
Dr
Remi Jean Noel Cornat
(Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet (LLR)-Ecole Polytechnique-Unknown)
9/29/11, 4:00 PM
Calorimeters for a future International Linear Collider developed within the CALICE collaboration will feature about 10^8 channels. A scalable control and data acquisition system was developed. Is is based on GigaEthernet and a specific serial link packing slow control, fast control and read out data. Most of the hardware and firmware components are shared among the various detectors. The...
Dr
Erdem Motuk
(University College London)
9/29/11, 4:00 PM
The development of the Clock and Control (CC) hardware and firmware for the EuXFEL DAQ system is presented. The system exploits the data handling advances provided by the new telecommunication architecture standard for physics. The CC is responsible for synchronising the DAQ system to overall system timing. The hardware consists of a DESY designed MTCA.4 board and a UCL designed Rear...
Mr
Martin Postranecky
(Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London)
9/29/11, 4:00 PM
ATLAS-SCT has developed a new ATLAS trigger card, 'Digital Atlas Vme Electronics' ("DAVE"). The unit was designed to provide a versatile array of interface and logic resources, including a large FPGA. It interfaces to both VME bus and USB hosts.
DAVE aims to provide exact ATLAS CTP functionality, with random trigger, simple and complex deadtime, ECR, BCR etc. being generated to give exactly...
John Coughlan
(STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)
9/29/11, 4:00 PM
The Train Builder is an Advanced Telecom ATCA based custom data acquisition system designed to provide a common readout system for the large 2D Mega-pixel detectors presently under construction for the European-XFEL facility in Hamburg. Each detector outputs 10 GBytes/sec of raw data over multiple 10 Gbps SFP+ optical links. The Train Builder DAQ system will merge detector link image fragments...
Olivier Raymond Bourrion
(Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie (LPSC)-Univ)
9/29/11, 4:00 PM
A front end ASIC has been designed to equip the µTPC prototype developed for the MIMAC project, which requires 3D reconstruction of low energy particle tracks in order to perform directional detection of galactic Dark Matter.
Each ASIC is able to monitor 64 strips of pixels and provides the “Time Over Threshold” information for each of those. This 64 digital information, sampled at a rate of...
Ivo Polak
(Institute of Physics)
9/29/11, 4:00 PM
We will present some new ideas on the design of different parts of DC/DC converter which operates on Very High Frequency. I show different topologies, and its power efficiency influence, which is being achieved during design stage of 2 years project called Brahms. There are recent interesting results, but not final solution yet. The presentation is focused to the perspective of power...
Mr
Dominik Przyborowski
(AGH University of Science and Technology)
9/29/11, 4:00 PM
The design and measurements of 8--bits DACs based on L--2L ladder architecture are presented. The main design goals were low power consumption and low area. Such features allow using the DAC for channel parameter trimming in multichannel readout system. The PMOS and NMOS based DACs are studied in wide range of biasing conditions and for two operation modes -- as current generator and current...
Christian Neher
(University of California at Davis)
9/29/11, 4:00 PM
As silicon detectors in HEP require increasingly complex assembly procedures, the availability of a wide variety of interconnect technologies provides more options for overcoming obstacles in generic R&D. I present recent progress and challenges faced in various interconnect technologies: gold stud and double gold stud bonding, deposition and bonding of indium bumps, solder ball bonding and...
Sergio Gonzalez Sevilla
(DPNC, University of Geneva)
9/29/11, 4:00 PM
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will extend its current physics programme by increasing the peak luminosity by one order of magnitude. For ATLAS, an upgrade scenario will imply the complete replacement of its internal tracker. The super-module programme is an integration concept for the barrel short-strip region of the future ATLAS tracker in which double-sided silicon micro-strip modules are...
Mr
Christian Irmler
(HEPHY Vienna)
9/29/11, 4:00 PM
In the Belle II SVD readout chain the analog singnals will be transmitted over long lines. This leads to signal distortion, caused by the frequency dependent transfer function of the cable and also by reflections, which occour whenever the line impedance changes.
One possibility to compensate these effects is a dedicated filter at the receiver end.
This presentation describes the approach to...
Dr
Nicolas Pillet
(Lab. de Physique Corpusculaire (LPC))
9/29/11, 4:00 PM
The ATLAS upgrade will require more efficient electronics to fulfil the new performances expected by the experiment. Concerning the readout electronics of the Tile Calorimeter, the replacement of the 3in1 board by an integrated circuit is under study. The proposed circuit is composed of a multi-gain current conveyor, followed by shapers, an integrator for the calibration and an...
Jose Carlos Rasteiro Da Silva
(LIP Laboratorio de Instrumentacao e Fisica Experimental de Part)
9/29/11, 4:00 PM
This poster describes the implementation of a flexible system for the electromagnetic calorimeter (ECAL) Off Detector (OD) electronics firmware update and the corresponding software tools designed to manage the update operation. The idea is to equip each ECAL VME64x crate with the new JTAG Distribution Board (JDB) that access XILINX and ALTERA FPGAs JTAG chains for trigger (TCC68/48) and data...
Dr
Huaishen LI
(IHEP, C.A.S.)
9/29/11, 4:00 PM
The upgrade of Beijing Synchrotron Radiation Facility(BSRF) need two-dimensional position-sensitive detection equipment to improve the experimental performance. New structures and new technology GEM detector, in particular, pixel-based(Pad) GEM detector, has good prospects in the domain of synchrotron radiation and high energy physics experiments for its simple structure, superior performance...
Mr
Francesco Zappon
(Nikhef)
9/29/11, 4:00 PM
GOSSIPO-4 is a prototype chip featuring an array of high resolution Time to Digital Converters (TDC) with a PLL control that will be taped out on the 9th of August 2011. This prototype is the successor of GOSSIPO-3 test chip and the precursor of the 65k pixel TimePix3 chip. The prototype is being developed to test a set of new features that will be used in TimePix3, including a 8 pixel...
Dr
David Cussans
(University of Bristol)
9/29/11, 4:00 PM
Initial tests the CBC binary readout chip connected to a sensor are presented.
Dr
Pablo Vazquez Regueiro
(University of Santiago de Compostela, IGFAE)
9/29/11, 4:00 PM
The Pixel Detector (PXD) of the Belle II experiment at superKEKB accelerator in Japan is based in the DEPFET technology. Two layers of 8+12 modules at a radius of 13 and 22 mm will give a spatial resolution below 10 µm. The radiation level expected in the first layer in ten years of operation is about 10 MRad of total ionizing dose. In order to study the tolerance of the DEPFET technology...
Mr
Tobias Harion
(Kirchhoff Institute for Physics)
9/29/11, 4:00 PM
KLauS is an ASIC in AMS 350nm Bicmos Technology with 12 Silicion Photomultiplier (SiPM) readout channels. It is designed to be used in the plastic sintillator based Analog Hadron Calorimeter (AHCal) at a future Linear Collider. Its dynamic range reaches 200pC and SNR is better than 10 for single photon signal of very low gain SiPMs. The chip provides 2V bias tuning to compensate SiPM...
Dr
Peter Wieczorek
(GSI Darmstadt, Germany)
9/29/11, 4:00 PM
For the electromagnetic calorimeter of the PANDA - Experiment the ASIC – Design – Group of the GSI – Experiment – Electronics department developed an integrated preamplifier and shaper ASIC. The chip developed for spectroscopy using is optimized for the readout of large area avalanche photo diodes (LAAPD) with a capacitance of 280 pF and an event rate of 350 kHz. Each ASIC has two equivalent...
Mrs
Nathalie Seguin-Moreau
(LAL)
9/29/11, 4:00 PM
MICRO MEsh GAseous Structure (MICROMEGAS) and Gas Electron Multipliers (GEM) detectors are two candidates for the active part of a Digital Hadronic CALorimeter (DHCAL) as part of a high energy physics experiment at the International Linear Collider. Physics requirements lead to a highly granular hadronic calorimeter with up to thirty million channels with probably only hit information (digital...
Dr
Babak Rahbaran
(HEPHY Vienna--Institute of High Energy Physics Vienna)
9/29/11, 4:00 PM
At LHC 40 million collisions of proton bunches occur every second, resulting in about 800 million proton collisions. The Level-1 trigger, a custom designed electronics system based on FPGA technology and the VMEbus system, performs a quick on-line analysis of each collision every 25 ns and decides whether to reject or to accept it for further analysis. As part of the Global Trigger Upgrade,...
Mr
Erik van der Bij
(CERN)
9/29/11, 4:00 PM
The accelerator control systems at CERN will be renovated and many electronics modules like analog and digital I/O, level converters and repeaters, serial links and timing modules are being redesigned.
The new developments are based on VITA and PCI-SIG standards such as FMC, PCI Express and VME64x. The Wishbone specification is used as SOC bus.
To attract partners, the projects are...
Maria Cristina Esteban Lallana
(Instituto Tecnologico de Aragon)
9/29/11, 4:00 PM
The characterization of electromagnetic noise of DC-DC converters is a critical issue that has been analyzed during the design phase of CMS tracker upgrade. Previous simulation studies showed important variations of conducted emission of DC-DC converters among impedances and power network topologies. Several tests have been performed on real DC-DC converters to validate the Pspice model and...
Andrea Brogna
(Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, Institut für Prozessdatenverarbeitung und Elektronik)
9/29/11, 4:00 PM
We discuss the power supply and distribution for new linear accelerators in particular with respect to the innovative architecture of the pulsing mode. The possibility to exploit the small duty-cycle becomes a critical factor to optimize the peak and mean power over the connections and cabling to reduce the loss, undesidered heating generation and interference and other sources of noise. We...
Dr
Jan Troska
(CERN PH/ESE)
9/29/11, 4:00 PM
The CMS Pixel detector phase 1 upgrade calls for an optical readout system operating digitally at or above 320 Mb/s. Since the re-use of the existing link components as installed is excluded, we have designed a new Pixel Optohybrid (POH) for use within this system. We report on the design and choice of components as well as their measured performance. In particular, we have studied the...
Gianluca Traversi
(University of Bergamo and INFN Pavia)
9/29/11, 4:00 PM
In a DNW MAPS a full in-pixel signal processing chain is integrated by exploiting the triple well option of a deep submicron CMOS process. Various solutions complying with different sensor layout and pixel pitch have been fabricated in a planar (2D) 130nm CMOS technology. This work will discuss the design and characterization of deep N-well (DNW) monolithic active pixel sensors (MAPS)...
Mr
Nicolai Schroer
(ZITI, LS Informatik V, Heidelberg University, Mannheim)
9/29/11, 4:00 PM
The pixel detector of the ATLAS experiment at CERN will be upgraded with an additional layer (IBL) in 2013. To handle the data readout the currently used VME card pairs consisting of a back of crate card (BOC) and a read out driver (ROD) are being redesigned. We present details of the hardware design of the new BOC prototype. It takes advantage from modern FPGA technology and commercial...
Ms
Eva Vilella
(University of Barcelona)
9/29/11, 4:00 PM
The gated operation is proposed as an effective method to reduce and uniformize noise figures in particle tracking pixel detectors based on Geiger mode avalanche photodiodes for future linear colliders. A protoype based on a 3x3 array with the sensor and the front-end electronics monolithically integrated has been fabricated with the conventional HV-AMS 0.35µm technology. Experimental results...
Mikhail Matveev
(Rice University)
9/29/11, 4:00 PM
We present the status of hardware and software tools for remote access to Xilinx programmable devices in the Cathode Strip Chamber Endcap Muon Electronic System at the CMS experiment at CERN.
Dr
Jan Troska
(CERN PH/ESE)
9/29/11, 4:00 PM
The Versatile Transceiver will be deployed on detectors that will be operated at the upgraded HL-LHC where the instantaneous luminosity will be increased by a factor of 5-10 with respect to the nominal LHC. All components housed at the front-ends must thus be immune to single-event upsets to a level compatible with the correct operation of the detector systems. We will carry out an...
Gisele Martin-Chassard
(Unknown)
9/29/11, 4:00 PM
The SPACIROC ASIC is designed for the JEM-EUSO observatory onboard of the International Space Station (ISS). The main goal of JEM-EUSO is to observe Extensive Air Shower (EAS) produced in the atmosphere by the passage of the high energetic extraterrestrial particles above a few 10^19 eV. A low-power, rad-hard ASIC is proposed for reading out the 64-channel Multi-Anode Photomultipliers which...
Mr
Lukas Püllen
(Bergische Universitaet Wuppertal)
9/29/11, 4:00 PM
In the context of the LHC upgrade to the HL-LHC the inner detector of the ATLAS experiment will be replaced completely. As part of this redesign there will also be an new pixel detector. This new pixel detector requires a control system which meets the strict space requirements for electronics in the ATLAS experiment. To accomplish this goal we propose a DCS (Detector Control System) network...
Dr
Elena Pedreschi
(Sezione di Pisa (INFN)), Dr
Franco Spinella
(Sezione di Pisa (INFN))
9/29/11, 4:00 PM
The main goal of the NA62 experiment at the CERN SPS is to measure the branching ratio of the K+ → π+νν decay, collecting about 100 events in two years of data taking.
The nature of the experiment puts stringent requirements on the trigger and data acquisition system: the efficient online selection of interesting events and loss-less readout at high rate will be key issues. Readout uniformity...
Dr
Alexander Grillo
(UCSC)
9/29/11, 4:00 PM
The Semi-Conductor Tracker in the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider is potentially subject to various beam loss scenarios. It is important to understand what the effect of such an event would be on the operation of the SCT detector. Previous tests have shown the ABCD ASIC to be the weak point of the SCT modules when exposed to the intense radiation of a beam loss incident....
Mr
Mikhail Lemarenko
(Physikalisches Institut-Universitaet Bonn)
9/29/11, 4:00 PM
A major upgrade of the current Japanese B-Factory (KEK-B) is planned by the fall of 2013. Together with this new machine (SuperKEK-B), also a new detector, BelleII, will be operated to fully exploit the higher luminosity (40 times larger than the previous experiment). One of the major changes in the new experiment will be the introduction of a new sub-detector, close to the interaction point,...
Dr
Hans Muller
(CERN), Dr
José Francisco Toledo Alarcón
(Valencia Polytechnic University)
9/29/11, 4:00 PM
The Scalable Readout System (SRS) was developed within RD51 collaboration as a multi-channel readout system, allowing ASICs, hybrids or discrete frontends with analog, binary or digital readout over a customizable link interface. User-specific frontends are linked to adapter cards which are straddle-mounted to Front-end Concentrator cards (FEC). The ensemble (Adapter + FEC card) forms a 6Ux220...
Mr
Damien Thienpont
(IN2P3/LAL)
9/29/11, 4:00 PM
A low-power and low-area circular memory has been designed in a 130 nm technology. This prototype aims to be integrated into a plannar pixel sensors readout 3D integrated circuit for the future ATLAS high luminosity upgrade.
Three types of memory cell have been designed: one with Typical transistors, an other with low-Vt transistors and the last one with custom enclosed transistors. The...
Dr
David Gascon
(Universidad de Barcelona)
9/29/11, 4:00 PM
The future international high energy gamma ray observatory, the Cherenkov telescope Array (CTA), will consist in an array of 50-100 dishes of various sizes and various spacing, each equipped with a camera, made of few thousands fast photodetectors and its associated front-end electronics. The total number of electronics channels will be larger than 100,000 to be compared to the total of 6,000...
Mr
Jan Michel
(Goethe University Frankfurt)
9/29/11, 4:00 PM
The data transport and trigger system of the HADES di-electron spectrometer operating at GSI, Germany was upgraded recently. The main goal was to substantially increase the event rate capabilities to reach trigger rates of up to 100 kHz and data rates of 400 MByte/s.
The whole data communication system is based on FPGA-equipped platforms connected by optical links. Here, a custom network...
Mr
Andrej Seljak
(IJS Institute Ljubljana)
9/29/11, 4:00 PM
We are developing the readout electronics for the proximity focusing hybrid avalanche photon detector (HAPD), the baseline photon sensor of the Belle II aerogel RICH. The detector, positioned in the spectrometer forward direction inside the 1.5 T magnetic field, has to efficiently detect the single photons. The readout electronics has to digitize small analog signals and transfer them to the...
Dr
Mauro Raggi
(Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati (LNF)-Istituto Nazionale Fisic)
9/29/11, 4:00 PM
The branching ratio for the decay K+ -> pi+ nu anti-nu is sensitive to new physics; the NA62 experiment will measure it to within about 10%. To reject the dominant background from channels with final state photons, the large-angle vetoes (LAVs) must detect particles with 1-ns time resolution and 10% energy resolution over a very large energy range.
Our custom readout board uses a...
Dr
Giuseppe Giraudo
(INFN-Torino)
9/29/11, 4:00 PM
The Micro Vertex Detector (the MVD) for the Panda experiment is optimized for the detection of the secondary vertices and for maximum acceptance close to the interaction point. The experimental set-up requires sophisticated solutions for the detector integration in order to maintain a stringent material budget. The thermal power produced by the “on board” read-out electronics is fast removed...
Mr
Peter Lemmens
(KVI, University of Groningen)
9/29/11, 4:00 PM
The PANDA collaboration at the future FAIR facility at Darmstadt, Germany, will employ antiproton annihilations to investigate yet undiscovered charm-mesons and glueballs. The rich physics program requires various sophisticated event-selection criteria based e.g. on invariant mass, secondary vertices, and time correlations. Therefore, the readout electronics is designed such that all detectors...
Dr
Vasilii Kushpil
(Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (ASCR))
9/29/11, 4:00 PM
New electronic single board tester described here allows us to test and compare basic characteristics of new types of the APD (SiPMD, MCAPD, GAPD). The tester was realized in a portable form with graphics LCD and three controls buttons. It can measure statical and dynamical characteristics of the APD. We applied virtual periphery concept for very fast and simple way to measure the S/N...
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Update on the high speed serializer ASIC development for ATLAS Liquid Argon calorimeter upgrade
Tiankuan Liu
(Southern Methodist University (US))
9/29/11, 4:00 PM
The upgrade of ATLAS Liquid Argon (LAr) calorimeter readout calls for an optical link system of 100 Gbps per front-end board (FEB). A high speed, low power, radiation tolerant serializer is the critical component in this system. We are addressing the problem by iterative design previously reported at TWEPP with a commercial 0.25 μm silicon-on-sapphire CMOS technology we have evaluated to be...
Dr
Roberto Ammendola
(INFN Roma Tor Vergata)
9/29/11, 4:00 PM
We present test results and characterization of a data compression system for the readout of the NA62 liquid krypton calorimeter trigger processor.
The Level 0 electromagnetic calorimeter trigger processor of the NA62 experiment at CERN receives digitized data from the calorimeter main readout board. These data are stored on-board on DDR2 latency memories and readout upon reception of a Level...
Mr
Peter Lemmens
(KVI, University of Groningen)
9/29/11, 4:00 PM
Charm-meson resonances and yet undiscovered glueballs might reveal the origin of the hadronic mass spectrum. The PANDA collaboration at the future FAIR synchrotron facility at Darmstadt, Germany, will employ antiproton annihilations to investigate resonances in the charmonium mass region. In order to gain high flexibility for physics event selection, a trigger-less data-acquisition system is...
Elliot Lipeles
(University of Pennsylvania)
9/30/11, 9:00 AM
The HL-LHC, the planned high luminosity upgrade for the LHC, will increase the collision rate in the ATLAS detector approximately a factor of 5 beyond the luminosity for which the detectors were designed, while also increasing the number of pile-up collisions in each event by a similar factor. This means that the level-1 trigger must achieve a higher rejection factor in a more difficult...
Jorgen Christiansen
(CERN),
Kostas Kloukinas
(CERN)
9/30/11, 11:45 AM
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