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The High Granularity Timing Detector (HGTD) is an upgrade of the ATLAS experiment for the High-Luminosity LHC that will instrument the forward region of the detector.
It will measure the time of arrival of particles with a resolution of 30-50 ps per track and provide an estimate of per-bunch luminosity, mitigating the contribution of pileup in the reconstruction of physics objects.
HGTD is composed of 8032 modules for a total of 3.6 million readout channels. Each module will need to be individually tested before the installation in the detector.
An FPGA-based readout system has been developed and recently scaled to readout 6 modules simultaneously, to match the assembly rate criteria imposed by the construction timelines.
A full suite of tests for the verification of the modules has been determined, and these test will need to be repeated multiple times for the assembly and integration phases of the detector construction, and will need to be conducted in the various assembly and integration sites.
A dedicated Graphical Users Interface (GUI) was developed to simplify and automate these tests, streamlining the test procedure and the interface with the HGTD database.
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