TWEPP 2012 Topical Workshop on Electronics for Particle Physics

Session

B5b

Systems

20 Sept 2012, 11:10

Oxford University, UK

Conveners

B5b: Systems, Planning, installation, commissioning and running experience

• Wesley Smith (University of Wisconsin (US))

6. The TrainBuilder ATCA Data Acquisition Board for the European XFEL

John Coughlan (STFC - Science & Technology Facilities Council (GB))

20/09/2012, 11:10

Oral

The TrainBuilder is an Advanced Telecom ATCA data acquisition board being developed at the STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory to provide readout for the large 2D Mega-pixel detectors under construction for the European-XFEL in Hamburg. Each ATCA board can process ~8 GBytes/sec of raw detector data. The Train Builder system merges up to 5,120 partial detector images per second using FPGAs with...

12. The front-end electronics of the Spectrometer Telescope for Imaging X-Rays (STIX) on-board the ESA Solar Orbiter satellite

Oliver Grimm (ETH Zürich)

20/09/2012, 11:35

Oral

The front-end electronics design and interface to the data processing unit of the STIX X-ray spectrometer on the ESA Solar Orbiter satellite is presented. Solar Orbiter will be launched in 2017 to study sun/heliosphere interactions. STIX detects X-rays with Cadmium Telluride crystals in the energy range 4-150 keV. An ASIC (IdeF-X HD) with separate ADC is used for read-out. To achieve 1 keV...

68. Highly segmented electromagnetic Calorimeter prototype

Dominik Fehlker (University of Bergen (NO))

20/09/2012, 12:00

Oral

A prototype of a highly segmented electromagnetic calorimeter has been developed. The detector tower is made of 24 layers of PHASE2/MIMOSA23 silicon sensors sandwiched between tungsten plates, with 4 sensors per layer, resulting in 39 MPixels in total. A detector readout and control system was developed, containing two Spartan 6 and one Virtex 6 FPGA, and running embedded Linux. In 550 ms 4...