Conveners
Systems, Planning, installation, commissioning and running experience
- Wesley Smith (University of Wisconsin (US))
Systems, Planning, installation, commissioning and running experience
- Jean-Pierre Cachemiche (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))
Systems, Planning, installation, commissioning and running experience
- Geoff Hall (Imperial College Sci., Tech. & Med. (GB))
Systems, Planning, installation, commissioning and running experience
- Geoff Hall (Imperial College Sci., Tech. & Med. (GB))
Systems, Planning, installation, commissioning and running experience
- Jean-Pierre Cachemiche (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))
Systems, Planning, installation, commissioning and running experience
- Jean-Pierre Cachemiche (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))
Georg Auzinger
(CERN)
30/09/2015, 11:35
Systems
Oral
This contribution will highlight the deployment of the CTA AMC as backend for the CMS Phase1 pixel detector that will run on a fully digital 400Mbps optical read-out link. The system architecture, the actual hardware and experiences with test systems and a pilot system installed in CMS will be presented.
Chengxin Zhao
(University of Oslo (NO))
30/09/2015, 12:00
Systems
Oral
This paper presents the first performance results of the ALICE TPC Readout Control Unit2 (RCU2). With the upgraded hardware typology and the new readout scheme in FPGA design, the RCU2 is designed to achieve twice the readout speed of the first RCU. Design choices such as using the flash-based Microsemi Smartfusion2 FPGA and applying mitigation techniques in interfaces and FPGA design ensure a...
Joachim Schambach
(University of Texas (US))
30/09/2015, 14:50
Systems
Oral
The Heavy Flavor Tracker (HFT) is a recently installed micro-vertex detector upgrade to the STAR experiment at RHIC, consisting of three subsystems with various technologies of silicon sensors arranged in 4 concentric cylinders. The two innermost layers of the HFT close to the beam pipe, the Pixel (“PXL”) subsystem, employ CMOS MAPS technology that integrates the sensor, front-end electronics,...
Herve Chanal
(Univ. Blaise Pascal Clermont-Fe. II (FR))
30/09/2015, 15:15
Systems
Oral
A new detector made of scintillating fibres read out by silicon photomultipliers (SiPM) is planned for the LHCb detector upgrade, foreseen in 2018/19. The development of a dedicated readout electronics in the harsh LHC environment bears challenges.
Each SiPM generates 10.24Gb/s of data after the digitization leading to a data rate of 9.1Tb/s for the full detector. Such a large amount of data...
Paul Rubinov
(Fermilab)
30/09/2015, 15:40
Systems
Oral
The Mu2e experiment requires a very high efficiency (99.99%) Cosmic Ray Veto to reject events that mimic signals. The CRV covers an area of 323 sq. m and consists of 4 layers of extruded scintillator with WLS fiber readout and using SiPMs . To meet the strict requirements while maintaining a low cost, we designed new front end electronics that is simple, relatively inexpensive in small...
Nicolas Dumont Dayot
(Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))
01/10/2015, 09:50
Systems
Oral
For the Phase-I luminosity upgrade of the LHC, a higher granularity trigger readout of the ATLAS LAr Calorimeters is foreseen in order to enhance the trigger feature extraction and background rejection. The new readout system digitizes the detector signals, grouped into 34000 so-called Super Cells, with 12 bit precision at 40 MHz and transfers the data on optical links to the digital...
Andrew James Whitbeck
(Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))
01/10/2015, 10:15
Systems
Oral
The Phase 1 Upgrade of the CMS Forward Calorimeter requires the installation of custom and commercial electronics components into the CMS cavern where they are exposed to ionizing and hadronic radiation. We present the results of qualification tests on the most recent FPGAs from Microsemi (modified Igloo2 devices) and the QIE10 ASIC. The operation of the Igloo2 optical data link is...
Vito Palladino
(CERN)
01/10/2015, 11:10
Systems
Oral
The NA62 main spectrometer consists of ~7000 straw tubes operating in vacuum. The front-end electronics is directly mounted on the detector. The front-end board provides the amplification, shaping, discrimination and time measurement of the analog signals from 16 channels. After digitization the data is sent to a VME 9U read-out board. The data, once matched with the trigger, is sent to the...
Cenk Yildiz
(University of California Irvine (US))
01/10/2015, 11:35
Systems
Oral
The ATLAS muon Cathode Strip Chamber (CSC) backend readout system has been upgrade
during the LHC 2013-2015 shutdown to be able to handle the higher Level-1 trigger
rate of 100 kHz and the higher occupancy at Run 2 luminosity. The main features and performance of the new readout system is presented.
Alvaro Navarro Tobar
(Centro de Investigaciones Energ. Medioambientales y Tecn. - (ES)
01/10/2015, 12:00
Systems
Oral
The Sector Collector relocation is the first stage of the upgrade program for the Drift Tubes subdetector of the CMS experiment. It was accomplished during Long Shutdown 2013-2014, and consisted in the relocation of the second-level trigger and readout electronics from the experimental to the service cavern, relieving the environmental constraints and improving accessibility for maintenance...
Dominik Steffen
(Technische Universitaet Muenchen (DE))
01/10/2015, 14:50
Systems
Oral
COMPASS is a fixed-target experiment at the SPS at CERN dedicated to the study of hadron structure and spectroscopy. Since 2014, a hardware event builder consisting of nine custom designed FPGA-cards replaced the previous online computers increasing compactness and scalability of the DAQ. By buffering data, the system exploits the spill structure of the SPS averaging the maximum on-spill data...
Andrea Borga
(Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL))
01/10/2015, 15:15
Systems
Oral
For new detector and trigger systems to be installed in the ATLAS experiment after LHC Run 2 a new approach will be followed for front-end electronics interfacing. The FELIX (Front-End Link eXchange) system will interface to links connecting to front-end detector and trigger electronics instead of the RODs (ReadOut Drivers) currently used. FELIX will function as a gateway to a commodity...
Pierre Barrillon
(Laboratoire de l'Accelerateur Lineaire (FR))
01/10/2015, 15:40
Systems
Oral
The 24th of August 2014, the EUSO-BALLOON instrument went for a night flight for several hours, 40 km above Timmins (Canada) balloon launching site, concretizing the hard work of an important part of the JEM-EUSO collaboration started 3 years before. This instrument consists of a telescope made of two lenses and a complex electronic chain divided in two mains sub-systems: the PDM (photo...
Frederic Rethore
(Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))
01/10/2015, 16:30
Systems
Oral
The upgrade of the LHCb experiment at CERN will implement a trigger-less readout system in which all the data are transported to the computing farm over 12000 optical links without hardware filtering. The event building and event selection is entirely operated in the farm.
Another originality of the system is that data from the detector arrive directly in computers through a specially...
Jubin Mitra
(Department of Atomic Energy (IN)),
Shuaib Ahmad Khan
(Department of Atomic Energy (IN))
01/10/2015, 16:55
Systems
Oral
To cope up with the increasing luminosity of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, the ALICE experiment is planning for a major upgrade of the detectors, which is at present foreseen to start in 2018. The high interaction rate and the large event size results in an experimental data flow traffic of about 1 TB/s from the detectors to the on-line computing system. A dedicated Common Readout...
Stefan Ludwig Haas
(CERN)
01/10/2015, 17:20
Systems
Oral
The MicroTCA (MTCA) and AdvancedTCA (ATCA) industry standards have been selected as the platform for many of the current and planned upgrades of the off-detector electronic systems of two of the LHC experiments at CERN. We present a status update from an ongoing project to evaluate commercial MTCA and ATCA components with particular emphasis on infrastructure equipment such as shelves and...
Jan Troska
(CERN)
01/10/2015, 17:45
Systems
Oral
The CMS Experiment is in the process of upgrading several of its detector systems. Adding more individual detector components brings the need to test and commission those components separately from existing ones so as not to compromise physics data-taking. The CMS Trigger, Timing and Control (TTC) system had reached the limit of the number of partitions that could be supported. A new Timing...
