Zhiguo Ding
(University of Science and Technology of China, Department of morden physics)
07/06/2016, 15:00
Emerging Technologies / Feedback on Experience
Poster presentation
The 4πβ − γ coincidence efficiency extrapolation method is the most popular for the absolute determination of radioactivity. In this paper, a calculation software based on pipe-and-filter architecture for the 4πβ-γ digital coincidence counting (DCC) equipment is presented. The equipment has ability to handle four 500MSPS 8bit resolution channels and four 62.5MSPS 16 bits resolution channels...
Christos Gentsos
(Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki (GR))
07/06/2016, 15:00
Real Time Simulation
Poster presentation
The Fast Tracker (FTK) executes real time tracking for online event selection in the ATLAS experiment. Data processing speed is achieved by exploiting pipelining and parallel processing. Track reconstruction is executed on a 2-level pipelined architecture. The first stage, implemented on custom ASICs called Associative Memory (AM) Chips, performs Track Candidate (road) recognition in low...
Francisco Javier Egea Canet
07/06/2016, 15:00
Real Time System Architectures and Intelligent Signal Processing
Poster presentation
Modern nuclear physics experiments involving fusion-evaporation reactions frequently require the detection of particles (alphas,protons,neutrons) which provide crucial information about the nucleus under study. Some reaction channels involving neutron detection have very low-cross section and require the use of large scintillator arrays which are also sensitive to the gamma-rays, hence,...
Zbigniew Szadkowski
(University of Lodz)
07/06/2016, 15:00
Real Time System Architectures and Intelligent Signal Processing
Poster presentation
Radio detector of the ultra high-energy cosmic rays in the Pierre Auger Observatory operates in the frequency range 30-80 MHz, which is often contaminated by the human-made RFI. Several filters were used to suppress the RFI: based on the FFT, IIR notch filter and FIR filter based on the liner prediction. It refreshes the FIR coefficients calculating either in the external ARM processor,...
Jie Zhang
(Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences),
Jingzi Gu
(Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
07/06/2016, 15:00
Poster presentation
HEPS-BPIX is a pixel detector designed for the High Energy Photon Source (HEPS) in China. As a hybrid pixel detector, it consists of a silicon sensor and a readout chip which is bump-bonded to the sensor with Indium. The detector contains an array of 104×72 pixels while each pixel measures 150 μm×150 μm. Each pixel of the readout chip comprises a preamplifier, a discriminator and a counter....
Dr
Yong Wang
(Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
07/06/2016, 15:00
Real Time System Architectures and Intelligent Signal Processing
Poster presentation
A hybrid analog-digital integrator has been developed to be compatible with the long pulse plasma discharges on Experimental Advanced Superconductor Tokamak (EAST), in which a pair of analog integrators are used to integrate the input signal by turns to reduce the error caused by the leakage of integration capacitors, and the outputs of two integrators can be combined to construct a continuous...
Philippe Gris
(Univ. Blaise Pascal Clermont-Fe. II (FR))
07/06/2016, 15:00
Poster presentation
The LASER calibration system of the ATLAS hadron calorimeter aims at monitoring the ~10000 PMTs of the TileCal. The
LASER light injected in the PMTs is measured by sets of photodiodes at several stages of the optical path. The
monitoring of the photodiodes is performed by a redundant internal calibration system using an LED, a radioactive
source, and a charge injection system.
The LASer...
Luigi Casu
(Universita e INFN (IT))
07/06/2016, 15:00
Poster presentation
Time measurements play a crucial role in trigger and data acquisition systems (TDAQ) of High Energy Physics (HEP) experiments, where calibration, synchronization between signals and phase-measurements accuracy are often required.
Although the various elements of a time measurement system are typically designed using a classical mixed-signal approach, state-of-art research is also focusing on...
Zbigniew Szadkowski
(University of Lodz)
07/06/2016, 15:00
Real Time System Architectures and Intelligent Signal Processing
Poster presentation
Radio stations can observe radio signals caused by coherent emissions due to geomagnetic radiation and charge excess processes. Auger Engineering Radio Array (AERA) observes the frequency band from 30 to 80 MHz. This range is highly contaminated by human-made RFI. In order to improve the signal to noise ratio RFI filters are used in AERA to suppress this contamination.
The AERA uses the...
Mr
Guangyuan YUAN
(State Key Laboratory of Particle Detection and Electronics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China;Department of Modern Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China), Mr
Siyuan MA
(State Key Laboratory of Particle Detection and Electronics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China;Department of Modern Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China)
07/06/2016, 15:00
Emerging Technologies / Feedback on Experience
Poster presentation
The requirement of a large number of electronics channels has become an issue to the further applications of Micro-pattern Gas Detectors (MPGDs), and poses a big challenge for the integration, power consumption, cooling and cost. Induced position encoding readout technique provides an attractive way to significantly reduce the number of readout channels. In this paper, we present an extensible...
Dr
Davide Pedretti
(Universita e INFN, Legnaro (IT)), Dr
Stefano Pavinato
(INFN - National Institute for Nuclear Physics)
07/06/2016, 15:00
Real Time System Architectures and Intelligent Signal Processing
Poster presentation
SPES is a second generation ISOL radioactive ion beam facility in construction at the INFN National Laboratories of Legnaro (LNL). Its distributed control system embeds custom control in almost all instruments or cluster of homogeneous devices. Nevertheless, standardization is an important issue that concerns modularity and long term maintainability for a facility that has a life span of at...
Mr
Chenfei Yang
(1. State Key Laboratory of Particle Detection and Electronics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China; 2. Department of Modern Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China)
07/06/2016, 15:00
Real Time System Architectures and Intelligent Signal Processing
Poster presentation
A pulse shape discrimination (PSD) method based on linear neural network is proposed for separation of α- and γ-induced events in BaF2 crystal.
An artificial linear neural network was designed to identify α- and γ- induced events in BaF2 crystal with the inputs of several pulse information, including pulse pedestal, amplitude, gradient, long/short amplitude integral, and the amount of the...
An artificial linear neural network was designed to identify α- and γ- induced events in BaF2 crystal with the inputs of several pulse information, including pulse pedestal, amplitude, gradient, long/short amplitude integral, and the amount of the...
Tautvydas Jeronimas Maceina
(Consorzio RFX)
07/06/2016, 15:00
Emerging Technologies / Feedback on Experience
Poster presentation
The recent advance of GPU technology is offering great prospects in computation. Originally developed for graphical applications, general purpose GPUs (GPGPU) have been extensively used for massively parallel computation. The penetration of the GPU technology in real-time control has been somewhat limited due to two main reasons:
1) Control algorithms for real-time applications involving...
Dr
Dariusz Makowski
(Lodz University of Technology, Department of Microelectronics and Computer Science)
07/06/2016, 15:00
New Standards
Poster presentation
The Low Level Radio Frequency (LLRF) control system of the European X-Ray Free Electron Laser is designed using MicroTCA.4 standard. The real-time control system is composed of a few Advanced Mezzanine Cards (AMCs): timing, digitizer, digital controller and vector modulator modules.
The DAMC-TCK7 digital controller module was developed as a high-performance low-latency data processing...
Mr
Pedro Lourenço
(Instituto de Plasmas e Fusão Nuclear)
07/06/2016, 15:00
Control, Monitoring,Test and Real Time Diagnostics Systems
Poster presentation
The IST-BPlasma device is a compact setup used for the execution of plasma physics experimental protocols. It creates a low temperature plasma resultant from the interaction of an electron beam with noble gases gas at low pressure and is equipped with Radio-Frequency (RF) based diagnostics, namely (i) resonant cavity and (ii) electrostatic probes. These allow to measure the plasma density and...
Wolfgang Kühn
(JLU Giessen)
07/06/2016, 15:00
Real Time System Architectures and Intelligent Signal Processing
Poster presentation
We present the first FPGA-based version of a Prototype Trigger-less Data Acquisition (PTDAQ) for the PANDA experiment. The PANDA experiment will operate in an trigger-less environment of 20 MHz interaction rate, with a peak rate up to 50 MHz, and a design luminosity of 2 x 10³² cm⁻¹ s⁻¹. The event size will be about a few KB, producing data rates of several hundreds of GB/s. A reduction of up...
Adam Tadeusz Wegrzynek
(Warsaw University of Technology (PL))
07/06/2016, 15:00
Fast Data Transfer Links and Networks
Poster presentation
ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment) is the heavy-ion detector designed to study the physics of strongly interacting matter and the quark-gluon plasma at the CERN LHC (Large Hadron Collider).
ALICE has been successfully collecting physics data of Run 2 since spring 2015. In parallel, preparations for a major upgrade, called O2 (Online-Offline) and scheduled for the Long Shutdown 2 in...
Pierluigi Luciano
(UNICLAM and INFN)
07/06/2016, 15:00
Real Time System Architectures and Intelligent Signal Processing
Poster presentation
We present an innovative and high performance embedded system for real-time pattern matching. The design uses Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) and the powerful Associative Memory chip (an ASIC) to achieve real-time performance. The system works as a contour identifier able to extract the salient features of an image. It is based on the principles of cognitive image processing, which...
Kristian Hahn
(Northwestern University (US))
07/06/2016, 15:00
Poster presentation
The CMS detector will be upgraded in preparation for the high luminosity operation of the Large Hadron Collider, which is due to start in 2025. The CMS collaboration plans to reconstruct the trajectories of charged particles produced in the LHC collisions, using advanced electronics processing data from its tracking detector. The resulting tracks must be available within a few microseconds,...
Mr
Harald Kleines
(Forschungszentrum Juelich)
07/06/2016, 15:00
New Standards
Poster presentation
The Micro Vertex Detector (MVD) will be used as the central tracking detector in the PANDA (AntiProton Annihilation at Darmstadt) detector system which is under development for the future accelerator facility FAIR in Darmstadt, Germany. The design of the MVD is based on silicon strip detectors at the outer layer and on silicon pixel detectors at the inner layers. Data from the readout ASICs in...
Mr
Leonardo Pigatto
(Consorzio RFX, Corso Stati Uniti, 4 35127, Padova, Italy)
07/06/2016, 15:00
Real Time Simulation
Poster presentation
Magnetic confinement of fusion relevant plasmas is the target of many devices that are nowadays working towards the achievement of electricity from controlled fusion reactions. Such plasmas constitute a particularly harsh nuclear environment in which violent instabilities can arise [1], causing confinement losses and possible damage to structural materials. Effective control of such...
Matthias Drochner
(FZJ)
07/06/2016, 15:00
Real Time System Architectures and Intelligent Signal Processing
Poster presentation
On the "KWS2" small angle scattering instrument at the "FRM-2" neutron
source at Garching, Germany a new 3He neutron detector was installed
and commissioned in 2015. It is built of 18 "8-pack" modules from
GE Power / Reuter-Stokes. Each of these modules has its own data
acquisition and slow control processor, using only Gigabit Ethernet as
connection to the outside world.
We show how...
Zbigniew Szadkowski
(University of Lodz)
07/06/2016, 15:00
Poster presentation
The paper is presenting the first results from the trigger based on the Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) operating in the new Front-End Boards with Cyclone V E FPGA deployed in 7 test surface detectors in the Pierre Auger Engineering Array.
The patterns of the ADC traces generated by very inclined showers were obtained
from the Auger database and from the CORSIKA simulation package...
Mr
Michal Cieslak
(Lancaster University)
07/06/2016, 15:00
Poster presentation
Pulse Shape Discrimination (PSD) algorithms can reliably separate neutrons and gamma-ray photons interacting in a scintillation detector. When implemented in the digital domain, the PSD algorithms allow real-time discrimination of neutron sources from gamma sources. This paper presents a design of a readout electronics system to retrieve data from a multi-anode photomultiplier tube (MAPMT) for...
Cruz De Jesus Garcia Chavez
(Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe Univ. (DE))
07/06/2016, 15:00
Real Time System Architectures and Intelligent Signal Processing
Poster presentation
The feature extraction is a data pre-processing stage of the proposed
data-acquisition chain (DAQ) for the CBM-TRD experiment at FAIR,
aiming to deliver event-filtered and bandwidth-reduced data to the
First Level Event Selection (FLES). A data rate of about 1TB/s and a
high event rate of approximately 100 kHz is expected for the final
experiment. The TRD detector of the CBM...
Davide Falchieri
(Universita e INFN, Bologna (IT))
07/06/2016, 15:00
Poster presentation
During CERN LHC Long Shutdown 2 foreseen in 2018-2019, the ALICE Time of Flight (TOF) readout electronics is going to be upgraded in order to be able to cope with the target trigger rate of 200 KHz with proton-proton collisions and 50 KHz with lead-lead collisions. For this reason, the Digital Readout Module (DRM) board is currently being redesigned with improved features and more up to date...
Mr
Jinxin Liu
(University of Science and Technology of China)
07/06/2016, 15:00
Real Time System Architectures and Intelligent Signal Processing
Poster presentation
Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility (SSRF) is one of the third-generation high-beam current (3.5GeV) synchrotron light sources. In the storage ring of SSRF, multi-bunch instabilities would increase beam emittance and energy spread, which degrade beam quality and even cause beam loss. To address the above issues, a Transverse Feedback System is indispensable for SSRF, in which the key...
Nicola Pozzobon
(Universita e INFN, Padova (IT))
07/06/2016, 15:00
Upgrades
Poster presentation
The operation of the CMS Drift Tubes muon detectors at the High Luminosity LHC will be possible only with an upgrade of the current readout and trigger electronics, which are based on very old technology and exposed to direct radiation, hence particularly sensitive to ageing. The current Trigger Primitives Generator (TPG) is designed around a synchronous device measuring at once the muon track...
Mr
Chunjie Wang
(IHEP Beijing), Prof.
Zhen-An Liu
(IHEP Beijing)
07/06/2016, 15:00
Upgrades
Poster presentation
The CMS trigger system after phase I upgrade will be working with a 10 Gbps line rate asynchronously between modules, but the data output rate from the Muon Endcap RPC link board is 1.6 Gbps, so concentration from 1.6 Gbps to 10Gbps with fanout function is needed. A so-called Concentration Pre-Processing and Fan-out(CPPF) module has been designed for this purpose with processing and fan-out...
Mr
hong su
(Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
07/06/2016, 15:00
Front End Electronics and Fast Digitizers
Poster presentation
A new adaptive and fast readout system for the front-end signal of wire scanner is designed, which is used to measure the beam profile and emittance. This system is capable of handling constantly changing current signal, the case rate of which can reach up to 1000 counts/s and the input range is from 1 nA to 1 mA. The development of this new adaptive and fast front-end readout system which is...
Mr
Cong Ma
(University of Science and Technology of China (USTC))
07/06/2016, 15:00
Real Time System Architectures and Intelligent Signal Processing
Poster presentation
The Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO) is proposed to be built at an altitude of more than 4000 m, which aims for a very high energy gamma source survey above 30 TeV. The Water Cherenkov Detector Array (WCDA) is one of the major components in LHAASO. The WCDA electronics are responsible for the readout of 3600 Photomultiplier Tubes (PMTs), and a total of 400 Front End...
Kai Chen
(Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))
07/06/2016, 15:00
Poster presentation
The high-luminosity phase of the Large Hadron Collider will provide 5-7 times greater instantaneous and total luminosities than assumed in the original design of the ATLAS Liquid Argon Calorimeters and their readout system. An improved trigger system with a higher acceptance rate of 1 MHz and a longer latency of up to 60 micro-seconds together with a better radiation tolerance require an...
Mr
Himanshu Tyagi
(ITER-India,IPR)
07/06/2016, 15:00
Control, Monitoring,Test and Real Time Diagnostics Systems
Poster presentation
The Indian Test Facility (INTF) is a negative Hydrogen ion based 100kV, 60A, 5Hz modulated NBI system having 3s ON/20sOFF duty cycle. Prime objective of the facility is to characterize ITER Diagnostic Neutral Beam (DNB) with full specifications, prior to shipment and installation in ITER.
The automated and safe operation of the system will require a reliable and rugged instrumentation and...
Xinzhe Wang
07/06/2016, 15:00
Data Acquisition
Poster presentation
A Front-end readout electronics has been developed for CsI (Tl) Gamma Array with 1024 large area avalanche photodiodes (APDs) at External Target Facility (ETF) of Cooler Storage Ring (CSR) in the Institute of Modern Physics. The full read-out electronics consists of 32 identical analog boards, 8 Acquisition and Control boards (ACBs) and a PXI chassis. In the analog board Application Specific...
Dr
CHANG JAE LEE
(KEPCO E&C)
07/06/2016, 15:00
Control, Monitoring,Test and Real Time Diagnostics Systems
Poster presentation
Studies on setpoint determination methodologies for the plant protection system (PPS) for a nuclear power plant have been actively performed. The objective of determining a trip setpoint for the PPS is to meet the requirement of the analytical limit assumed in performing the safety analyses for a nuclear power plant.
However, the PPS instrumentation channel which contains a transmitter, a...
Mr
ratnakar kumar yadav
(ITER-India)
07/06/2016, 15:00
Control, Monitoring,Test and Real Time Diagnostics Systems
Poster presentation
Twin Source - An Inductively coupled two RF driver based 180 kW, 1 MHz negative ion source experimental is setup at IPR, Gandhinagar with the objective of understanding the physics and technology of multi-driver coupling. The data acquisition and control system (DACS) for TS experiments involves development of control core program, Control GUI, acquisition program and front end signal...
Luigi Calligaris
(STFC - Rutherford Appleton Lab. (GB))
07/06/2016, 15:00
Upgrades
Poster presentation
The CMS collaboration is preparing a major upgrade of its detector, so it can operate during the high luminosity run of the LHC (HL-LHC) from 2025. The upgraded tracker electronics will reconstruct the trajectories of charged particles within a latency of a few microseconds, so that they can be used by the level-1 trigger. An emulation framework, CIDAF, has been developed to provide a...
Mélanie Bernard
07/06/2016, 15:00
Real Time System Architectures and Intelligent Signal Processing
Poster presentation
Single Photon Emission Tomography (SPECT) is mainly limited by the trade-off between spatial resolution and sensitivity. In this context, CdZnTe detectors enable higher spatial resolution compared to previously used scintillators, using sub-pixel positioning and DOI. Consequently, the size of the numerical detector representation increases and SPECT imaging tends to face some of PET imaging...
Balazs Voneki
(CERN),
Sebastien Valat
(CERN)
07/06/2016, 15:00
Poster presentation
The LHCb experiment is preparing a major upgrade in 2020 resulting in a need for a high-end network for a data acquisition system. Its capacity will grow up to a target speed of 40 Tb/s, aggregated by 500 nodes. This can only be achieved reasonably by using links capable of coping with 100 Gigabit/s line rates. The constantly increasing need for more and more bandwidth has initiated the...
Simaolhoda Baymani
(CERN)
07/06/2016, 15:00
Emerging Technologies / Feedback on Experience
Poster presentation
RapidIO (http://rapidio.org/) technology is a packet-switched high-performance fabric, which has been under active development since 1997. The technology is used in all 4G/LTE basestations worldwide. RapidIO is often used in embedded systems that require high reliability, low latency and deterministic operations in a heterogeneous environment. RapidIO has several offloading features in...
Prof.
Koansik Joo
(myongji university)
07/06/2016, 15:00
Real Time Safety and Security
Poster presentation
In this study, an optical fiber detector was constructed by using a YSO scintillator, optical fiber, and Silicon-PhotoMultiplier(SiPM) and used an MCU module and MCA for signal processing and algorithm development.. The single crystal size of the scintillator was set to 3(diameter)mm × 20 mm after simulating the absorption rate of gamma rays in the scintillator by using the MCNPX code. The...
Tautvydas Maceina
(Università di Padova)
07/06/2016, 15:00
Emerging Technologies / Feedback on Experience
Poster presentation
Integral formulations can be more convenient than 3D finite-element-method (FEM) codes for the numerical solution of quasi-magnetostatic (eddy currents) problems in large and complex domains, consisting of many interconnected parts or components (e.g. magnetic confinement fusion devices), since they do not require the discretisation of non-conducting subdomains. A good accuracy is often...
Tomasz KOZAK
(Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron)
07/06/2016, 15:00
Control, Monitoring,Test and Real Time Diagnostics Systems
Poster presentation
Bunch charge variations in Free Electron Lasers such as the Free Electron Lasers at Hamburg (FLASH) or the European X-Ray Free Electron Laser (E-XFEL) impacts the longitudinal phase space distribution of the electrons resulting in different bunch peak currents, pulse duration and pulse shapes. The electron bunches are generated by short ultraviolet laser pulses impinging onto a photocathode...
Mr
David Freese
(Stanford University Department of Electrical Engineering)
07/06/2016, 15:00
Poster presentation
Title:
Feasibility of software-based real-time calibration of multi-gigabit PET data
Abstract:
Positron Emission Tomography (PET) imaging of the breast has the potential to play a role in the detection, diagnosis, staging, guiding surgical resection, and monitoring of therapy for breast cancer. Of these potential roles, producing images at near or real-time is especially important to guide...
Mr
Qi Wang
(State Key Laboratory of Particle Detection and Electronics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 230026, China ;Department of Modern Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 230026, China)
07/06/2016, 15:00
Poster presentation
In CSNS-WNS (White Neutron Sources at China Spallation Neutron Source), BaF2 (Barium fluoride) detector array is designed for neutron capture cross-section measurements with high accuracy and efficiency. Once proton beam collides with the target specimen, neutron will be excited and flight from the target to BaF2 array. The time of flight corresponds to the energy of the neutron. To identify...
Mr
Xiaoguang Zhang
(State Key Laboratory of Particle Detection and Electronics and Department of Modern Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, P.R.China)
07/06/2016, 15:00
Emerging Technologies / Feedback on Experience
Poster presentation
Random numbers are widely used in many fields such as statistical analysis, numerical simulation and cryptography. However, most existing random number generators cannot directly output ideal random bits without post-processing, where complicated mathematical operation is usually needed and the speed is severely limited. With the development of random number generation, the speed of raw random...
Dr
Yutie Liang
(Giessen University)
07/06/2016, 15:00
Real Time System Architectures and Intelligent Signal Processing
Poster presentation
An FPGA based online tracking algorithm for helix track reconstruction in a solenoidal field, developed for the PANDA spectrometer, is described. Employing the Straw Tube Tracker detector with 4636 straw tubes, the algorithm includes a complex track finder, and a track fitter adopting Xilinx IP cores. Implemented in VHDL, the algorithm is tested on a Vertex4 FX60 FPGA chip with different...
Dariusz Makowski
(Technical University of Lodz, Department of Microelectronics and Computer Science)
07/06/2016, 15:00
Real Time System Architectures and Intelligent Signal Processing
Poster presentation
On a modern 3D movie set around 6 terabytes of data are captured during each hour of recording (assuming: 4K resolution, 25 FPS, 10 bit Y’UV 4:4:4 data). The costs of single day of shooting are tremendous. These include wages of a large number of skilled technicians, lending various types of equipment, supplying hundreds kilowatts of electrical power, financing the actors and many others. It...
Mei YE
(IHEP)
07/06/2016, 15:00
Control, Monitoring,Test and Real Time Diagnostics Systems
Poster presentation
The detector control system (DCS) of Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment was developed to support the running neutrino-oscillation experiment. The experiment has been taking data for almost 3 years and making steady progress. And the first results have already been released. The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) is the second phase of the reactor neutrino experiment. The...
Dr
Jian Wang
(Univ. of Sci. & Tech. of China)
07/06/2016, 15:00
Real Time System Architectures and Intelligent Signal Processing
Poster presentation
Many scientific devices have been used in Antarctic, and some parts of the device can not run at the low temperature as low as -60 degree such as a mechanical shutter in a scientific CCD camera. In such a condition, a heating system should be designed to satisfy the temperature requirement. For a CCD camera, we designed a heater system for the shutter including a heat-hold shutter house,...
Dr
Jie Zhang
(Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
07/06/2016, 15:00
Fast Data Transfer Links and Networks
Poster presentation
Ethernet has been widely used and implemented in a variety of commercial products. As their high ratio of performance to cost, many backend systems have been designed as distributed structure using Ethernet. Transmission Control Protocol and Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) is also a standard and well known protocol implemented in all mainstream operating systems, it provides a reliable and in-order...
Kun Hu
(University of Science and Technology of China)
07/06/2016, 15:00
Fast Data Transfer Links and Networks
Poster presentation
The ATLAS detector will be upgraded in 2018. The main focus of the Phase-I ATLAS upgrade is on the Level-1 trigger, replacing the present muon small wheel (SW) with the "new small wheel(NSW)", which consists of small thin gap chamber(sTGC) and micromegas (MM). A versatile application-specific integrated circuit(ASIC), the VMM chip, has been developed to read out the signals of the sTGC and MM....
Mr
Arild velure
(IFT, University of Bergen, Norway), Dr
Ganesh J. Tambave
(IFT, University of Bergen, Norway)
07/06/2016, 15:00
Poster presentation
The heavy-ion beam of CERN's LHC is expected to be colliding at 50 kHz (present rate ~ few kHz) during Run3 onwards of the ALICE experiment planned to start in 2020. Due to these new high collision rates, the Multi-Wire Proportional Chambers of the present ALICE TPC will be replaced by readout chambers featuring Gas Electron Multiplier (GEM) foils. A continuous readout system will replace the...
Mr
João Fortunato
(Instituto de Plasmas e Fusao Nuclear)
07/06/2016, 15:00
Control, Monitoring,Test and Real Time Diagnostics Systems
Poster presentation
The ITER Electron Cyclotron (EC) System will operate at 170 GHz, aiming at pulse durations of up to 3600 seconds. It is comprised of 24 Gyrotrons and it will be used for plasma breakdown, central heating and current drive applications as well as control of magneto-hydrodynamic instabilities, making it a crucial system for the successful operation of ITER. The Gyrotrons will be powered by 12...
Mariano Ruiz
(Universidad Politecnica de Madrid)
07/06/2016, 15:00
Poster presentation
Interlocks are the instrumented functions of ITER that protect the machine against failures of the plant system components or incorrect machine operation. Regarding I&C, the Interlock Control System (ICS) ensures that no failure of the conventional ITER controls can lead to a serious damage of the machine integrity or availability. The ICS is in charge of the supervision and control of all the...
Geogin Varghese
(DESY, Hamburg)
07/06/2016, 15:00
Emerging Technologies / Feedback on Experience
Poster presentation
Data acquisition over an IP network is convenient for diagnostics, monitoring
and control applications. The ReboT protocol (Register Based Access Over TCP)
extends the MTCA4U deviceaccess framework, letting it access supported hardware
over TCP/IP. Using ReboT, the Python and Matlab bindings provided by the
framework give application developers a convenient way to access hardware...
Nadeem Shehzad
(DESY Hamburg)
07/06/2016, 15:00
Control, Monitoring,Test and Real Time Diagnostics Systems
Poster presentation
Porting complex device servers from one control system to another is often a
major effort due to the strong code coupling of the business logic
to control system data structures.
Together with its partners from the Helmholtz Association and from industry,
DESY is developing a control system adapter as part of the MTCA4U tool kit.
It allows to write
applications in a control system...
Mr
Mateusz Gospodarczyk
(Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata")
07/06/2016, 15:00
Real Time System Architectures and Intelligent Signal Processing
Poster presentation
$\textbf{Introduction}$
In this work we presented a new real-time acquisition system of a two-color interferometer (Figure 1) installed on FTU that calculates, in real-time, the density along 2 fixed SIRIO (off-line density elaboration system) chords: central chord (CH3) at 0.935 m and external chord (CH4) at 1.17 m. sampled at 200 Khz.
The electron density provided by the CO_2 and CO...
Mr
Lukasz Butkowski
(Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron)
07/06/2016, 15:00
Real Time System Architectures and Intelligent Signal Processing
Poster presentation
In the paper we are presenting universal solution for RF and laser cavities regulation including piezo controls based on MTCA.4 electronics. The RF field control electronics consists of RTM for cavity probes sensing and high voltage power source driving, AMC for fast data processing and digital feedback operation. The piezo control system has been setup with high voltage RTM Piezo driver and...
Nadeem Shehzad
(DESY Hamburg)
07/06/2016, 15:00
Emerging Technologies / Feedback on Experience
Poster presentation
The MicroTCA.4 crate standard provides a powerful electronic platform for
digital and analogue signal processing. Besides excellent hardware
modularity,
it is the software reliability and flexibility as well as the easy integration
into existing software infrastructures that will drive the widespread
adoption of the standard.
The DESY MicroTCA.4 User Tool Kit (MTCA4U) is a collection...
Frederic Chateau
(CEA/IRFU,Centre d'etude de Saclay Gif-sur-Yvette (FR))
07/06/2016, 15:00
Emerging Technologies / Feedback on Experience
Poster presentation
Data Acquisition (DAQ) softwares are heavily distributed applications, whether this is for performance reasons or because of the intrinsic spatial repartition of embedded software nodes. They have a strong requirement concerning the coherency of the system state: when a data acquisition run is started, all participating nodes are supposed to be acquiring data, when the system is configuring or...
Mr
Martynas Prokopas
(Fusion-DC / IPFN / ITER Organization)
07/06/2016, 15:00
Fast Data Transfer Links and Networks
Poster presentation
ITER Control System Model (ICM) is a currently developed simulation platform for CODAC, which is a control system responsible for integrating and controlling all plant systems of ITER. ICM is a full-scale implementation of CODAC that follows all hardware and software standards, but does not include any I/O to physical components of ITER. This will serve as an excellent test environment for...
Michele Martinelli
(INFN)
07/06/2016, 15:00
Real Time System Architectures and Intelligent Signal Processing
Poster presentation
NaNet is a modular design of a family of FPGA-based PCIe Network Interface Cards implementing low-latency, real-time data transport between its network channels and the the host CPU and GPU accelerators memories.
The design feature a network stack protocol offloading module that operating in conjunction with a high performance PCIE Gen2/3 X8 core yields a low and predictable communication...
Dr
Davide Pedretti
(INFN - LNL), Dr
Stefano Pavinato
(INFN - LNL)
07/06/2016, 15:00
Real Time System Architectures and Intelligent Signal Processing
Poster presentation
The Low-level Radio Frequency (LLRF) control system for linear accelerator at Legnaro National Laboratories (LNL) of INFN is being upgraded by a new digital Radio Frequency (RF) controller. This controller is critical to keep phase, amplitude and frequency stability of the RF field in Quarter Wave Resonator (QWR) cavities of the linear accelerator. These cavities work in superconducting...
Keith Erickson
(Princeton University)
07/06/2016, 15:00
Real Time Safety and Security
Poster presentation
The National Spherical Torus Experiment Upgrade (NSTXU) at the Princeton Plasma
Physics Laboratory (PPPL) successfully began its first year of operations. NSTXU is a
magnetic fusion device whose major mission is to develop the physics basis for an STbased
Fusion Nuclear Science Facility (FNSF). The STbased FNSF has the promise of achieving the
high neutron fluence needed for reactor...
Joern Adamczewski-Musch
(GSI)
07/06/2016, 15:00
Real Time System Architectures and Intelligent Signal Processing
Poster presentation
The *TRB3* - Trigger Readout Board - features 4 FPGA based TDCs with a total of up to 264 channels and a time precision of 8 ps RMS **[1]**. It was applied for various beam tests and is going to serve as a standard DAQ hardware for *FAIR* detectors, such as *HADES*, *PANDA*, and *CBM*. To achieve the best time precision, however, each TDC channel must be calibrated individually.
First of...
Christian Faerber
(CERN)
07/06/2016, 15:00
Poster presentation
The current LHCb readout system will be upgraded in 2018 to a 'triggerless' readout of
the entire detector at the LHC collision rate of 40 MHz. The corresponding bandwidth from
the detector down to the foreseen dedicated computing farm (event filter farm), which acts
as the trigger, has to be increased by a factor of almost 100 from currently 500 GBit/s up to
40 TBit/s. The event filter farm...
Krzysztof Czuba
(Warsaw University of Technology)
07/06/2016, 15:00
New Standards
Poster presentation
Nowadays monitoring and control systems for linear accelerators require very complex high-precision RF detection and measurements systems that incorporate receivers with multichannel down-converters and low noise LO generation systems. Increasing requirements for speed, bandwidth and latency while maintaining precision reveal limitations of classical RF receivers. Modern advanced technology...
Tony Rohlev
(Sincrotrone Trieste)
07/06/2016, 15:00
New Standards
Poster presentation
The local oscillator and clock generation module generates a low noise local oscillator out of the global reference that is distributed over the accelerator. The module is implemented such that it fits into the rear slots 15 and 14 of a standard MicroTCA.4 crate. In the contribution we present the manufacturing and testing process of 60 units that are being deployed in the European XFEL....
Dr
Grzegorz Korcyl
(Jagiellonian University)
07/06/2016, 15:00
Poster presentation
A complete solution for collecting and processing data from gaseous tracking detectors has been developed. The readout chain consists of front-end modules (FEE) equipped with PASTTREC ASIC chips and Trigger Readout Board v3 (TRBv3) as readout platform, together with control and monitoring mechanisms and data quality assessment software.
PASTTREC chip is an 8-channel, fast amplifier and...
Dr
Dmitri Kotchetkov
(University of Hawaii at Manoa)
07/06/2016, 15:00
Poster presentation
Belle II experiment at SuperKEKB collider opens a new era in beauty physics. To satisfy demands of Belle II improved particle identification, a novel 8192-channel imaging Time of Propagation (iTOP) detector is being built. In iTOP passage of hadrons through quartz panels generates Cerenkov light, which, after multiple reflections, gets collected by 16-channel microchannel plate...
Chris Beltran
(Mayo Clinic)
07/06/2016, 15:00
Real Time Simulation
Poster presentation
Background: In radiation treatments for cancer patients, there is a type of treatment called proton therapy. For these treatments, the first step is to simulate the patient's treatment by acquiring computed tomography (CT) scans of the tumor in the position of treatment and converting those images into material and density maps for creating the best plan of treatment. All anatomical...
Dr
Wei Zheng
(Huazhong University of Science and Technology)
07/06/2016, 15:00
Real Time System Architectures and Intelligent Signal Processing
Poster presentation
The J-TEXT newly deployed three-wave polarimeter-interferometer system provides a better time and spatial resolution of the plasma electronic density than the old HCN interferometer system. The plasma electronic density feedback control system is implemented on the already existing polarimeter-interferometer DAQ system which is based on FlexRIO FPGA. This DAQ system is able to acquire 16...
Mr
Feiran Hu
(Huazhong University of Science and Technology)
07/06/2016, 15:00
Real Time System Architectures and Intelligent Signal Processing
Poster presentation
Tearing Modes (TMs) degrade the performance of tokamak plasma, and can even lead to disruption. Using externally exerted resonant magnetic perturbations (RMP) to suppress tearing mode is a promising and effective way. In order to suppress 2/1 tearing mode, 2/1 rotating RMP applied in given phase region to stabilize magnetic island and accelerate island rotation. The RMP feedback control system...
Mr
Tautvydas Maceina
(Consorzio RFX)
07/06/2016, 15:00
Control, Monitoring,Test and Real Time Diagnostics Systems
Poster presentation
Future fusion devices will depend on high throughtput of data for which present CPU capabilities are reaching their limits and GPUs(Graphical Processing Units) are appearing as very promising candidates for such solutions. Integrating GPUs capabilities with the current real-time software frameworks is a challenge that needs adressing. Tomography is a diagnostics which produces high data...
Vytautas Astromskas
(Lancaster University)
07/06/2016, 15:00
Control, Monitoring,Test and Real Time Diagnostics Systems
Poster presentation
Scintillation detectors offer a single-step detection method for fast neutrons and necessitate real-time acquisition, whereas this is redundant in two-stage thermal detection systems using helium-3 and lithium-6. The affordability of scintillation detectors and the associated fast digital acquisition systems have enabled entirely new measurement setups that can consist of sizeable detector...
Mr
Kevin Pritchard
(NCNR)
07/06/2016, 15:00
Real Time System Architectures and Intelligent Signal Processing
Poster presentation
The NIST Center for Neutron Research is finalizing the design of a novel scintillating neutron detector for its CANDOR neutron scattering instrument. The detectors in the chromatic analyzer must be extremely thin (~1.5 mm) and highly efficient (~90% sensitivity for 3.3 meV neutrons. To that end the detectors consist of 6LiF:ZnS(Ag) plastic scintillator in which wavelength shifting (WLS) fibers...
Dr
Diego Sanz
(GMV)
07/06/2016, 15:00
Poster presentation
Nuclear fusion environments require dependability and safety analysis to ensure a reliable design and a deterministic behaviour. Failure modes identification, risk assessment and mitigation, guarantee that quality control procedures at different architectural levels comply with all the well-defined prerequisites at all the commissioning stages. Therefore, exhaustive analysis based on...
Geogin Varghese
(DESY, Hamburg),
Nadeem Shehzad
07/06/2016, 15:00
Poster presentation
Unit and integration tests are powerful tools to ensure software quality. Writing such tests for
realtime applications accessing hardware requires not only replacing the real hardware with a
virtual implementation in software. Also time must be controlled precisely. For a number of reasons
the time scale in the simulated environment should not be identical to real time: computations
needed for...
Dr
Cichalewski Wojciech
(LUT-DMCS)
07/06/2016, 15:00
Control, Monitoring,Test and Real Time Diagnostics Systems
Poster presentation
Superconducting niobium resonators are used nowadays in various high energy physics facilities as a particles accelerating structures.
Projects which consist of systems that execute single cavity field regulation are operated in continuous (CW) or pulse RF mode. In case of some free electron lasers based on the TESLA technology cavities (like Free electron Laser in Hamburg - FLASH or European...
Mr
Minhao Gu
(IHEP)
07/06/2016, 15:00
Processing Farms
Poster presentation
TaskRouter is a runtime software and framework for distributed computing. It can be used to facilitate the development of online processing system for High Energy Physics experiments. The framework takes the responsibility of data transmission. Users can determine how data being processed and routed on each node by implementing a single callback interface. One or more backup slaves can be...
Dr
Sandra Moretto
(Universita di Padova, Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Via Marzolo 8, 35131 Padova, Italy)
07/06/2016, 15:00
Real Time Safety and Security
Poster presentation
The security of drinking water is increasingly being recognized as a major challenge for municipalities and water utilities. In the event of a contamination, water spreads rapidly before the problem is detected. Consumption of contaminated water can induce major epidemics, disrupt economic life and create mass panic. Significant drinking water contamination events pose a serious threat to...
Ioannis Maznas
(Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki (GR))
07/06/2016, 15:00
Real Time System Architectures and Intelligent Signal Processing
Poster presentation
The Associative Memory (AM) system of the Fast Tracker (FTK) processor has been designed to perform pattern matching using the hit information of the ATLAS experiment silicon tracker. The AM is the heart of FTK and is mainly based on the use of ASICs (AM chips) designed on purpose to execute pattern matching with a high degree of parallelism. It finds track candidates at low resolution that...
Mr
Tianbo Xu
(USTC)
07/06/2016, 15:00
Emerging Technologies / Feedback on Experience
Poster presentation
The objective of this paper is to introduce the coil control module of a feedback system that is designed for the RFP (reversed field pinch) device named KTX (Keda Torus for eXperiment) which is under construction in University of Science and Technology of China. The module is designed for receiving 16 channels of data stream captured by a sample module and using high-speed DAC to give a...
Bernardo Carvalho
(IPFN-IST)
07/06/2016, 15:00
Control, Monitoring,Test and Real Time Diagnostics Systems
Poster presentation
The European Shock-Tube for High Enthalpy Research (ESTHER) is a combustion drive shock-tube that is now being installed at IST/CTN campus where experimental research on plasma radiation of high-speed (>10km/s) shocked flows will be carried to simulate the high pressure and temperature conditions of spacecraft re-entry in different atmosphere conditions. The shock wave will be driven by the...
Ms
Chunchun Li
(ASIPP), Dr
Feng Wang
(ASIPP), Dr
Ping Wang
(ASIPP), Dr
Yong Wang
(ASIPP), Prof.
Zhenshan Ji
(ASIPP), Dr
Zuchao Zhang
(ASIPP)
07/06/2016, 15:00
Fast Data Transfer Links and Networks
Poster presentation
During the smooth running of EAST (Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak), a perfect network management system guaranteeing a robust network is important. In the present complex network infrastructure, it is a daunting task to manage all the devices manually in a network and make sure they are not only up and running but also performing optimally. Therefore, a web-based software system...
Jan de Cuveland
(Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe Univ. (DE))
07/06/2016, 15:00
Poster presentation
The Compressed Baryonic Matter (CBM) experiment is currently under construction at the upcoming FAIR accelerator facility in Darmstadt, Germany. Searching for rare probes, the experiment requires complex event selection criteria at an event rate of up to 10 MHz. To achieve this, all event selection is performed in a large online processing farm of several hundred nodes.
The "First-level...
Mr
Liang Yi
(GDWave)
07/06/2016, 15:00
Emerging Technologies / Feedback on Experience
Poster presentation
In CSNS(China Spallation Neutron Source) neutron instrument, the time of proton hit the target is called T0, which is the start point of TOF of neutron. T0 fanout system will provide the exactly T0 signal for detector electronics. But, this system lack of the information to synchronize the metadata from control system and the neutron data from different detector. In CSNS, a real time...
Cairo Caplan
(CBPF - Brazilian Center for Physics Research (BR))
07/06/2016, 15:00
Poster presentation
In 2019, the LHCb experiment at CERN will undergo a major upgrade where its detectors electronics and entire readout system will be changed to read-out events at the full LHC rate of 40 MHz. In this paper, the new timing, trigger and readout control system for such upgrade is reviewed. Particular attention is given to the distribution of the clock, timing and synchronization information across...
David Calvo
(IFIC)
07/06/2016, 15:00
Upgrades
Poster presentation
The KM3NeT collaboration aims the construction of a multi-km3 high-energy neutrino telescope in the Mediterranean Sea consisting of thousands of glass spheres, each of them containing 31 photomultiplier of small photocathode area. The main elements of a neutrino telescope are, therefore, the sensitive optical detectors, which on the case of KM3NeT is the small photocathode area...
Martin Brückner
(Paul Scherrer Institut)
07/06/2016, 15:00
Real Time System Architectures and Intelligent Signal Processing
Poster presentation
Time-Synchronization to sub-nsec precision between detector subsystems
in large scale astroparticle physics experiments can efficiently be
provided by White-Rabbit (WR), a new ethernet-based
technology for time and frequency transfer.
We discuss principles and advantages of WR for distributed
detector arrays, which allows clock-synchronziation and
trigger-time stamping at sub-nanosecond...
Jian Wang
(Univ. of Sci. & Tech. of China)
Data Acquisition
Poster presentation
With the development of laser technology and high-power lasers, the width of laser pulse is becoming narrower, while the peak power is growing, so that the range of narrow laser application is becoming larger, and now the laser with the pulse width in picosecond level have been applied to the physics, chemistry, biology, quantum communication and other fields for a long time, and playing an...
