Speaker
Mr
Sebastian Neubert
(Technical University Munich)
Description
PANDA is a universal detector system, which is being designed in the scope of the
FAIR-Project at Darmstadt, Germany and is dedicated to high precision measurements of
hadronic systems in the charm quark mass region. At the HESR storage ring a beam of
antiprotons will interact with internal targets to achieve the desired luminosity of
2x10^32cm^-2s^-1. The experiment is designed for event rates of up to 2x10^7s^-1. To
cope with such high rates a new concept of data acquisition will be employed: the
triggerless continuous sampling DAQ. Currently it is being investigated if a time
projection chamber (TPC) will fulfill the requirements of the central tracking device
and consequently what role it will have in the final design of the detector. The
proposed TPC would have an expected raw data rate of up to 400 GB/s. Extensive online
data processing is needed for data reduction and flexible online event selection. Our
goal is to reach a compression factor of the raw data rate of at least 10 by
exploiting the known data topology through feature extraction algorithms such as
tracklet reconstruction or hit train compression. The full reconstruction of events
on the fly is a key technology for the operation of a TPC in continous mode. This
talk describes the conceptual design of the online reconstruction for this detector.
Results of prototype algorithms and simulations will be shown.
Primary author
Mr
Sebastian Neubert
(Technical University Munich)
Co-authors
Dr
Bernhard Ketzer
(Technical University Munich)
Mr
Igor Konorov
(Technical University Munich)
Dr
Lars Schmitt
(Technical University Munich)
Mr
Quirin Weitzel
(Technical University Munich)
Prof.
Stephan Paul
(Technical University Munich)
