Conveners
Systems, planning, installation, commissioning and running experience: Parallel Session B1
- Stephen Quinton (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)
Systems, planning, installation, commissioning and running experience: Parallel Session B1
- Stephen Quinton (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)
Systems, planning, installation, commissioning and running experience: Parallel Session B3
- Ken Wyllie (CERN)
Systems, planning, installation, commissioning and running experience: : Parallel Session B3
- Ken Wyllie (CERN)
Ms
Costanza Cavicchioli
(CERN)
21/09/2010, 09:50
Systems. Planning, installation, commissioning and running experience
Oral
This paper describes the tests and measurements made during the final commissioning of the ALICE Silicon Pixel Detector (SPD) in the first year operation with beams and the optimization of its performance.
The ALICE Silicon Pixel Detector (SPD) is the innermost detector of the ALICE experiment. It consists of two cylindrical layers of pixel detectors, with a total of ~10^7 pixels.
The...
Mr
Paolo De Remigis
(INFN sez. di Torino)
21/09/2010, 10:15
Systems. Planning, installation, commissioning and running experience
Oral
The electronic readout architecture for the silicon pixel sensors of the PANDA Micro Vertex Detector is presented. The pixels will provide timing, position and energy information; moreover, no trigger signal is foreseen, thus leading to a huge amount of data to be transmitted.
The foreseen readout system is based on a custom ASIC development, named ToPiX, which provides time information via a...
Dr
Andreas Sabellek
(KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
21/09/2010, 11:00
Systems. Planning, installation, commissioning and running experience
Oral
The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS-02) will measure primary cosmic ray particle and gamma ray spectra on board the International Space Station. A transition radiation detector (TRD) provides the capability to identify positrons and antiprotons. Space qualified electronics, developed for the TRD, supply its 5248 proportional counter tubes with high voltage and read out all channels running on...
Peter Lichard
(CERN)
21/09/2010, 11:25
Systems. Planning, installation, commissioning and running experience
Oral
The NA62 straw detector, made of 7200 cylindrical straws, is a combined spectrometer and veto detector, which is part of the NA62 experiment at the CERN SPS accelerator. A new version of the full read-out system has been designed and tested on a detector prototype.
A description of this system will be given, as well as test results and plan for future scaling.
Mr
Magnus Mager
(CERN)
21/09/2010, 11:50
Systems. Planning, installation, commissioning and running experience
Oral
A large volume (90 m^3) Time Projection Chamber (TPC) is exploited at the dedicated heavy ion experiment ALICE ("A Large Ion Colliding Experiment") at CERN LHC as the main tracking detector. Equipped with 557,578 active read-out channels distributed over 4,356 Front-End Cards (FECs) and two endplates of 1.8-5 m in diameter, it is designed to track up to 20,000 particles emerging from a single,...
Dr
Jan Buytaert
(CERN)
21/09/2010, 12:15
Systems. Planning, installation, commissioning and running experience
Oral
The LHCb detector and its electronics architecture are optimized for the measurement of b-physics at LHC. The current detector is complete and taking data, and will run at a luminosity of 2 x 10^32 cm-2s-1 to collect around 6fb-1. It is expected to reach this target around 2016 and hence a programme is already underway towards an upgrade of the detector and its electronics systems at this...
Ivo Polak
(Institute of Physics, Prague)
21/09/2010, 12:40
Systems. Planning, installation, commissioning and running experience
Oral
We will report on several versions of the calibration and monitoring system for the SiPM-based scintillator tile hadron calorimeter for the ILC. Built and tested in the beam, the 1 m3 calorimeter prototype, uses 7600 SiPMs embedded in the small scintillator tiles and represents the biggest up-to date detector equipped with these new and perspective photodetectors. SiPMs requires a highly...
Mr
Raymond S. Larsen
(SLAC)
22/09/2010, 09:50
Systems. Planning, installation, commissioning and running experience
Oral
The PICMG xTCA for Physics Specifications Extensions nearing completion are being tested in linac controls applications at DESY (EU XFEL) and at SLAC (ILC R&D, LCLS). New standard crate and module prototypes have been developed through industry partners while a flexible controls architecture is emerging based on a few powerful generic AMC modules backed by application-specific µRTMs. The...
Eric Shearer Hazen
(Department of Physics-Boston University-USA)
22/09/2010, 10:15
Systems. Planning, installation, commissioning and running experience
Oral
We are developing a MicroTCA Carrier Hub card which will provide
timing, control and data acquisition functions in a MicroTCA crate for SLHC readout electronics. This module may be mounted in the primary or redundant MCH slot in a MicroTCA crate, and distributes low-jitter LHC RF clock and encoded fast timing signals to up to 12 AMC modules.
In addition, it receives buffer status signals and...
Mr
Erich Frahm
(University of Minnesota/CMS)
22/09/2010, 11:00
Systems. Planning, installation, commissioning and running experience
Oral
We will discuss our recent experiences designing and testing a prototype MicroTCA card for HCAL Trigger and Readout at SLHC. Our second generation prototype uses a Xilinx XC5VFX70T FPGA to perform the high-speed communication and data processing for up to 8 Readout Module fibers that are streaming data at 4.8 Gbps each. The FPGA also uses two SFP+ optical interfaces at 6.4 Gbps each for data...
Dr
Gregory Michiel Iles
(Imperial College, London)
22/09/2010, 11:25
Systems. Planning, installation, commissioning and running experience
Oral
A demonstrator for a level-1 trigger system has been designed and manufactured. The prototype card uses the AMC double width form factor, 5Gb/s links and a Xilinx XC5VTX150T or XC5VTX240T FPGA. Testing of the prototype is in an advanced stage. Results on the performance will be presented.
Jean-Pierre Cachemiche
(Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille)
22/09/2010, 11:50
Systems. Planning, installation, commissioning and running experience
Oral
The LHCb experiment envisages to upgrade its readout speed from 1 MHz to 40 MHz. The consequence for the electronics is higher densities and an increase of serial links speed. Moreover the architecture must be reviewed to cope with links carrying data, clock and slow control at the same time.
Relying on boards compliant with the xTCA standard, we demonstrate how it is possible to build a...
Mikihiko Nakao
(KEK)
22/09/2010, 12:15
Systems. Planning, installation, commissioning and running experience
Oral
At the Belle II upgrade of the Belle experiment at KEKB, we expect about20 kHz level-1 trigger rate at the design luminosity of 8 times 10^34/cm^2/s. The Belle II data acquisition system is designed to read out the data from the entire detector at up to 30 kHz, with minimum amount of deadtime of several percent that is unavoidable due to hardware constraints. The system consists of subsystems...
Matthias Wittgen
(Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC))
22/09/2010, 12:40
Systems. Planning, installation, commissioning and running experience
Oral
The RCE DAQ system is based on System-On-Chip building Blocks (RCEs) residing in Virtex-4/5 FPGAs and hosted within an ATCA based ecosystem with generic high bandwidth capabilities and 10-GE support. User applications in C++ run on the PowerPC core of the RCEs under the real-time operating system RTEMS.
We will present a new application of these flexible DAQ building blocks targeted for the...
