DocumentCode
1157470
Title
Data acquisition for FNAL E665
Author
Geesaman, D.F. ; Green, M.C. ; Kaufman, S. ; Tentindo-Repond, S. ; Bartlett, J.F. ; Melanson, H.L. ; Petravick, D. ; Michael, D.G. ; McLeod, D. ; Vidal, M.
Author_Institution
Argonne Nat. Lab., IL, USA
Volume
36
Issue
5
fYear
1989
fDate
10/1/1989 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
1528
Lastpage
1533
Abstract
The data acquisition system for FNAL (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory) E665, an experiment to study deep inelastic muon scattering from nucleons and nuclei, is described. The system is built with the FNAL VAXONLINE and RSX DA building blocks. The discussion covers the E665 apparatus, goals for data acquisition, FNAL tools, hardware and software architecture, control and communications, data structures, monitoring and performance limitations
Keywords
data acquisition; nuclear electronics; physics computing; E665; FNAL; FNAL VAXONLINE; Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory; RSX DA building blocks; data acquisition system; data structures; deep inelastic muon scattering; hardware; monitoring; performance limitations; software architecture; Counting circuits; Data acquisition; Image analysis; Laboratories; Magnetic analysis; Magnets; Mesons; Monitoring; Particle beams; Particle scattering;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
0018-9499
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/23.41094
Filename
41094
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