The Trigger System of the ICARUS Experiment

Author

Cocco, A.G. ; Pietra, M. Della ; Cicco, A. Di ; Meo, P. Di ; Ereditato, A. ; Fiorillo, G. ; Parascandolo, P. ; Santorelli, R. ; Trattino, P. ; Baboussinov, B. ; Centro, S. ; Pietropaolo, F. ; Ventura, S.

Author_Institution

Dipt. di Sci. Fisiche, Univ. Federico II, Napoli

Volume

53

Issue

4

fYear

2006

Firstpage

2118

Lastpage

2123

Abstract

This paper presents the hardware architecture and the main features of the ICARUS trigger system. The ICARUS detector is a very massive liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber aimed at the study of some of the fundamental issues of astroparticle physics such as solar and atmospheric neutrino interactions, neutrinos following a Supernova explosion, neutrino oscillations with beams from particle accelerators and nucleon decay as predicted by Grand Unification Theories. The main feature of the proposed trigger design is its "segmentation", i.e., the capability to trigger different sectors of the detector on different events allowing for the efficient detection of rare events

Keywords

cosmic ray apparatus; cosmic ray interactions; cosmic ray neutrinos; field programmable gate arrays; grand unified theory; neutrino detection; neutrino oscillations; nuclear electronics; solar cosmic ray particles; supernovae; time projection chambers; trigger circuits; ICARUS detector; Imaging Cosmic And Rare Underground Signal detector; astroparticle physics; atmospheric neutrino interactions; field programmable gate arrays; grand unification theories; hardware architecture; liquid argon time projection chamber; neutrino oscillations; nucleon decay; particle accelerators; solar neutrino interactions; supernova explosion; trigger system; Argon; Cathodes; Detectors; Event detection; Explosions; Hardware; Linear particle accelerator; Neutrino sources; Physics; Wire; Field programmable gate arrays; projection chamber; segmented trigger; supernova; trigger architecture; wire planes;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9499

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TNS.2006.877543

Filename

1684074