BTeV Trigger/DAQ Innovations

Author

Votava, Margaret

Author_Institution

Fermi Nat. Accelerator Lab., Batavia, IL

Volume

53

Issue

4

fYear

2006

Firstpage

2124

Lastpage

2130

Abstract

BTeV was a proposed high-energy physics (HEP) collider experiment designed for the study of B-physics and CP Violation at the Tevatron at Fermilab. BTeV included a large-scale, high-speed trigger and data acquisition (DAQ) system, reading data from the detector at 500 Gbyte/s and writing data to mass storage at a rate of 200 Mbyte/s. The design of the trigger/DAQ system was innovative while remaining realistic in terms of technical feasibility, schedule and cost. This paper will give an overview of the BTeV trigger/DAQ architecture, highlight some of the technical challenges, and describe the approach that was used to solve these challenges

Keywords

CP invariance; data acquisition; high energy physics instrumentation computing; large-scale systems; real-time systems; B-physics; BTeV DAQ architecture; BTeV trigger innovations; CP violation; Fermilab; Tevatron; data acquisition system; high-energy physics collider experiment; high-speed trigger; large-scale systems; real time systems; Costs; Data acquisition; Detectors; Large-scale systems; Measurement standards; Physics; Real time systems; Research and development; Technological innovation; Writing; Data acquisition; large-scale systems; real time systems; triggering;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9499

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TNS.2006.878795

Filename

1684075