Deployment and Use of the ATLAS DAQ in the Combined Test Beam

Author

Gadomski, S. ; Abolins, M. ; Alexandrov, I. ; Amorim, A. ; Padilla-Aranda, C. ; Badescu, E. ; Barros, N. ; Beck, H.P. ; Blair, R. ; Burckhart-Chromek, D. ; Caprini, M. ; Ciobotaru, M. ; Conde-Muino, P. ; Corso-Radu, A. ; Di Girolamo, B. ; Diaz-Gomez, M. ;

Author_Institution

Lab. for High Energy Phys., Bern Univ.

Volume

53

Issue

4

fYear

2006

Firstpage

2156

Lastpage

2161

Abstract

The ATLAS collaboration at CERN operated a combined test beam (CTB) from May until November 2004. The prototype of ATLAS data acquisition system (DAQ) was used to integrate other subsystems into a common CTB setup. Data were collected synchronously from all the ATLAS detectors, which represented nine different detector technologies. Electronics and software of the first level trigger were used to trigger the setup. Event selection algorithms of the high level trigger were integrated with the system and were tested with real detector data. The possibility to operate a remote Event Filter farm synchronized with the ATLAS Trigger and Data Acquisition System (TDAQ) was also tested. Event data, as well as detector conditions data, were made available for offline analysis

Keywords

data acquisition; high energy physics instrumentation computing; nuclear electronics; position sensitive particle detectors; prototypes; trigger circuits; ATLAS DAQ; ATLAS detectors; CERN; combined test beam; data acquisition system; detector conditions data; detector prototype; event data; event selection algorithms; first level trigger electronics; first level trigger software; offline analysis; remote event filter farm; trigger acquisition system; Astronomy; Collaboration; Data acquisition; Detectors; Event detection; Laboratories; Nuclear electronics; Nuclear physics; Prototypes; System testing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9499

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TNS.2006.878290

Filename

1684080