Title :
The BaBar trigger, readout and event gathering system
Author_Institution :
Blackett Lab., Imperial Coll. of Sci., Technol. & Med., London, UK
fDate :
8/1/1998 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
This paper describes the trigger, readout and event gathering system being built for the BaBar experiment at SLAC. It describes the hardware platform through which the data passes and the software tasks running on many processors to guide the data through the platform and collect them together
Keywords :
data acquisition; data flow computing; high energy physics instrumentation computing; multiprocessing systems; nuclear electronics; trigger circuits; BaBar experiment; BaBar trigger readout and event gathering system; hardware platform; software tasks; Clocks; Control systems; Data acquisition; Detectors; Electron beams; Fabrics; Hardware; Laboratories; Switches; Timing;
Journal_Title :
Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on