The drift chamber electronics for the NA48 experiment

Author

Arcidiacono, Roberta ; Cartiglia, Nicolo ; Chiozzi, Stefano ; Clemencic, Marco ; Ramusino, Angelo Cotta ; Damiani, Chiara ; Gianoli, Alberto ; Malaguti, Roberto ; Petrucci, Ferruccio ; Scarpa, Marcella

Author_Institution

Sezione di Torino, Ist. Nazionale di Fisica Nucl., Torino, Italy

Volume

2

fYear

2003

fDate

19-25 Oct. 2003

Firstpage

1319

Abstract

A drift chamber readout electronics for about 8000 channels with concurrent data recording and readout has been developed to update NA48 experiment existing system. Drift times are measured in bins of 1.56 ns with respect to the continuously running 40 MHz experiment clock. The architecture is based on commercially available hardware for cost effectiveness and flexibility. The design of the electronics is described, and results from data-taking runs are presented.

Keywords

data acquisition; drift chambers; field programmable gate arrays; high energy physics instrumentation computing; nuclear electronics; particle spectrometers; pipeline processing; readout electronics; 40 MHz; CERN SPS; CP violation parameters; NA48 experiment; completely pipelined readout; concurrent data recording-readout; cost effectiveness; data acquisition system; drift chamber; kaon system; magnetic spectrometer; readout electronics; track accuracy; Clocks; Data acquisition; Hardware; Mesons; Particle tracking; Perpendicular magnetic recording; Readout electronics; Spectroscopy; System testing; Wires;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, 2003 IEEE

ISSN

1082-3654

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8257-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NSSMIC.2003.1351937

Filename

1351937