DAQ for Forward Silicon Tracker Upgrade for PHENIX

Author

Purwar, Anuj K.

Author_Institution

Los Alamos Nat. Lab., Los Alamos

fYear

2007

fDate

April 29 2007-May 4 2007

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

The forward silicon vertex tracker (FVTX) is a silicon detector being planned as an upgrade to the PHENIX experiment at RHIC. Four layers of silicon strip layers at forward and backward rapidity will add to the vertex capability of the PHENIX silicon vertex tracker (VTX) enabling measurement of secondary vertices in front of the PHENIX muon arms. This allows the identification of heavy-quark decays (charm and beauty) into muons, while also allowing rejection of pion and kaon decays into muons. We describe the FPGA based data acquisition system that is being developed for this detector.

Keywords

data acquisition; field programmable gate arrays; muon detection; nuclear electronics; position sensitive particle detectors; quark decay; readout electronics; silicon radiation detectors; DAQ; FPGA; FVTX; PHENIX experiment; RHIC; data acquisition system; forward silicon vertex tracker; heavy-quark decay into muon; kaon decay into muon; read out card; silicon detector; Arm; Collaboration; Data acquisition; Detectors; Frequency; Laboratories; Mesons; Physics; Silicon; Strips;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Real-Time Conference, 2007 15th IEEE-NPSS

Conference_Location

Batavia, IL

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-0866-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-0867-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RTC.2007.4382841

Filename

4382841