Readout and control electronics for the T2 detector of the TOTEM experiment

Author

Greco, V. ; Lami, S. ; Magazzu, C. ; Magazzu, G. ; Scribano, A. ; Oliveri, E. ; Pedreschi, E. ; Snoeys, W. ; Sanchez, M. ; Spinella, F. ; Turini, N. ; Vulliez, P.

Author_Institution

INFN-Sezione di Pisa, Largo B. Pontecorvo 3, 56127 Italy

fYear

2008

fDate

19-25 Oct. 2008

Firstpage

1391

Lastpage

1397

Abstract

The TOTEM experiment, which will measure the total proton-proton cross-section, elastic-scattering and diffractive processes at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC), consists of three detectors: the Roman Pots, the T1 detector and the very forward tracking T2 telescope. The readout of the TOTEM detectors uses custom radiation tolerant Integrated Circuits (ICs) as the Front-End ASIC (VFAT) and the Coincidence Chip (CC). ICs developed for CMS are also used in TOTEM as the Communication and Control Unit (CCU) and Detector Control Unit (DCU). In this paper we describe the readout and control system architecture of the T2 detector and the three Printed Circuit Boards (PCB) that we have developed for its implementation: the Horse-Shoe (HS) card, the 11^TH card and the Opto TX (OTX) cards.

Keywords

Application specific integrated circuits; Collision mitigation; Communication system control; Control systems; Diffraction; Integrated circuit measurements; Large Hadron Collider; Printed circuits; Radiation detectors; Telescopes;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, 2008. NSS '08. IEEE

Conference_Location

Dresden, Germany

ISSN

1095-7863

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2714-7

Electronic_ISBN

1095-7863

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NSSMIC.2008.4774676

Filename

4774676