Upgrades for the PHENIX data acquisition system

Author

Purschke, Martin L.

Author_Institution

Brookhaven Nat. Lab., Upton, NY, USA

fYear

2010

fDate

24-28 May 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

PHENIX is one of two large experiments at Brookhaven National Laboratory´s Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). At the time of this conference, the Run 10 of RHIC is in progress and has generated about a PetaByte of raw data. The following summer shutdown marks the begin of the installation of the PHENIX upgrade detectors, the first of which will be commissioned for the upcoming Run 11. In order to accommodate the new detectors in the PHENIX data acquisition, we will start to implement significant changes to the system, such as the switch to a new generation of readout electronics, and the move to 10 Gigabit Ethernet for the components with the highest data volume. Once fully installed, the new detectors will about triple the current maximum data rate from about 600MB/s to 1.8 GB/s.

Keywords

data acquisition; data communication equipment; high energy physics instrumentation computing; local area networks; nuclear electronics; particle detectors; readout electronics; 10 Gigabit Ethernet; Brookhaven National Laboratory; PHENIX data acquisition system upgrades; PHENIX upgrade detectors; RHIC; Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider; readout electronics; Buffer storage; Data acquisition; Detectors; Field programmable gate arrays; Robots; Silicon; Switches;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Real Time Conference (RT), 2010 17th IEEE-NPSS

Conference_Location

Lisbon

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-7108-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RTC.2010.5750356

Filename

5750356