Data acquisition technologies for the PHENIX detector upgrades

Author

Purschke, Martin L.

Author_Institution

Brookhaven Nat. Lab., Upton, NY, USA

fYear

2010

fDate

Oct. 30 2010-Nov. 6 2010

Firstpage

1285

Lastpage

1287

Abstract

PHENIX is one of two large experiments at Brookhaven National Laboratory´s Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). The summer shutdown of 2010 marked the begin of the installation of the PHENIX upgrade detectors, the first of which being 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; high energy physics instrumentation computing; local area networks; nuclear electronics; readout electronics; Brookhaven National Laboratory; Ethernet; PHENIX data acquisition; PHENIX upgrade detectors; RHIC; Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider; data acquisition technology; data rate; readout electronics; Data acquisition; Detectors; Field programmable gate arrays; Optical switches; Robots; Silicon;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record (NSS/MIC), 2010 IEEE

Conference_Location

Knoxville, TN

ISSN

1095-7863

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-9106-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NSSMIC.2010.5873974

Filename

5873974