Overview of the second level trigger system for the FAST detector

Author

Martínez, G. ; Berdugo, J. ; Casaus, J. ; Mañá, C. ; Marin, J. ; Sánchez, E. ; Willmott, C.

Author_Institution

Centro de Investigaciones Energeticas Medioambientales y Tecnologicas, Madrid, Spain

Volume

3

fYear

2004

fDate

16-22 Oct. 2004

Firstpage

1726

Abstract

The second level trigger (LV2) system of the FAST detector is described in this paper. The fiber active scintillator target (FAST) is an imaging particle detector intended for muon lifetime measurement with a precision of 1 ppm. The aim of the trigger system is to reduce the data throughput that the data acquisition (DAQ) chain must handle to make the experiment able to run with a first level trigger rate of 1 MHz. The electronic system is being designed at CIEMAT (Madrid, Spain). A first prototype was developed and satisfactory results have been obtained under beam operation conditions.

Keywords

muon detection; nuclear electronics; position sensitive particle detectors; scintillation counters; trigger circuits; FAST detector; beam operation conditions; data acquisition chain; data throughput; fiber active scintillator target; first level trigger rate; imaging particle detector; muon lifetime measurement; prototype; second level trigger system; Bars; Data acquisition; Lifetime estimation; Mesons; Plastics; Prototypes; Radiation detectors; Signal processing; Solid scintillation detectors; Throughput;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, 2004 IEEE

Conference_Location

Rome

ISSN

1082-3654

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8700-7

Electronic_ISBN

1082-3654

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NSSMIC.2004.1462574

Filename

1462574