A faster digitizer system for the Hadron Blind Detector in PHENIX

Author

Chi, C.-Y. ; Anderson, W. ; Azmoun, B. ; Citron, Z. ; Dubey, A. ; Durham, M. ; Fraenkel, Z. ; Harder, J. ; Hemmick, T. ; Kamin, J. ; Kozlov, A. ; Milov, A. ; Naglis, M. ; Connor, P.O. ; Pisani, R.P. ; Radeka, V. ; Ravinovich, I. ; Sakaguchi, T. ; Sharma,

Volume

3

fYear

2007

fDate

Oct. 26 2007-Nov. 3 2007

Firstpage

1997

Lastpage

2000

Abstract

A Hadron Blind Detector (HBD) has been installed in the PHENIX experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). A 2300 channel compact 12-bit 60 MHz digitizer system has been built to read the HBD system. The raw signals are shaped with 70 ns rise time and are directly digitized. The time and charge of the raw signals can be calculated from the multiple samples. The system is designed to handle Level 1 (L1) trigger rates up to 25 kHz with 5 L1 event buffers. Large amounts of data are generated after the ADC. Issues regarding clock distribution, data handling, event buffers, and L1 trigger primitive generations have been addressed. The overall system performance will also be discussed.

Keywords

Cherenkov counters; analogue-digital conversion; data handling; nuclear electronics; position sensitive particle detectors; readout electronics; ADC; HBD system; Hadron Blind Detector; LI trigger generations; PHENIX; RHIC; Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider; clock distribution; data handling; digitizer system; frequency 60 MHz; readout electronics; time 70 ns; Cathodes; Charge measurement; Clocks; Current measurement; Detectors; Electrons; Physics; Pins; Protons; Time measurement;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, 2007. NSS '07. IEEE

Conference_Location

Honolulu, HI

ISSN

1095-7863

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-0922-8

Electronic_ISBN

1095-7863

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NSSMIC.2007.4436545

Filename

4436545