The drift chamber electronics for the NA48 experiment

Author

Arcidiacono, Roberta ; Cartiglia, Nicolo ; Chiozzi, Stefano ; Clemencic, Marco ; Ramusino, Angelo Cotta ; Damiani, Chiara ; Gianoli, Alberto ; Malaguti, Roberto ; Petrucci, Ferruccio ; Scarpa, Marcella

Author_Institution

Univ. of Torino, Italy

Volume

51

Issue

4

fYear

2004

Firstpage

1470

Lastpage

1474

Abstract

Drift chamber readout electronics for over 8000 channels with concurrent data recording and readout have been developed to update the NA48 experiment existing system. Drift times are measured in bins of 1.56 ns with respect to the continuously running 40 MHz experiment clock. The architecture is based on commercially available hardware for cost effectiveness and flexibility. The design of the electronics is described, and results from data-taking runs are presented.

Keywords

data acquisition; data recording; drift chambers; high energy physics instrumentation computing; ionisation chambers; readout electronics; 40 MHz; NA48 experiment; TDC; commercially available hardware; concurrent data recording; continuously running experiment clock; cost effectiveness; data acquisition; data readout; drift chamber readout electronics; drift times; ionization chamber; Clocks; Costs; Hardware; Mesons; Particle tracking; Perpendicular magnetic recording; Readout electronics; Spectroscopy; System testing; Wires;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9499

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TNS.2004.832985

Filename

1323715