• DocumentCode
    1422759
  • Title

    The NA48 data acquisition system

  • Author

    Bal, E. ; Brodier-Yourstone, P. ; Boyle, O. ; Galagedera, S. ; Gianoli, A. ; Lacourt, A. ; Luitiz, S. ; Matheys, J.P. ; Mckay, N. ; Panzer-Steindel, B. ; Parsons, H. ; Peach, K. ; Sega, B. ; Wirrer, G. ; Wittgen, M.

  • Author_Institution
    CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
  • Volume
    45
  • Issue
    4
  • fYear
    1998
  • fDate
    8/1/1998 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    1889
  • Lastpage
    1893
  • Abstract
    NA48 is a CP violation experiment that is starting its period of data taking at the CERN SPS accelerator. The expected average data rate of a few thousand events/s (with the possibility to go up to 10 kHz), a data volume up to 100 MB/s sustained over the beam burst, and the necessity to handle different subsystems with very wide variation in the number of channels have lead to the design of a modular pipelined data acquisition system with a sampling rate of 25 ns
  • Keywords
    data acquisition; high energy physics instrumentation computing; nuclear electronics; pipeline processing; CERN SPS accelerator; CP violation experiment; NA48 data acquisition system; modular pipelined data acquisition system; sampling rate; Assembly; Calibration; Data acquisition; Detectors; Filtering; Mesons; Physics; Random access memory; Switches; Workstations;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9499
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/23.710957
  • Filename
    710957