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
fDate :
8/1/1998 12:00:00 AM
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;
Journal_Title :
Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on
