Title :
Readout electronics and data acquisition system of the MicroBooNE experiment
Author_Institution :
Brookhaven Nat. Lab., Upton, NY, USA
Abstract :
MicroBooNE is a proposed Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (TPC) detector that will observe interactions of neutrinos from the on-axis Booster Neutrino Beam and off-axis NuMI Beam at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. MicroBooNE detector has 3 readout wire planes and ~10,000 signal channels, all of channels are preamplified, shaped, digitized and pre-processed online before recording on storage for offline analysis of a wide variety of physics programs. We present here an overview of the R&D activities and readout architectural studies of the MicroBooNE experiment: front-end cold electronics, optimized signal shaping circuit, multi-channel signal digitization, FPGA based online data reduction techniques and data acquisition (DAQ) system architecture.
Keywords :
data acquisition; field programmable gate arrays; neutrino detection; pulse shaping circuits; readout electronics; scintillation counters; FPGA; Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory; Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber detector; MicroBooNE detector; data acquisition system; front-end cold electronics; multichannel signal digitization; neutrinos; on-axis booster neutrino beam; online data reduction techniques; readout electronics; signal shaping circuit; Argon; Data acquisition; Detectors; Laboratories; Neutrino sources; Particle beams; Physics; Readout electronics; Signal analysis; Wire;
Conference_Titel :
Real Time Conference, 2009. RT '09. 16th IEEE-NPSS
Conference_Location :
Beijing
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4454-0
DOI :
10.1109/RTC.2009.5322032
