TIGER - A fast trigger processor for the COMPASS-II recoil proton detector

Author

Baumann, Tommy ; Buchele, M. ; Fischer, H. ; Gorzellik, M. ; Grussenmeyer, T. ; Herrmann, Florian ; Jorg, Pieder ; Konigsmann, K. ; Kremser, P. ; Kunz, Thomas ; Michalski, C. ; Schill, Christian ; Schopferer, Simon ; Szameitat, T.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Phys., Univ. of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

fYear

2012

fDate

Oct. 27 2012-Nov. 3 2012

Firstpage

1380

Lastpage

1381

Abstract

State-of-the-art experiments in nuclear and high-energy physics typically operate with high-luminosity beams which leads to high event rates and large amounts of data from the detectors. The background-induced occupancy of the detector channels can be quite high; therefore it is important to have sophisticated trigger subsystems which process the data in realtime to generate trigger objects for the global trigger decision. In this work we present a FPGA based low-latency trigger processor for the COMPASS-II experiment.

Keywords

field programmable gate arrays; nuclear electronics; particle spectrometers; proton detection; COMPASS spectrometer; COMPASS-II recoil proton detector; FPGA based low-latency trigger processor; TIGER; detector channel background-induced occupancy; global trigger decision; high-energy physics; high-luminosity beams; trigger subsystems; FPGA; Trigger processor; VITA VXS; low latency; real-time tracking;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference (NSS/MIC), 2012 IEEE

Conference_Location

Anaheim, CA

ISSN

1082-3654

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2028-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NSSMIC.2012.6551336

Filename

6551336