Title :
Data acquisition technologies for the PHENIX detector upgrades
Author :
Purschke, Martin L.
Author_Institution :
Brookhaven Nat. Lab., Upton, NY, USA
fDate :
Oct. 30 2010-Nov. 6 2010
Abstract :
PHENIX is one of two large experiments at Brookhaven National Laboratory´s Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). The summer shutdown of 2010 marked the begin of the installation of the PHENIX upgrade detectors, the first of which being commissioned for the upcoming Run 11. In order to accommodate the new detectors in the PHENIX data acquisition, we will start to implement significant changes to the system, such as the switch to a new generation of readout electronics, and the move to 10 Gigabit Ethernet for the components with the highest data volume. Once fully installed, the new detectors will about triple the current maximum data rate from about 600MB/s to 1.8 GB/s.
Keywords :
data acquisition; high energy physics instrumentation computing; local area networks; nuclear electronics; readout electronics; Brookhaven National Laboratory; Ethernet; PHENIX data acquisition; PHENIX upgrade detectors; RHIC; Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider; data acquisition technology; data rate; readout electronics; Data acquisition; Detectors; Field programmable gate arrays; Optical switches; Robots; Silicon;
Conference_Titel :
Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record (NSS/MIC), 2010 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Knoxville, TN
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-9106-3
DOI :
10.1109/NSSMIC.2010.5873974
