Title :
Overview of the second level trigger system for the FAST detector
Author :
Martínez, G. ; Berdugo, J. ; Casaus, J. ; Mañá, C. ; Marin, J. ; Sánchez, E. ; Willmott, C.
Author_Institution :
Centro de Investigaciones Energeticas Medioambientales y Tecnologicas, Madrid, Spain
Abstract :
The second level trigger (LV2) system of the FAST detector is described in this paper. The fiber active scintillator target (FAST) is an imaging particle detector intended for muon lifetime measurement with a precision of 1 ppm. The aim of the trigger system is to reduce the data throughput that the data acquisition (DAQ) chain must handle to make the experiment able to run with a first level trigger rate of 1 MHz. The electronic system is being designed at CIEMAT (Madrid, Spain). A first prototype was developed and satisfactory results have been obtained under beam operation conditions.
Keywords :
muon detection; nuclear electronics; position sensitive particle detectors; scintillation counters; trigger circuits; FAST detector; beam operation conditions; data acquisition chain; data throughput; fiber active scintillator target; first level trigger rate; imaging particle detector; muon lifetime measurement; prototype; second level trigger system; Bars; Data acquisition; Lifetime estimation; Mesons; Plastics; Prototypes; Radiation detectors; Signal processing; Solid scintillation detectors; Throughput;
Conference_Titel :
Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, 2004 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Rome
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8700-7
Electronic_ISBN :
1082-3654
DOI :
10.1109/NSSMIC.2004.1462574
