Production and commissioning performance tests of the read-out driver boards for the hadronic tile calorimeter of the ATLAS detector at the LHC

Author

Poveda, J. ; Castelo, J. ; Castillo, V. ; Cuenca, C. ; Ferrer, A. ; Fullana, E. ; Gonzalez, V. ; Higón, E. ; Munar, A. ; Martinez, A.R. ; Salvachua, B. ; Sanchís, E. ; Solans, C. ; Soret, J. ; Torres, J. ; Valero, A. ; Valls, J.

Author_Institution

Departamento de Fisica Atomica, Valencia Univ.

Volume

2

fYear

2005

fDate

23-29 Oct. 2005

Firstpage

786

Lastpage

790

Abstract

The ATLAS hadronic tile calorimeter detector (TileCal) is an iron-scintillating tiles sampling calorimeter designed to operate at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) accelerator at CERN. The central element of the back-end system of the TileCal detector is a 9U VME read-out driver (ROD) board. The operation of the TileCal calorimeter requires a total of 32 ROD boards. We report here on the overall electrical performance of the ROD boards during their production phase and during their first operation at the ATLAS commissioning setup at CERN. We report also on the real time operation and performance of the ROD digital signal processors (DSPs) on the first cosmic data runs taken at the commissioning setup. The DSP operation is based on the use of optimal filtering algorithms for the signal amplitude, pedestal and time online reconstruction and which, in addition, monitor the quality of the reconstructions

Keywords

calorimeters; particle calorimetry; position sensitive particle detectors; scintillation counters; ATLAS hadronic tile calorimeter detector; LHC; ROD digital signal processors; TileCal detector; VME read-out driver board; back-end system; cosmic data; iron-scintillating tiles sampling calorimeter; optimal filtering algorithms; real time operation; Detectors; Digital signal processing; Digital signal processors; Filtering algorithms; Large Hadron Collider; Monitoring; Production; Sampling methods; Testing; Tiles;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, 2005 IEEE

Conference_Location

Fajardo

ISSN

1095-7863

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9221-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NSSMIC.2005.1596373

Filename

1596373