Installation and commissioning of the TileCal Read-Out Drivers

Author

Valero, A. ; Abdallah, J. ; Castillo, V. ; Cuenca, C. ; Ferrer, A. ; Fullana, E. ; González, V. ; Higon, E. ; Poveda, J. ; Ruiz-Martínez, A. ; Salvachua, B. ; Sanchis, E. ; Solans, C. ; Torres, J. ; Valls, J.A.

Author_Institution

Inst. de Fisica Corpuscular, Valencia

Volume

1

fYear

2007

fDate

Oct. 26 2007-Nov. 3 2007

Firstpage

490

Lastpage

493

Abstract

TileCal is the hadronic tile calorimeter of the ATLAS experiment at LHC/CERN. The main component of the TileCal back-end electronics is the Read-Out Driver (ROD). The ROD system is placed between the first and the second level trigger and it is the responsible for processing the data gathered by the detector. The principal devices of the RODs are the Digital Signal Processors (DSPs) mounted in the Processing Units (PUs) daughterboards. The architecture and functionality of the RODs are briefly explained. Then, it is presented the ROD system installation in the ATLAS electronics cavern. Currently, the RODs are being used for the detector commissioning. It is detailed the Detector and Verification System (DVS) tests and TileCal calibration runs performed with RODs during the three commissioning phases.

Keywords

nuclear electronics; particle calorimetry; readout electronics; signal processing; ATLAS; CERN; LHC; TileCal; back-end electronics; detector commissioning; detector-and-verification system; digital signal processors; hadronic tile calorimeter; read-out driver; second level trigger; Calibration; Detectors; Digital signal processing; Digital signal processors; Driver circuits; Large Hadron Collider; Phase detection; System testing; Tiles; Voltage control; ATLAS; DVS; Digital ignal processors; Optimal Filtering; commssioning; read-out driver;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, 2007. NSS '07. IEEE

Conference_Location

Honolulu, HI

ISSN

1095-7863

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-0922-8

Electronic_ISBN

1095-7863

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NSSMIC.2007.4436376

Filename

4436376