DocumentCode
870457
Title
A High Speed Data Acquisition System for Fermilab Experiments
Author
Harding, David J. ; Kohlmeier, James A. ; Ritchie, David J. ; Filaseta, John E.
Author_Institution
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois
Volume
30
Issue
5
fYear
1983
Firstpage
3768
Lastpage
3772
Abstract
A high rate data acquisition system has been used to record some 40 million complex events in an experiment studying the hadroproduction of charm in Fermilab´s Broad Band Neutral Beam. Event data is accumulated during the spill in large buffer memories without computer intervention through the University of Illinois Black Bin System. Between spills the memories are read by their FASTBUS ports to a PDP-11/45 for recording on magnetic tape. A sample of events is held for analysis by the program MULTI during the following spill.
Keywords
CAMAC; Data acquisition; Event detection; Fastbus; Hardware; Magnetic analysis; Magnetic recording; Monitoring; Particle beams; Power system management;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
0018-9499
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/TNS.1983.4333005
Filename
4333005
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