MuSyC: A software package for the time alignment of the LHCb Muon System

Author

Berutti, Riccardo ; Cadeddu, Sandro ; Deplano, Caterina ; Lai, Adriano ; Passaleva, Giovanni

Author_Institution

Sezione di Cagliari, Cagliari

Volume

1

fYear

2007

fDate

Oct. 26 2007-Nov. 3 2007

Firstpage

494

Lastpage

497

Abstract

The LHCb muon system consists of 122000 front- end channels, which require being time-aligned within about 2 ns for proper operation of the experiment trigger. We describe a program which, on the base of the information acquired directly from detector, is able to calculate all the time parameters (programmable delay settings) to be loaded at different stages of the system in order to fix the necessary system calibration. The same criteria and similar procedures are also used to monitor the correct system time behavior during data-taking.

Keywords

calibration; high energy physics instrumentation computing; muon detection; nuclear electronics; software packages; LHCb muon system; MuSyC program; front-end channels; muon detectors; muon system electronics; software package; system calibration; time alignment; Calibration; Delay effects; Detectors; Helium; Mesons; Monitoring; Nuclear and plasma sciences; Software packages; Telephony; Time measurement;

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.2007.4436377

Filename

4436377