DocumentCode
840993
Title
The Crystal Ball Data Acquisition System
Author
Chestnut, R. ; Kiesling, C. ; Bloom, E. ; Bulos, F. ; Gaiser, J. ; Godfrey, G. ; Oreglia, M. ; Partridge, R. ; Peck, C. ; Porter, F. ; Aschman, D. ; Cavali-Sforza, M. ; Coyne, D. ; Sadrozinski, H. ; Kollmann, W. ; Richardson, M. ; Strauch, K. ; Hofstadter
Author_Institution
SLAC Stanford University
Volume
26
Issue
4
fYear
1979
Firstpage
4395
Lastpage
4398
Abstract
The data acquisition system for the Crystal Ball project at SLAC is described. A PDP-11/t55 using RSX-11M connected to the SLAC Triplex is the basis of the system. A "physics pipeline" allows physicists to write their own equipment-monitoring or physics tasks which require event sampling. As well, an interactive analysis package (MULTI) is in the pipeline. Histogram collection and display on the PDP are implemented using the Triplex histogramming package. Various interactive event displays are also implemented.
Keywords
CAMAC; Data acquisition; Detectors; Hardware; Packaging machines; Physics; Pipelines; Plasma displays; Solids; Sparks;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
0018-9499
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/TNS.1979.4330138
Filename
4330138
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