• DocumentCode
    888244
  • Title

    The Trigger Supervisor: Managing Triggering Conditions in a High Energy Physics Experiment

  • Author

    Wadsworth, Bernard ; Lanza, Richard ; LeVine, M.J. ; Scheetz, R.A. ; Videbaek, Flemming

  • Author_Institution
    Laboratory for Nuclear Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA 02139
  • Volume
    34
  • Issue
    4
  • fYear
    1987
  • Firstpage
    980
  • Lastpage
    983
  • Abstract
    We describe a trigger supervisor, implemented in VMEbus hardware, which enables the host computer to dynamically control and monitor the trigger configuration for acquiring data from multiple detector partitions in a complex experiment.
  • Keywords
    Communication system control; Computerized monitoring; Detectors; Electronic equipment testing; Energy management; Hardware; Laboratories; Latches; Logic; Physics;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9499
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TNS.1987.4334780
  • Filename
    4334780