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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
mathematics
The data acquisition and calibration system for the ATLAS semiconductor tracker
Journal of Instrumentation, Volume 3, No. 1, Article P01003, Year 2008
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Description
The SemiConductor Tracker (SCT) data acquisition (DAQ) system will calibrate, configure, and control the approximately six million front-end channels of the ATLAS silicon strip detector. It will provide a synchronized bunch-crossing clock to the front-end modules, communicate first-level triggers to the front-end chips, and transfer information about hit strips to the ATLAS high-level trigger system. The system has been used extensively for calibration and quality assurance during SCT barrel and endcap assembly and for performance confirmation tests after transport of the barrels and endcaps to CERN. Operating in data-taking mode, the DAQ has recorded nearly twenty million synchronously-triggered events during commissioning tests including almost a million cosmic ray triggered events. In this paper we describe the components of the data acquisition system, discuss its operation in calibration and data-taking modes and present some detector performance results from these tests. © 2007 IOP Publishing Ltd and SISSA.
Authors & Co-Authors
Abdesselam, A.
United Kingdom, Oxford
University of Oxford
Barr, Alan J.
United Kingdom, Oxford
University of Oxford
Bell, Paul J.
Switzerland, Geneva
Organisation Européenne Pour la Recherche Nucléaire
United Kingdom, Manchester
The University of Manchester
Bernabéu, José
Spain, Paterna
Csic-uv - Instituto de Física Corpuscular
Butterworth, Jonathan Mark
United Kingdom, London
University College London
Charles, Eric
United States, Madison
University of Wisconsin-madison
Clark, Allan G.
Switzerland, Geneva
Université de Genève
Colijn, Auke Pieter
Netherlands, Amsterdam
Fom-institute of Subatomic Physics - Nikhef
Costa, Maria Jose
Spain, Paterna
Csic-uv - Instituto de Física Corpuscular
Dervan, Paul John
United Kingdom, Liverpool
University of Liverpool
Escobar, Carlos O.
Spain, Paterna
Csic-uv - Instituto de Física Corpuscular
Gallop, Bruce J.
United Kingdom, Birmingham
University of Birmingham
United Kingdom, Didcot
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
Greenall, Ashley
United Kingdom, Liverpool
University of Liverpool
Hill, John C.
United Kingdom, Cambridge
University of Cambridge
de Jong, Paul D.
Netherlands, Amsterdam
Fom-institute of Subatomic Physics - Nikhef
Lacasta, C.
Spain, Paterna
Csic-uv - Instituto de Física Corpuscular
Mellado, Bruce
United States, Madison
University of Wisconsin-madison
Mitsou, Vasiliki A.
Spain, Paterna
Csic-uv - Instituto de Física Corpuscular
Moorhead, Gareth F.
Australia, Melbourne
University of Melbourne
Parker, Michael Andrew
United Kingdom, Cambridge
University of Cambridge
Phillips, Peter W.B.
United Kingdom, Didcot
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
Postranecky, Martin
United Kingdom, London
University College London
Sandaker, Heidi
Norway, Oslo
Universitetet I Oslo
Tricoli, Alessandro
United Kingdom, Oxford
University of Oxford
United Kingdom, Didcot
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
Warren, Matthew R.M.
United Kingdom, London
University College London
Statistics
Citations: 21
Authors: 25
Affiliations: 19
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1088/1748-0221/3/01/P01003
ISSN:
17480221