Acquafredda, R. and Ambrosio, M. and Balsamo, E. and Barichello, G. and Bergnoli, A. and Consiglio, L. and Corradi, G. and Dal Corso, F. and Felici, G. and Manea, C. and Masone, V. and Parascandolo, P. and Sorrentino, Giovanni (2004) Electronics design of the RPC system for the OPERA muon spectrometer. Il nuovo cimento C, 27 (5). pp. 429-433. ISSN 1826-9885
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Abstract
The present document describes the front-end electronics of the RPC system that instruments the magnet muon spectrometer of the OPERA experiment. The main task of the OPERA spectrometer is to provide particle tracking information for muon identification and simplify the matching between the Precision Trackers. As no trigger has been foreseen for the experiment, the spectrometer electronics must be self-triggered with single-plane readout capability. Moreover, precision time information must be added within each event frame for off-line reconstruction. The read-out electronics is made of three different stages: the Front-End Boards (FEBs) system, the Controller Boards (CBs) system and the Trigger Boards(TBs) system. The FEB system provides discrimination of the strip incoming signals; a FAST-OR output of the input signals is also available for trigger plane signal generation. FEB signals are acquired by the CB system that provides the zero suppression and manages the communication to the DAQ and Slow Control. A Trigger Board allows to operate in both self-trigger mode (the FEB’s FAST-OR signal starts the plane acquisition) or in external-trigger mode (different conditions can be set on the FAST-OR signals generated from different planes).
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Neutrino interactions ; Gas-filled counters: ionization chambers, proportional, and avalanche counters ; Electronic circuits |
| Subjects: | 500 Scienze naturali e Matematica > 530 Fisica |
| Depositing User: | Marina Spanti |
| Date Deposited: | 14 Mar 2020 12:03 |
| Last Modified: | 14 Mar 2020 12:03 |
| URI: | http://eprints.bice.rm.cnr.it/id/eprint/15254 |
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