Electronics for a highly segmented electromagnetic calorimeter prototype

A prototype of a highly segmented electromagnetic calorimeter has been developed. The detector tower is made of 24 layers of PHASE2/MIMOSA23 silicon sensors sandwiched between tungsten plates, with 4 sensors per layer, a total of 96 MIMOSA sensors, resulting in 39 MPixels for the complete prototype...

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Published inJournal of instrumentation Vol. 8; no. 3; p. P03015
Main Authors Fehlker, D, Alme, J, Brink, A van den, Haas, A P de, Nooren, G -J, Reicher, M, Röhrich, D, Rossewij, M, Ullaland, K, Yang, S
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published 01.03.2013
Subjects
Control systems
Detectors
Electronics
Instrumentation
Prototypes
Running
Sensors
Towers
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Summary:A prototype of a highly segmented electromagnetic calorimeter has been developed. The detector tower is made of 24 layers of PHASE2/MIMOSA23 silicon sensors sandwiched between tungsten plates, with 4 sensors per layer, a total of 96 MIMOSA sensors, resulting in 39 MPixels for the complete prototype detector tower. The paper focuses on the electronics of this calorimeter prototype. Two detector readout and control systems are used, each containing two Spartan 6 and one Virtex 6 FPGA, running embedded Linux, each system serving 12 detector layers. In 550 ms a total of 4 Gbytes of data is read from the detector, stored in memory on the electronics and then shipped to the DAQ system via Gigabit ethernet.
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ISSN:1748-0221
1748-0221
DOI:10.1088/1748-0221/8/03/P03015