A faster digitizer system for the hadron blind detector in PHENIX

C. Y. Chi, W. Anderson, B. Azmoun, Z. Citron, A. Dubey, M. Durham, Z. Fraenkel, J. Harder, T. Hemmick, J. Kamin, A. Kozlov, A. Milov, M. Naglis, P. O'Connor, R. P. Pisani, V. Radeka, I. Ravinovich, T. Sakaguchi, D. Sharma, A. SicklesF. W. Sippach, S. Stoll, I. Tserruya, C. Woody, B. Yu

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Abstract

A Hadron Blind Detector (HBD) has been installed in the PHENIX experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). A 2300 channel compact 12-bit 60 MHz digitizer system has been built to read the HBD system. The raw signals are shaped with 70 ns rise time and are directly digitized. The time and charge of the raw signals can be calculated from the multiple samples. The system is designed to handle Level 1 (L1) trigger rates up to 25 KHz with 5 L1 event buffers. Large amounts of data are generated after the ADC. Issues regarding clock distribution, data handling, event buffers, and L1 trigger primitive generations have been addressed. The overall system performance will also be discussed.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publication2007 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, NSS-MIC
Pages1997-2000
Number of pages4
DOIs
StatePublished - 2007
Externally publishedYes
Event2007 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, NSS-MIC - Honolulu, HI, United States
Duration: Oct 27 2007Nov 3 2007

Publication series

NameIEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record
Volume3
ISSN (Print)1095-7863

Other

Other2007 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, NSS-MIC
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityHonolulu, HI
Period10/27/0711/3/07

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Radiation
  • Nuclear and High Energy Physics
  • Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging

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