The NA49 data acquisition system

NA49 is a fixed-target, heavy-ion experiment at the 200 GeV/nucleon Pb beam of the SPS at CERN, expected to take data in late 1994. Because of the unprecedented number of charged particles (up to 2000) emerging from a single Pb-induced nuclear reaction at these energies, the demands on various parts...

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Published in:IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers); (United States) 1994-02, Vol.41 (1), p.30-36
Main Author: RAUCH, W
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
430303 > Particle Accelerators-- Experimental Facilities & Equipment
ACCELERATORS
CERN SPS SYNCHROTRON
CHARGED-PARTICLE REACTIONS
Collaboration
Computer interfaces
Costs
CYCLIC ACCELERATORS
Cyclic accelerators and storage rings
Data acquisition
DATA ACQUISITION SYSTEMS
ELECTRONIC CIRCUITS
Energy measurement
Exact sciences and technology
Experimental methods and instrumentation for elementary-particle and nuclear physics
HEAVY ION REACTIONS
INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Jacobian matrices
Laboratories
Magnetic recording
MEASURING INSTRUMENTS
Nuclear physics
NUCLEAR REACTIONS
PARTICLE ACCELERATORS
Particle beams
PARTICLE IDENTIFICATION
Physics
Projectiles
PULSE CIRCUITS
RADIATION DETECTORS
RECORDING SYSTEMS
SHOWER COUNTERS
Storage rings
Synchrotrons
SYNCHROTRONS 440104 > Radiation Instrumentation-- High Energy Physics Instrumentation
TIME PROJECTION CHAMBERS
TIME-OF-FLIGHT METHOD
TRIGGER CIRCUITS
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Summary:NA49 is a fixed-target, heavy-ion experiment at the 200 GeV/nucleon Pb beam of the SPS at CERN, expected to take data in late 1994. Because of the unprecedented number of charged particles (up to 2000) emerging from a single Pb-induced nuclear reaction at these energies, the demands on various parts of the experimental setup are extreme. For the data acquisition system a burst input data rate of 750 Mbyte/sec from more than 150,000 electronic channels has to be buffered and compressed to allow the recording of events to magnetic media at rates around 15 Mbyte/sec with reasonable effort and cost.< >
ISSN:0018-9499
1558-1578
DOI:10.1109/23.281452