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The data acquisition and calibration system for the ATLAS Semiconductor Tracker

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A Abdesselam11, T Barber1, A J Barr11, P Bell3, J Bernabeu17, J M Butterworth16, J R Carter1, A A Carter13, E Charles18, A Clark5, A -P Colijn9, M J Costa17, J M Dalmau13, B Demirköz11, P J Dervan7, M Donega5, M D'Onifrio5, C Escobar17, D Fasching18, D P S Ferguson18, P Ferrari3, D Ferrere5, J Fuster17, B Gallop2,12, C García17, S Gonzalez18, S Gonzalez-Sevilla17, M J Goodrick1, A Gorisek3, A Greenall7, A A Grillo14, N P Hessey9, J C Hill1, J N Jackson7, R C Jared18, P D C Johannson15, P de Jong9, J Joseph18, C Lacasta17, J B Lane16, C G Lester1, M Limper9, S W Lindsay7, R L McKay6, C A Magrath9, M Mangin-Brinet5, S Martí I García17, B Mellado18, W T Meyer6, B Mikulec5, M Miñano17, V A Mitsou17, G Moorhead8, M Morrissey12, E Paganis15, M J Palmer1, M A Parker1, H Pernegger3, A Phillips1, P W Phillips12, M Postranecky16, A Robichaud-Véronneau5, D Robinson1, S Roe3, H Sandaker10, F Sciacca16, A Sfyrla5, E Stanecka3,4, S Stapnes10, A Stradling18, M Tyndel12, A Tricoli11, T Vickey18, J H Vossebeld7, M R M Warren16, A R Weidberg11, P S Wells3 and S L Wu18

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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

Keywords

Control and monitor systems-online

Particle tracking detectors

Data acquisition concepts

Software architectures (event data models, frameworks and databases)

PACS

29.40.Gx Tracking and position-sensitive detectors

29.40.Wk Solid-state detectors

07.05.Hd Data acquisition: hardware and software

06.20.fb Standards and calibration

29.85.-c Computer data analysis

29.50.+v Computer interfaces

Subjects

Accelerators, beams and electromagnetism

Nuclear physics

Instrumentation and measurement

Particle physics and field theory

Dates

Issue 01 (January 2008)

Received 23 October 2007, accepted for publication 28 December 2007

Published 28 January 2008



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