Published February 1994
| Version v1
Journal article
The NA49 data acquisition system
Description
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 2,000) 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
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science
- Journal Volume
- 41
- Journal Issue
- 1Pt1
- Journal Page Range
- p. 30-36.
- ISSN
- 0018-9499
- CODEN
- IETNAE
Conference
- Title
- 8. IEEE conference on real-time computer applications in nuclear, particle and plasma physics.
- Acronym
- RT '93
- Dates
- 8-11 Jun 1993.
- Place
- Vancouver (Canada).
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 26041840
- Subject category
- S46: INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; S43: PARTICLE ACCELERATORS;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference
- Descriptors DEI
- CERN SPS SYNCHROTRON; DATA ACQUISITION SYSTEMS; HEAVY ION REACTIONS; PARTICLE IDENTIFICATION; RADIATION DETECTORS; RECORDING SYSTEMS; SHOWER COUNTERS; TIME PROJECTION CHAMBERS; TIME-OF-FLIGHT METHOD; TRIGGER CIRCUITS
- Descriptors DEC
- ACCELERATORS; CYCLIC ACCELERATORS; DRIFT CHAMBERS; ELECTRONIC CIRCUITS; MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; MULTIWIRE PROPORTIONAL CHAMBERS; NUCLEAR REACTIONS; PROPORTIONAL COUNTERS; PULSE CIRCUITS; SYNCHROTRONS
Optional Information
- Collaborations
- NA49 Collaboration.
- Secondary number(s)
- CONF-930640--.