Data handling for the ''big lepton'' detector

The large lepton detector proposed and described in previous workshops was used as a known standard to study how data might be gathered, sorted, and recorded for ISABELLE detectors. The main source of concern is the high singles rate throughout most of the detector, together with the enormous number of individual devices that are running at this rate and must be serviced for each event. A calculation is given of this rate; the result is 1.0 x 107 particles/sec into the detector (at 1032/cm2 sec). In this particular situation the use of charge coupled devices is natural; individual data elements feed continuously into these ''analog delay lines''; yet the data relevant to an occasional event are processed in parallel through a limited number of channels. The general technique seems desirable for many large scale experiments which manage to achieve in some way a reasonable trigger rate