269 research outputs found
Timing distribution and Data Flow for the ATLAS Tile Calorimeter Phase II Upgrade
No full textThe Hadronic Tile Calorimeter (TileCal) detector is one of the several subsystems composing the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The LHC upgrade program plans an increase of order five times the LHC nominal instantaneous luminosity culminating in the High Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC). In order to accommodate the detector to the new HL-LHC parameters, the TileCal read out electronics is being redesigned introducing a new read out strategy with a full-digital trigger system. In the new read out architecture, the front-end electronics allocates the MainBoards and the DaughterBoards. The MainBoard digitizes the analog signals coming from the PhotoMultiplier Tubes (PMTs), provides integrated data for minimum bias monitoring and includes electronics for PMT calibration. The DaughterBoard receives and distributes Detector Control System (DCS) commands, clock and timing commands to the rest of the elements of the front-end electronics, as well as, collects and transmits the digitized data to the back-end electronics at the LHC frequency (~25 ns). The TileCal PreProcessor (TilePPr) is the first element of the back-end electronics. It receives and stores the digitized data from the DaughterBoards in pipeline memories to cope with the latencies and rates specified in the new ATLAS DAQ architecture. The TilePPr interfaces between the data acquisition, trigger and control systems and the front-end electronics. In addition, the TilePPr distributes the clock and timing commands to the front-end electronics for synchronization with the LHC clock with fixed and deterministic latency. The complete new read out architecture is being evaluated in a Demonstrator system in several Test Beam campaigns during 2015 and 2016. At the end of this year, a complete TileCal module with the upgraded electronics will be inserted in the ATLAS detector. This contribution shows a detailed description of the timing distribution and data flow in the new read out architecture for the TileCal Phase II Upgrade and presents the status of the hardware and firmware developments of the upgraded front-end and back-end electronics and preliminary results of the TileCal demonstrator program.The Tile Calorimeter (TileCal) is the hadronic calorimeter covering the central region of the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The upgraded High Luminosity LHC will deliver five times the current nominal instantaneous luminosity. The ATLAS Phase II upgrade will upgrade the readout electronics of the TileCal for the HL-LHC. The majority of the front- and back-end electronics will be redesigned with a new readout strategy. In the upgraded readout architecture for Phase II, the frontend electronics consist of the Front-End Boards, Main Boards and the Daughter Boards. The Main Board digitizes the analog signals coming from the Front-End Boards (FEBs) connected to the PhotoMultiplier Tubes (PMTs), provides integrated data for minimum bias monitoring and includes electronics for PMT calibration. Three different FEB options with different signal acquisition strategies are under study: new 3-in-1 cards, QIE chip and FATALIC chip. The Daughter Board receives and distributes Detector Control System commands, clock and timing commands to the rest of the elements of the front-end electronics, as well as collects and transmits the digitized data to the backend electronics at the LHC frequency (~25 ns). In the back-end electronics, the TileCal PreProcessor (TilePPr) receives and stores the digitized data from the Daughter Boards in pipeline memories to cope with the latencies and rates specified in the new ATLAS DAQ architecture. The TilePPr interfaces between the data acquisition, trigger and control systems and the front-end electronics. In addition, the TilePPr distributes the clock and timing commands to the frontend electronics for synchronization with the LHC clock
An IPMI-compliant control system for the ATLAS tilecal phase-II upgrade preprocessor module
No full textFirmware Development for the ATLAS TileCal sROD
No full textTileCal is the central hadronic calorimeter of the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. A main upgrade of the LHC (also called Phase-II) is planned in order to increase the instantaneous luminosity in 2022. At the TileCal level, the upgrade involves the redesign of the complete read-out architecture, affecting both the front-end and the back-end electronics. In the new read-out architecture, the front-end electronics will transmit digitized information of the full detector to the back-end system every single bunch-crossing. Thus, the back-end system must provide digital calibrated information to the first level of trigger. Having all detector data per bunch crossing in the back-end will increase the precision and granularity of the trigger information, improving this way the trigger efficiencies. A reduced part of the detector, 1/256 of the total, will be equipped with the new electronics during 2015 to evaluate the proposed architecture in real conditions in the so-called “demonstrator project”. The upgraded version of the Read-out Driver (sROD) will be the core element of the back-end electronics in Phase-II. This module includes two Xilinx Series 7 Field Programmable Arrays (FPGAs) for data receiving and processing and will be installed and working in an ATCA framework. A complete description of the sROD functionality in terms of firmware will be introduced. In addition, the status of the firmware development and a summary of the main milestones achieved and the future plans will be presented
Firmware developments on the TileCoM for the Phase-II Upgrade of the ATLAS Tile Calorimeter
No full textThe Tile Computer on Module (TileCoM) mezzanine board is one of the auxiliary boards of the Tile PreProcessor (TilePPr) for the Phase-II Upgrade of the readout electronics of the ATLAS Tile Calorimeter (TileCal). This board will be responsible for system monitoring and configuration by interfacing the Trigger Data Acquisition (TDAQ) system and the TilePPr. Features include configuration and monitoring of the Advanced Telecommunications Computing Architecture (ATCA) carrier and Compact Processing Module (CPM) onboard sensors through I2C and Gigabit Ethernet. This contribution presents firmware developments on an embedded Linux for the ZYNQ System-on-Chip (SoC) targeting an Avnet Ultra96-V2 ZYNQ UltraScale+ MPSoC evaluation board. This test bench will serve as a basis for the development of the main functionalities of the TileCoM mezzanine board to interface the TilePPr with the Detector Control System (DCS) and the TDAQ-I system of the Tile Calorimeter
Design of Bus Tapes for the ATLAS Strip End-Cap at the HL-LHC
No full textThe ATLAS Phase-II Upgrade will replace the Inner detector with a new all-silicon Inner Tracker (ITk) to accommodate the radiation damage and track density expected at the High-Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC). The all-silicon ITk for the HL-LHC consists of a pixel detector with 5 barrel layers and multiple forward disks at a small radius, and a strip tracking detector at the outermost part with 4 barrel layers and 6-end-cap disks on each side. This contribution presents the design of the flexible circuit (bus tape) for the local support structures of the end-cap region of the strip detector, called petals. The bus tapes provide the electrical interface to common services for all the on-board subsystems including power, control and data interfaces. Connections to external services outside of the petals are carried out through the End-of-Structure (EoS) card using optical fibres and copper wires. The bus tapes are manufactured as a 2-layer printed circuit board using polyimide and adhesive Kapton films, with a total thickness of 185 m and a total length of 60 cm. The layout design has been focused on achieving good signal and power integrity while keeping low mass and low thermal resistance. A total of 768 end-cap bus tapes will be produced between 2021 and 2022 for the assembly of 384 petals with 6,912 modules, where each end-cap disk will consist of 32 petals
The sROD Module for the ATLAS Tile Calorimeter Upgrade Demonstrator
No full textThis work presents the first prototype of the super Read-Out Driver (sROD) demonstrator board for the Tile Calorimeter Demonstrator project. This project aims to test the new readout electronics architecture for the Phase 2 Upgrade of the ATLAS Tile Calorimeter, replacing the front-end electronics of one complete drawer with the new electronics during the shutdown at the end of 2015, in order to evaluate its performance. The sROD demonstrator board will receive and process data from a complete module sending it to the present RODs to keep compatibility with the current DAQ system. Moreover the sROD demonstrator board will transmit Timing, Trigger and control information (TTC) and Detector Control System (DCS) commands to the front-end. A detailed description of the sROD board design, firmware and control and data acquisition software is presented
The PreProcessors for the ATLAS Tile Calorimeter Phase II Upgrade
No full textThe Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has envisaged a series of upgrades towards a High Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) delivering five times the LHC nominal instantaneous luminosity. The ATLAS Phase II upgrade will accommodate the detector and data acquisition system for the HL-LHC. In particular, the Tile Hadronic Calorimeter (TileCal) will replace completely front-end and back-end electronics using a new readout architecture. The digitized detector data will be transferred for every beam crossing to the PreProcessors (TilePPr) located in off-detector counting rooms with a total data bandwidth of roughly 80 Tbps. The TilePPr implements increased pipelines memories and must provide pre-processed digital trigger information to Level 0 trigger systems. The TilePPr system represents the link between the front-end electronics and the overall ATLAS data acquisition system. It also implements the interface between the Detector Control System (DCS) and the front-end electronics which is used to control and monitor the high voltage distribution system. The TilePPr is responsible of transmitting the commands to configure, control and monitor the front-end electronics
Author Correction: A detailed map of Higgs boson interactions by the ATLAS experiment ten years after the discovery
No full textSearch for light long-lived neutral particles from Higgs boson decays via vector-boson-fusion production from pp collisions at √s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector
No full textA search is reported for long-lived dark photons with masses between 0.1 GeV and 15 GeV, from exotic decays of Higgs bosons produced via vector-boson-fusion. Events that contain displaced collimated Standard Model fermions reconstructed in the calorimeter or muon spectrometer are probed. This search uses the full LHC Run 2 (2015–2018) data sample collected in proton–proton collisions at √s = 13 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 139
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. Dominant backgrounds from Standard Model processes and non-collision sources are estimated using data-driven techniques. The observed event yields in the signal regions are consistent with the expected background. Upper limits on the Higgs boson to dark photon branching fraction are reported as a function of the dark photon mean proper decay length or of the dark photon mass and the coupling between the Standard Model and the potential dark sector. This search is combined with previous ATLAS searches obtained in the gluon–gluon fusion and WH production modes. A branching fraction above 10% is excluded at 95% CL for a 125 GeV Higgs boson decaying into two dark photons for dark photon mean proper decay lengths between 173 and 1296 mm and mass of 10 GeV
A search for new resonances in multiple final states with a high transverse momentum Z boson in √s = 13 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector
No full textA generic search for resonances is performed with events containing a Z boson with transverse momentum greater than 100 GeV, decaying into e + e − or μ + μ −. The analysed data collected with the ATLAS detector in proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV at the Large Hadron Collider correspond to an integrated luminosity of 139 fb −1. Two invariant mass distributions are examined for a localised excess relative to the expected Standard Model background in six independent event categories (and their inclusive sum) to increase the sensitivity. No significant excess is observed. Exclusion limits at 95% confidence level are derived for two cases: a model-independent interpretation of Gaussian-shaped resonances with the mass width between 3% and 10% of the resonance mass, and a specific heavy vector triplet model with the decay mode W′ → ZW → llqq. [Figure not available: see fulltext.
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