• DOI:10.1109/TNS.2015.2423702
• Corpus ID: 34905373

A High-Resolution TDC-Based Board for a Fully Digital Trigger and Data Acquisition System in the NA62 Experiment at CERN

@article{Pedreschi2014AHT,
  title={A High-Resolution TDC-Based Board for a Fully Digital Trigger and Data Acquisition System in the NA62 Experiment at CERN},
  author={E. Pedreschi and Bruno Angelucci and G. Lamanna and Guido Magazz{\'u} and Jacopo Pinzino and Roberto Piandani and Marco Sozzi and Franco Spinella and Stefano Venditti},
  journal={IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science},
  year={2014},
  volume={62},
  pages={1050-1055}
}

• E. Pedreschi, B. Angelucci, +6 authors S. Venditti
• Published 26 May 2014
• Physics
• IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

A time-to-digital converter-based system, to be used for most subdetectors in the high-flux rare-decay experiment NA62 at CERN SPS, was built as part of the NA62 fully digital trigger and data acquisition system in which the TDC Board (TDCB) and a general-purpose motherboard (TEL62) will play a fundamental role. While TDCBs, housing four high-performance time-to-digital converters (HPTDCs), measure hit times from subdetectors, the motherboard processes and stores them in a buffer, produces trigger primitives from different detectors, and extracts only data related to the lowest trigger level decision, once this is taken on the basis of the trigger primitives themselves. The features of the TDCB developed by the Pisa NA62 group are extensively discussed and performance data are presented in order to show its compliance with the experiment requirements.