ONLINE ANALYSIS FOR THE OBELIX DRIFT CHAMBERS AT LEAR

被引:11
作者
BALESTRA, F
BOSSOLASCO, S
BUSSA, MP
BUSSO, L
FAVA, L
FERRERO, L
GARFAGNINI, R
GRASSO, A
MAGGIORA, A
PANZIERI, D
PIRAGINO, G
TOSELLO, F
ZOSI, G
LANARO, A
SANTI, L
机构
[1] UNIV TURIN,IST FIS GEN,I-10124 TURIN,ITALY
[2] INFN,LAB NAZL FRASCATI,FRASCATI,ITALY
[3] INFN,SEZ TRIESTE,UDINE,ITALY
[4] UNIV UDINE,DIPARTIMENTO FIS,I-33100 UDINE,ITALY
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10.1016/0168-9002(92)90342-2
中图分类号
TH7 [仪器、仪表];
学科分类号
0804 ; 080401 ; 081102 ;
摘要
We report on the characteristics and performances of front-end electronics and a data acquisition system for the jet drift chambers of the OBELIX experiment (PS201), installed at the LEAR facility of CERN. The signals of the chambers are digitized by 100 MHz 8-bit nonlinear FADCs readout through a VME-based tree-like acquisition chain. Data reduction and saving of off-line reconstruction time is obtained through zero suppression and by means of 80 embedded digital signal processors, which provide the drift time, the z-coordinate and the dE/dx sample information. With minimum ionizing particles we achieve a resolution of 160 mum in the r-phi plane and of 0.8% in the z-coordinate, and a double hit separation of about 2 mm. Preliminary results on dE/dx resolution are: sigma/mean = 12% and pi/K separation up to 500 MeV/c.
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页码:523 / 527
页数:5
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