Real-Time Data Reorganizer for the DO Central Fiber Tracker Trigger System at Fermilab.

Rapisarda, S. M. ; Wilcer, N. G. ; Olsen, J. T.

Technical Information Center Oak Ridge Tennessee

关键词: Fermilab collider detector;    Fermilab Tevatron;    Radiation detectors;    Protons;    High energy physics;   

RP-ID  :  DE2003805842

学科分类：工程和技术（综合）

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来源: National Technical Reports Library

【 摘 要 】

The DO experiment is sited at a high-energy particle accelerator, the Tevatron Collider, at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) in Batavia, Illinois, USA. Fermilab is a High-Energy Physics research laboratory operated by Universities Research Association for the US Department of Energy. The D0 Detector is located in the Tevatron where protons and anti-protons traveling close to the speed of light in opposite directions collide. The purpose of the D0 detector is to study these high-energy particle interactions. A component of the D0 Detector is the Central Fiber Tracker (CFT). The CFT is constructed of scintillating fibers that are organized together in a very precise array of ribbons, placed onto a structure formed by eight co-axial cylinders. The energy deposited into a scintillating fiber by particle interactions is transformed into visible light. The light travels through the scintillating fiber and through an optical (clear) fiber connected to it, reaching a very sensitive light detector, the Visible Light Photon Counter (VLPC), hosted in a liquid helium cryostat.