학술논문

Trigger Merging Module for the J-PARC E16 Experiment
Document Type
Periodical
Source
IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci. Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on. 66(8):2022-2027 Aug, 2019
Subject
Nuclear Engineering
Bioengineering
Merging
Transceivers
Delays
Detectors
Clocks
Linearity
Optical receivers
Field-programmable gate array (FPGA)
J-PARC E16
serial communication
time-to-digital converter (TDC)
trigger
Xilinx Aurora protocol
Language
ISSN
0018-9499
1558-1578
Abstract
An experiment to measure an invariant mass of $\phi $ mesons in nuclear medium is planned as the J-PARC E16 experiment. A trigger merging module (TRG-MRG) has been developed to detect leading-edges from 256 channels of discriminator-output signals and transmit those serialized hit data to trigger decision module with four optical links. The result of the test shows enough performance of the TRG-MRG as 1-ns time-to-digital converter (TDC) and data multiplexer with four 6.25 Gb/s transceivers.