BTeV trigger/DAQ innovations

Conference · Sun May 01 00:00:00 EDT 2005

OSTI ID:15017074

Votava, Margaret

BTeV was a proposed high-energy physics (HEP) collider experiment designed for the study of B-physics and CP Violation at the Tevatron at Fermilab. BTeV included a large-scale, high-speed trigger and data acquisition (DAQ) system, reading data from the detector at 500 Gbytes/sec and writing data to mass storage at a rate of 200 Mbytes/sec. The design of the trigger/DAQ system was innovative while remaining realistic in terms of technical feasibility, schedule and cost. This paper will give an overview of the BTeV trigger/DAQ architecture, highlight some of the technical challenges, and describe the approach that was used to solve these challenges.

• Research Organization: Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-76CH03000
• OSTI ID: 15017074
• Report Number(s): FERMILAB-CONF-05-227-CD-E; TRN: US0605092
• Resource Relation: Conference: To appear in the proceedings of 14th IEEE - NPSS Real Time Conference 2005 (RT2005), Stockholm, Sweden, 4-10 Jun 2005
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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