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Title: Smart Trigger Pre-Processor Custom Electronics for the PHENIX Experiment

Technical Report ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/822657· OSTI ID:822657

OAK-B135 The document provides a final technical report on activities and accomplishments of the experimental relativistic heavy ion physics group at the University of Colorado at Boulder as supported by the Outstanding Junior Investigator Program, Division of Nuclear Physics at the Department of Energy. All of the goals of the grant proposal were achieved during this last year of the Outstanding Junior Investigator funding period. The development of a Smart Trigger Pre-Processor module for fast trigger primitive calculations in the PHENIX experiment has been completed. We finalized the board design, constructed and tested two prototype modules, and with additional funding from the PHENIX project, we fabricated a full set of 15 modules for the Muon Tracking system. During Run-4 at RHIC:, we have begun the process of integrating these modules into the PHENIX data acquisition system, Additionally, we put a large Effort into developing new trigger and fast-track analysis methods for J{sup j}J data filtering and reconstruction. These algorithms make use of the trigger primitivE{approx}s generated via the new electronics.

Research Organization:
James Nagle at the University of Colorado at Boulder (US)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC) (US)
DOE Contract Number:
FG03-03ER41234
OSTI ID:
822657
Report Number(s):
1536787; TRN: US0401396
Resource Relation:
Other Information: PBD: 15 Jan 2003
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English