Studies on the optical readout for the ATLAS pixel detector : systematical studies on the functions of the back of crate card and the timing of the pixel detector / vorgelegt von Tobias Flick. 2006
Inhalt
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1 Top Quark Physics at ATLAS and LHC
- 2 The Large Hadron Collider and the ATLAS Detector
- 3 Components of the Pixel Detector System
- 3.1 The ATLAS Pixel Detector
- 3.2 The Pixel Detector Read Out: The Optical Link
- 3.3 The Back of Crate Card
- 3.4 The Read Out Driver
- 3.5 The Timing, Trigger, and Control Interface Module
- 3.6 The Readout Crate Controller
- 4 The Back of Crate Card
- 5 Production of the Back of Crate Card
- 6 System Test
- 6.1 The Structure of the Wuppertal System Test Setup
- 6.2 The Measurements during the System Test
- 6.3 The Development of Software
- 6.4 The Results of the System Test Measurements
- 6.5 The Interplay of BOC Card Parameters
- 6.6 Measurements of Data Transmission Bit Errors
- 6.7 Conclusion
- 7 Study of the Pixel Detector Timing at the Combined Test Beam
- 7.1 The CTB Purpose and Setup
- 7.2 The Data Runs
- 7.3 Timing of the Pixel Detector
- 7.4 Data Analysis Methods
- 7.4.1 Offline Software - Athena Framework
- 7.4.2 Data Preparation and Athena Routines
- 7.4.3 Noise Reduction
- 7.4.4 Hit Registering Efficiency
- 7.5 Adjustment of the Pixel Detector Timing
- 7.6 The Timewalk
- 7.7 Single Hits with Low TOT
- 7.8 Conclusion
- A Plots for all Modules of the Combined Test Beam
- Acknowledgements
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Glossary
- Bibliography