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
Content
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