Journal article
Readout, first- And second-level triggers of the new Belle silicon vertex detector
M Friedl, R Abe, T Abe, H Aihara, Y Asano, T Aso, A Bakich, T Browder, MC Chang, Y Chao, KF Chen, S Chidzik, J Dalseno, R Dowd, J Dragic, CW Everton, R Fernholz, H Fujii, ZW Gao, A Gordon Show all
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment | ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV | Published : 2004
Abstract
A major upgrade of the Silicon Vertex Detector (SVD 2.0) of the Belle experiment at the KEKB factory was installed along with new front-end and back-end electronics systems during the summer shutdown period in 2003 to cope with higher particle rates, improve the track resolution and meet the increasing requirements of radiation tolerance. The SVD 2.0 detector modules are read out by VAITA chips which provide "fast or" (hit) signals that are combined by the back-end FADCTF modules to coarse, but immediate level 0 track trigger signals at rates of several tens of a kHz. Moreover, the digitized detector signals are compared to threshold lookup tables in the FADCTFs to pass on hit information on..
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