A N DY Trigger and DAQ System

1. ANDY Trigger and DAQ System Chris Perkins UC Berkeley/Space Sciences Laboratory Stony Brook University ANDY Review 11/08/2011

2. ANDY Measurement Requirements • Want to measure π0 and high pair-mass Drell-Yan continuum between J/Ψ and ϒ • Need to measure Invariant Mass and Position of reconstructed particles • Need sufficient resolution of deposited energy and position • Beam-Beam Counters (BBC) need relatively crude timing resolution of hits for basic Minimum Bias Trigger • RHIC Crossing Rate : 10 MHz • Hadronic Interaction Cross Section : ~30 mb • Drell-Yan Signal Cross Section : ~7 x 10-5mb at 500GeV • Need reconfigurable Digital Trigger System/Pattern Recognition to distinguish signal from other interactions Chris Perkins

3. Portability of Trigger/DAQ System • Overall design of ANDY Trigger/DAQ system was ported from STAR Experiment Trigger System Portion of STAR Trigger Tree ANDY Trigger Tree – Run 2011 • System and custom electronics have general utility as Trigger/DAQ system for other experiments Chris Perkins

4. Trigger and DAQ System Overview All Custom Designed and Built Electronics Digitization, Buffering, Preliminary Trigger Algorithms DAQ Receiver (Linux) Custom Data Network Start/Stop Data Taking Triggering Chris Perkins

5. Digitizing, Buffering, and Trigger Algorithm Boards QT Boards : • 32 Analog Input channels • 32 Digital Output bits • To Trigger Tree • 32 Discriminator Outputs • For timing triggers • Programmable FPGA over VME • For Trigger algorithms • Digitizes Analog PMT Input Signals • Buffers incoming data • Performs initial Trigger Algorithm on data • Trigger data Read out over VME • Onboard Memory: Enough to store 7ms worth of data • Low Noise: RMS Pedestal variation < 1 count Chris Perkins

6. QT Boards (Continued) • Custom designed charge integrator circuit for PMT input signals • 12-bit, 70 MSPS Analog-to-digital converters • Configuration programmable over VME: • Daughterboard FPGAs (containing trigger algorithms) • Digitizer Gate Start/Stop (1 ns steps) • Discriminator Thresholds • Dynamic range and sensitivity: • 0-200 GeV, ~0.05 Gev (12 bit dynamic range) • ~ 0.25 pC/count ADC • Linearity over the full range • Active Capture Time: ~85ns per crossing (~85%) Motherboard Datapath Daughterboard Datapath Chris Perkins

7. Data Storage and Manipulation (DSM) Boards • 128 Digital Input bits • Differential Signaling • From QT or DSM • 16 channels x 8 bits • 32 Digital Output bits • Programmable FPGA over VME • For Trigger Algorithms • Buffered data readout over VME • Performs trigger algorithm on 128 input bits to produce 32 output bits for next layer of trigger tree DSM Datapath Chris Perkins

8. Clock Distribution • Need to keep all boards in sync across many VME crates • Custom designed RHIC Clock and Control (RCC) Board • Buffers incoming clock from accelerator (~ 10 MHz) • Fans out clock and control signals to individual trigger boards and digitizer board VME crates • Configurable phase controls Chris Perkins

9. Data Acquisition Receiver • Individual boards in each VME crate are readout over the VME backplane • Data is sent to an aggregating DAQ receiver over a custom built Fiber Data Network (overall data rate ~ 2 Gb/s) • Standard Linux machine (DAQ) houses custom built PCI card to receive digitized and triggered data • Current bottleneck is boards readout serially over VME backplane • Additional VME crates/Trigger boards can be added to system with no penalty because VME crates readout in parallel • Events can currently be collected at ~ 3kHz depending on detector occupancy • Further optimization is still ongoing • Token indexing system correlates packets from each crate and assembles into full event Chris Perkins

10. ANDY Experimental SetupRHIC Run 2011 ZDC-Yellow ZDC-Blue BBC-Yellow Chris Perkins

11. ANDY in January, 2011 Trigger/DAQ electronics Left/right symmetric HCal Left/right symmetric ECal Blue-facing BBC Left/right symmetric preshower Beryllium vacuum pipe Chris Perkins

12. Trigger Electronics Tree – Run 2011 • Digitizers/Buffering/Data Manipulation • Digital Trigger Tree • Data funnels through digital electronics • tree with algorithms performed at • each level • Last board in tree makes final decision • whether or not to trigger and readout • data • Trigger algorithms in FPGAs for easily • reconfigurable triggers (over VME) • Trigger system can look at every RHIC • crossing for a trigger (10 MHz) • (nearly zero deadtime) Chris Perkins

13. Trigger Crate Layout – Run 2011 • 3 Total VME Crates Chris Perkins

14. Detector Diagram – Run 2012 • Add 20 HCAL Modules to close gap above and below beam pipe • Test GEM Trackers using independent Scalable Readout System (SRS) Chris Perkins

15. Trigger Electronics Tree – Run 2012 • Add 20 HCAL Modules • Signals will fit into existing HCAL QT Boards • No Changes to Trigger Tree from Run 2011 Chris Perkins

16. Trigger Crate Layout – Run 2012 • Same as Run 2011 Chris Perkins

17. Detector Diagram – Run 2013 • No BBC Blue • Add new PreShower • Add ECal Blue • Old PreShower -> Mid Y • ECal -> Ecal Yellow • Expanded HCAL • Add first two GEM tracking stations (not shown) • Triggered from trigger system • Readout using “Scalable Readout System” (SRS) • Data Acquisition independent from rest of AnDY DAQ system Chris Perkins

18. Trigger Electronics Tree – Run 2013 • No BBC Blue • (-1 QT) • Add new PreShower • (+10 QT) • Add ECal Blue • (+50 QT, +9 DSM) • Old PreShower -> Mid Y • ECal -> Ecal Y • Expanded HCAL • (+2 QT) Chris Perkins

19. Trigger Crate Layout – Run 2013 • 10 Total VME Crates will fit into existing STP Data Network • Crates readout in parallel so same DAQ rate capabilities Chris Perkins

20. Detector Diagram – Run 2014 • Add Third Tracking Station Chris Perkins

21. Trigger Electronics Tree – Run 2014 • Add Third Tracking station • Detector Implementation still TBD as well as Trigger/DAQ Interface • Trigger Tree same as Run 2013 until Tracking finalized Chris Perkins

22. Trigger Crate Layout – Run 2014 • Same as Run 2013 until Tracking design is finalized Chris Perkins

23. Reconfigurable FPGA Trigger Algorithms • The following triggers have been developed so far and can be interleaved with each other during data-taking: • LED (for monitoring detector stability/gains) • Cosmic-rays (for relative calibration of Hcal) • Minimum-bias (based on BBC) • ECal Sum (for triggering on π0) • HCal Sum (for triggering on jets) • ZDC (for local polarimetry) Chris Perkins

24. Jet Trigger • Jet Trigger = Threshold on HCal Sum with BBC collisionrequirement • Crossings before and after Jet trigger are relatively clean • Delivered luminosity is fully recorded, with minimal impact from livetime Chris Perkins

25. Example : Jet Triggered Events • Select from jet-trigger events for HCal “high-tower” to be centered in module • Display for each detector of each module the ADC count as color scale (black=greatest count yellow=lowest count) • Events look “jetty”, as expected Chris Perkins

26. Scaler Boards • Capable of capturing input bits for every RHIC crossing (~10 MHz) • Currently 30 input bits but easily expandable in the future • Data is streamed to Linux Data Receivers and stored on disk Top Bottom Chris Perkins

27. Conclusions • STAR Trigger System Infrastructure Design was successfully ported to AnDY Trigger/DAQ System for Run 2011 • A suite of simultaneously running triggers was developed and used in 2011 • Expanded detector set in future runs will fit into current Trigger/DAQ system while retaining current DAQ rate capabilities Chris Perkins

28. Backup Slides Chris Perkins