title: Development and test of a free-streaming readout chain for the CBM Time of Flight Wall
creator: Loizeau, Pierre-Alain
subject: ddc-530
subject: 530 Physics
description: This thesis presents the development and test of a free-streaming readout chain for the Time of Flight (TOF) Wall of the Compressed Baryonic Matter (CBM) experiment. In order to contribute to the exploration of the phase diagram of strongly interacting matter, CBM aims at the measurement of rare probes, whose yields and phase space distributions are significantly influenced by their environment. Many of the possible signals, of which the antiprotons was investigated within this thesis, require an excellent Particle Identification (PID) and a new readout paradigm called free-streaming. In CBM, the PID for charged particles is provided by a TOF wall based on Multi-gap Resistive Plate Chambers (MRPC). Within the thesis, a central component of the TOF readout chain, the free-streaming ASIC-TDC, was evaluated and pushed from the prototype level to a close to final design, for which it could be demonstrated that it fulfill all the CBM requirements: resolution, rate capability and stability. Additionally, the CBM TOF software in the CBMROOT software framework was reorganized to merge the processing and analysis of real and simulated data. A data unpacker and a realistic digitizer were implemented with a common output data format. The digitizer was used to estimate the data rates and number of components in a free-streaming readout chain for the full wall.
date: 2014
type: Dissertation
type: info:eu-repo/semantics/doctoralThesis
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
identifier: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserverhttps://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/17081/1/dissertation_loizeau.pdf
identifier: DOI:10.11588/heidok.00017081
identifier: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-170810
identifier:   Loizeau, Pierre-Alain  (2014) Development and test of a free-streaming readout chain for the CBM Time of Flight Wall.  [Dissertation]     
relation: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/17081/
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language: eng