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The CMS fast beams condition monitor back-end electronics based on MicroTCA technology - status and development

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Publication Date2015-09-11
JournalProceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE
AuthorsAgnieszka ZagoÅŗdzińska, Anne Dabrowski, K. PĆ³Åŗniak
InstitutionsWarsaw University of Technology, European Organization for Nuclear Research

Abstract

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The Fast Beams Condition Monitor (BCM1F), upgraded for LHC Run II, is used to measure the online luminosity andmachine induced background for the CMS experiment. The detector consists of 24 single-crystal CVD diamond sensorsthat are read out with a custom fast front-end chip fabricated in 130 nm CMOS technology. Since the signals from thesensors are used for real time monitoring of the LHC conditions they are processed by dedicated back-end electronics tomeasure separately rates corresponding to LHC collision products, machine induced background and residual activationexploiting different arrival times. The system is built in MicroTCA technology and uses high speed analog-to-digitalconverters. In operational modes of high rates, consecutive events, spaced in time by less than 12.5 ns, may causepartially overlapping events. Hence, novel signal processing techniques are deployed to resolve overlapping peaks. Thehigh accuracy qualification of the signals is crucial to determine the luminosity and the machine induced backgroundrates for the CMS experiment and the LHC.Ā© (2015) COPYRIGHT Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE). Downloading of the abstract is permitted for personal use only.

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References

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  1. 2008 - Fast Beam Conditions Monitoring (BCM1F) for CMS
  2. 2014 - Upgraded Fast Beam Conditions Monitor for CMS online luminosity measurement
  3. 2014 - Radiation Damage to the diamond-based Beam Condition Monitor of the CMS Detector at the LHC
  4. 2015 - Design of a Front-end ASIC for Single Crystal Diamond Sensors. Application as Beam Condition Monitors in CMS and LHC
  5. 2008 - Beam & Radiation Monitoring for CMS
  6. 2011 - CMS MicroTCA crate concepts & AMC card requirements

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