Rate-capability of the VMM3a front-end in the RD51 Scalable Readout System

D. Pfeiffer; L. Scharenberg; P. Schwäbig; S. Alcock; F. Brunbauer; M.J. Christensen; K. Desch; K. Flöthner; F. Garcia; R. Hall-Wilton; M. Hracek; G. Iakovidis; D. Janssens; J. Kaminski; M. Lupberger; H. Muller; E. Oliveri; L. Ropelewski; A. Rusu; J. Samarati; M. van Stenis; A. Utrobicic; R. Veenhof

doi:10.1016/j.nima.2022.166548

Rate-capability of the VMM3a front-end in the RD51 Scalable Readout System

D. Pfeiffer, L. Scharenberg, P. Schwäbig, S. Alcock, F. Brunbauer, M.J. Christensen, K. Desch, K. Flöthner, F. Garcia, R. Hall-Wilton, M. Hracek, G. Iakovidis, D. Janssens, J. Kaminski, M. Lupberger, H. Muller , E. Oliveri, L. Ropelewski, A. Rusu, J. SamaratiM. van Stenis, A. Utrobicic, R. Veenhof

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The VMM3a is an Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC), specifically developed for the readout of gaseous detectors. Originally developed within the ATLAS New Small Wheel (NSW) upgrade, it has been successfully integrated into the Scalable Readout System (SRS) of the RD51 collaboration. This allows, to use the VMM3a also in small laboratory set-ups and mid-scale experiments, which make use of Micro-Pattern Gaseous Detectors (MPGDs). As part of the integration of the VMM3a into the SRS, the readout and data transfer scheme was optimised to reach a high rate-capability of the entire readout system and profit from the VMM3a’s high single-channel rate-capability of 3.6 Mhits∕s. The optimisation focused mainly on the handling of the data output stream of the VMM3a, but also on the development of a trigger-logic between the front-end cards and the DAQ computer. In this article, two firmware implementations of the non-ATLAS continuous readout mode are presented, as well as the implementation of the trigger-logic. Afterwards, a short overview on X-ray imaging results is presented, to illustrate the high rate-capability from an application point-of-view.

Original language	English
Article number	166548
Journal	Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research. Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors, and Associated Equipment
Volume	1031
Number of pages	13
ISSN	0168-9002
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2022.166548
Publication status	Published - 11 May 2022
MoE publication type	A1 Journal article-refereed

Fields of Science

114 Physical sciences
Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA)
Micro-Pattern Gaseous Detector (MPGD)
Readout electronics
Scalable Readout System (SRS)
VMM3a ASIC
X-ray imaging

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Pfeiffer, D., Scharenberg, L., Schwäbig, P., Alcock, S., Brunbauer, F., Christensen, M. J., Desch, K., Flöthner, K., Garcia, F., Hall-Wilton, R., Hracek, M., Iakovidis, G., Janssens, D., Kaminski, J., Lupberger, M., Muller , H., Oliveri, E., Ropelewski, L., Rusu, A., ... Veenhof, R. (2022). Rate-capability of the VMM3a front-end in the RD51 Scalable Readout System. Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research. Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors, and Associated Equipment, 1031, Article 166548. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2022.166548

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Rate-capability of the VMM3a front-end in the RD51 Scalable Readout System. / Pfeiffer, D.; Scharenberg, L.; Schwäbig, P. et al.
In: Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research. Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors, and Associated Equipment, Vol. 1031, 166548, 11.05.2022.

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