Speaker
Ms
Tamar ZAKAREISHVILI
(High Energy Physics Institute of Tbilisi State University)
Description
The ATLAS hadronic Tile Calorimeter (TileCal) will undergo major upgrades to the on- and off-detector electronics in preparation for the high luminosity programme of the LHC (HL-LHC) in 2026. The system will cope with the HL-LHC increased radiation levels and out-of-time pileup. The on-detector electronics of the upgraded system will continuously digitize and transmit all photomultiplier signals to the off-detector systems at a 40 MHz rate. The off-detector electronics will store the data in pipeline buffers, reconstruct cell energy, produce digital hadronic cell sums of various granularity and send it to the Level-0 calorimeter trigger system, finally read out selected events. The modular front-end electronics feature radiation-tolerant commercial off-the-shelf components and redundant design to minimise single points of failure. The timing, control and communication interface with the off-detector electronics is implemented with modern Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) and high speed fibre optic links running up to 9.6 Gb/s.
The TileCal upgrade program has included extensive R&D and test beam studies using the beams from the Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) accelerator at CERN,, and a Demonstrator module equipped with the novel electronics for the HL-LHC upgrade and compatible with the existing ATLAS read-out chain inserted in ATLAS in August 2019 for testing in actual detector conditions. We present the status of the upgrade program, the results using muon, electron and hadron beams at various incident energies and impact angles collected in 2015-2018 , combined results of Demonstrator tests and calibration runs to evaluate the readiness of the new design.
Primary authors
Ms
Tamar ZAKAREISHVILI
(High Energy Physics Institute of Tbilisi State University)
on behalf Tile Calorimeter Speakers Committee
(CERN)
