Development and test of a mini-Data Acquisition system for the High-Luminosity LHC upgrade of the ATLAS Monitored Drift Tube detector

TL;DR

This paper presents the development and testing of a compact Data Acquisition system designed for integration, commissioning, and testing of new electronics in the ATLAS MDT detector upgrade for the High-Luminosity LHC.

Contribution

It introduces a novel miniDAQ system tailored for the ATLAS MDT detector upgrade, enabling efficient testing and commissioning of new front-end electronics.

Findings

Successful integration and testing of new electronics using cosmic muons.

Demonstrated capability of miniDAQ for surface commissioning of MDT chambers.

Validated the hardware and firmware design through experimental results.

Abstract

New front-end electronics including ASICs and FPGA boards are under development for the ATLAS Monitored Drift Tube (MDT) detector to handle the large data rates and harsh environment expected at high-luminosity LHC runs. A mobile Data Acquisition (miniDAQ) system is designed to perform integration tests of these front-end electronics. In addition, it will be used for surface commissioning of 96 small-radius MDT (sMDT) chambers and for integration and commissioning of new front-end electronics on the present ATLAS MDT chambers. Details of the miniDAQ hardware and firmware are described in this article. The miniDAQ system is also used to read out new front-end electronics on an sMDT prototype chamber using cosmic muons and results obtained are shown.