CERN Accelerating science

ATLAS Slides
Report number	ATL-DAQ-SLIDE-2018-027
Title	Readout and Trigger for the AFP Detector at the ATLAS Experiment
Author(s)	Kocian, Martin (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
Corporate author(s)	The ATLAS collaboration
Collaboration	ATLAS Collaboration
Submitted to	Topical Workshop on Electronics for Particle Physics, Karlsruhe, Germany, 26 - 30 Sep 2016
Submitted by	[email protected] on 17 Jan 2018
Subject category	Particle Physics - Experiment
Accelerator/Facility, Experiment	CERN LHC ; ATLAS
Free keywords	AFP ; TDAQ ; Trigger ; DAQ ; ATLAS ; RCE ; HSIO
Abstract	AFP, the ATLAS Forward Proton consists of silicon detectors at 205 m and 217 m on each side of ATLAS. In 2016 two detectors in one side were installed. The FEI4 chips are read at 160 Mbps over the optical fibers. The DAQ system uses a FPGA board with Artix chip and a mezzanine card with RCE data processing module based on a Zynq chip with ARM processor running Linux. In this contribution we give an overview of the AFP detector with the commissioning steps taken to integrate with the ATLAS TDAQ. Furthermore first performance results are presented.