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A 1 arge solid angle modul ar Nal (J i) detector with 432 phototubes and 88 trigger scintillators is being used to search simultaneously for three lepton flavor ...
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I N T E L L I G E N T TRIGGER

PROCESSOR

FOR THE C R Y S T A L

BOX

by G.H.

S a n d e r s , H . S . B u t l e r , M . D . C o o p e r , G.W. H a r t , C M . H o f f m a n , G . E . Hogan, H.S. M a t i s , V . D . Sandberg, R.A. W i l l i a m s L o s A l a m o s N a t i o n a l L a b o r a t o r y , L o s A l a m o s , NM 87545 E . B . H u g h e s , J . R o l f e , S . W i l s o n , H. Zeman H i g h E n e r g y P h y s i c s L a b o r a t o r y and D e p a r t m e n t o f P h y s i c s , S t a n f o r d U n i v e r s i t y , S t a n f o r d , CA 94305 ABSTRACT

A 1 a r g e s o l i d a n g l e modul a r N a l (J i) d e t e c t o r with 432 phototubes and 8 8 trigger scintillators is being used to search simultaneously for three lepton flavor changing d e c a y s o f t h e muon. A beam o f up t o 1 0 m u o n s s t o p p i n g p e r s e c o n d w i t h a 6 % duty factor would yield up t o 1 0 0 0 t r i g g e r s p e r s e c o n d f r o m r a n d o m t r i p l e c o i n c i d e n c e s . A reduction o f t h e t r i g g e r r a t e t o 1 0 Hz i s required from a hardwired primary trigger processor d e s c r i b e d i n t h i s paper. F u r t h e r r e d u c t i o n t o 6 5

TO M A S T E R

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I MASTER

TRIGGER

INTEGRATE a HOLD

TIME a AMPLITUDE SIGNALS E

TIME TO AMPLITUDE CONVERTER

108 C H A N N E L S

MULTIPLEXER

SODIUM IODIDE QUADRANTS

A N A L O G TO DIGITAL CONVERTER

LSI INTELLIGENT

11/23 MULTIPLEXER

8 0 K WORD

QUADRANT

1

MEMORY

A

nr.

Q-BUS

A

ACC

ACC

CRATE

C R A T E S 3,4,5--

QUADRANT k

QUADRANT

11

i

rz

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ACC

ACC

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DRIFT C H A M B E R , SCINTILLATOR DATA

PDP

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BRANCH

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Schematic r e p r e s e n t a t i o n of the secondary t r i g g e r processor. Signals from the sodiun i o d i d e modules i n each quadrant are acquired through the I n t e l l i g e n t Multiplexers. Other p o r t i o n s of t h e experiment a r e acquired through the CAMAC Branch Highway. The MBD combines a l l p o r t i o n s of t h e data f o r transmission t o t h e PDP-11/44.

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CRYSTAL BOX MULTIPLEXER 8 DIGITIZER

L S I 11/23 INTERRUPTS STABILIZATION EVENT -

COMP. ROY. OPER. ROY.

DRIFT CHAMBER DATA

STABILIZATION EVENT SELECTED

SCINTILLATOR DATA

MASTER; TRIGGER SELECTED MASTER. TRIGGER

„SET, BITS

BRANCH MGHWKV TERM.

A-2 CLEARS BITS

T T EVENT N0-9 BUSY

CRYSTAL DATA ACQUISITION SYSTEM READY

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< 3

PDP

CRYSTAL DATA COLLECTED

BIT TESTED FOR PROCESSING COMPLETE

QUADRANT I • H

BRANCH HBHWAY

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CRYSTALS

NO. II

NO. 12

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DRIFT CHAMBER NO. >

SCINTILLATOR! NO. 10

PROGRAMS

PERIPHERALS

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D e t a i l s of the secondary processor f o r one quadrant i l l u s t r a t i n g handling and system s y n c h r o n i z a t i o n .

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