Aaron Carta Undergraduate Research Progress, Fall 2013

This page is a summary of the work I did under the supervision of Dr. Richard Jones, in the fall semester of 2013 at the University of Connecticut.

DAQ Station

Towards the end of the summer, Jefferson Lab National Accelerator Facility loaned our research group a DAQ (Data Acquisition) workstation. It is essentially a "crate" computer, consisting of several specialized electronics boards. In order to be able to make sense of the DAQ station and how to use it for fiber testing, I had to learn about each of the components.

The CPU, named halldtrg5 and networked with Dr. Jones's cluster at the address halldtrg5.phys.uconn.edu, is in slot 1 (where the slots are labelled in increasing order from left to right).

Trigger Interface

F-ADC

SDC

LE Discriminator

TDC