Radiation Tolerance of Online Trigger System for COMET Phase-I
| Autor: | Jordan Nash, Hisataka Yoshida, Kazuki Ueno, Sam Dekkers, Yu Nakazawa, Yuki Fujii, Ting Sam Wong |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Physics
Nuclear and High Energy Physics Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors Muon 010308 nuclear & particles physics Comet Detector FOS: Physical sciences Order (ring theory) Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det) Dead time 01 natural sciences High Energy Physics - Experiment Computational physics High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex) Nuclear Energy and Engineering 0103 physical sciences Neutron Sensitivity (control systems) Electrical and Electronic Engineering Error detection and correction |
| Zdroj: | IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science. 68:2020-2027 |
| ISSN: | 1558-1578 0018-9499 |
| DOI: | 10.1109/tns.2021.3084961 |
| Popis: | The COMET experiment aims to search for the neutrinoless muon to electron transition process with new sensitivity levels. The online trigger system is an integral part of achieving the sensitivity levels required and will be subject to an expected neutron fluence of up to $10^{12}$ $n \cdot \mathrm{cm}^{-2}\;$ within regions inside the detector solenoid. Consequently a significant number of soft errors in the logic of the onboard field programmable gate arrays (FPGA) can occur, requiring error correction for single event upsets and firmware reprogramming schemes for unrecoverable soft errors. We studied the radiation tolerance of the COMET Phase-I front-end trigger system, called COTTRI, subject to neutron fluence on order $10^{12}$ $n \cdot \mathrm{cm}^{-2}\;$ with multiple error correcting codes and automatic firmware reconfiguration. The regions measured were the configuration RAM, block RAM and also in a multi-gigabit transfer link using copper cables that will be used for communication between different trigger boards during Phase-I. The resulting cross sections observed suggest the most significant impact to the experiment will come from unrecoverable soft errors in configuration RAM, with dead time expected to be $(4.2 \pm 1.3)\%$. The effect of multi-bit errors in block RAM was found to be almost negligible in COMET Phase-I. In addition, multiple solutions have already been proposed in order to suppress these errors further. Soft errors observed in the multi-gigabit transfer links were measured to be of two orders of magnitude less impact compared to the unrecoverable errors in configuration RAM. We concluded that the COTTRI system meets the trigger requirement in COMET Phase-I. IEEE Real Time 2020 Conference, 8 pages, 7 figures. Update includes typo fixes along with more details and an improved conservative estimation of dead time. This work has been submitted to the IEEE for possible publication. Copyright may be transferred without notice, after which this version may no longer be accessible |
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