CRU Readout Simulation for the Upgrade of the ALICE Time Projection Chamber at CERN

Abstract

ALICE Collaboration at CERN is planning major upgrade of the Time Projection Chamber Detector to cope with an increase of frequency and energy of particle collisions after 2020. The rst phase of this thesis involves contributing to the design of new hardware to be installed on the detector by developing a computer model of the readout electronics. The important part of the readout electronics is CRU { Common Readout Unit module, which controls the readout process, and prepares data before sending them out to further parts of the readout chain. The computer simulation was used to compare performance of several proposed implementations of CRU. Data readout was simulated with di erent input scenarios to estimate bu er size required by CRU. Obtained results present an important input for further improvement of the detector performance. ii