Fröhlich, Uwe: Firmware, detector performance and first data of the AMIGA muon counters for the Pierre Auger Observatory. 2013
Inhalt
- Abstract
- Zusammenfassung
- Contents
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Ultra-High-Energy Cosmic Radiation
- 2.1 History of Cosmic Ray Physics
- 2.2 High-Energy Primary Cosmic Radiation
- 2.3 Cosmic Ray Air Showers
- 3 The Pierre Auger Observatory
- 4 The Muon Detector of the AMIGA Enhancement
- 4.1 Comparison of Composition Sensitive Air Shower Observables
- 4.2 Determination of the Number of Muons with the AMIGA MuonDetector
- 4.3 The Pre-Unitary Cell
- 4.4 The Muon Counter Modules
- 4.5 The Muon Detector Electronics
- 5 Firmware Features of the AMIGA Digital Board
- 5.1 Structure of the FPGA Firmware
- 5.2 Buffer Structure
- 5.3 Input and Output Registers
- 5.4 Sampling/Downsampling of Input Pulses
- 5.5 The Occupancy-N Trigger
- 5.6 The Prescaler Algorithm
- 5.7 The T1/T3 Trigger Chain
- 5.8 End-of-Event Information
- 5.9 Upgrade to 320 MHz Data Acquisition
- 6 Analysis of First Prototype Data
- 6.1 Event Structure of the AMIGA MD Data
- 6.2 Data Taking Periods
- 6.3 System Debugging Using Occupancy- and T1/T3-triggered Data
- 6.4 Selection of Combined MD/SD Events
- 6.5 Occupancy-based Analyses of T1/T3-triggered Data
- 6.6 Correlation of NOcc with SD-related Shower Observables
- 7 Summary and Outlook
- A The Pattern Board
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Abbreviations and Acronyms
- List of Components and Devices
- List of Software
- Bibliography
- Acknowledgements