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Commissioning of the Trigger module for the 12 GeV era experiment E12-06-114 at JLab

Israel, Norman S.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1416241441

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2014, Master of Science (MS), Ohio University, Physics and Astronomy (Arts and Sciences).
Generalized Parton Distributions are a powerful new tool to study the position and momentum distribution of quarks and gluons inside hadrons. The simultaneous position and momentum distribution of quarks and gluons within the nucleon are barely known and unraveling them would lead to a deeper understanding on the structure of hadrons. Deep Virtual Compton Scattering (DVCS) is currently the best known process to access GPDs as it provides the simplest final state and thus the simplest understanding of nucleon structure. The E12-06-114 experiment, which will begin in October 2014, will focus on completing the justification that in the DVCS process, one is indeed scattering off of a single quark. This thesis focuses on the preparation of the trigger module for this experiment. The 208 channel level-2 trigger module will help reduce acquisition dead-time in the experiment. This FPGA based trigger is designed to help meet the goal of achieving a systematic error of 4%. The work done for this thesis involved integrating the module within the standard Data Acquisition System used at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (JLab) (CODA) and testing its basic functionalities. By the end of this work, data were taken with CODA simultaneously with the trigger module and the dedicated fast ADC used by the experiment. The basic functionality of this level-2 trigger was demonstrated.
Julie Roche (Advisor)
Physics
Trigger

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  • Israel, N. S. (2014). Commissioning of the Trigger module for the 12 GeV era experiment E12-06-114 at JLab [Master's thesis, Ohio University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1416241441

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Israel, Norman. Commissioning of the Trigger module for the 12 GeV era experiment E12-06-114 at JLab. 2014. Ohio University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1416241441.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Israel, Norman. "Commissioning of the Trigger module for the 12 GeV era experiment E12-06-114 at JLab." Master's thesis, Ohio University, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1416241441

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