Speaker
Description
CV/Bio: Dr. Stefan Ritt is a research scientist and the head of the Muon Physics Group at PSI in Switzerland. He invented the MIDAS data acquisition software, the DRS4 fast waveform digitizing chip and the Elog electronic logbook. He is currently Co-spokesperson of the Mu3e experiment searching for New Physics. Dr. Ritt is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and recipient of the 2020 IEEE Emilio Gatti Radiation Instrumentation Technical Achievement Award.
Abstract: Particle and Nuclear Physics uses all kinds of detectors to measure properties auch as energy and time of elementary particles. All detectors produce electrical signals, which need to be amplified, digitized and recorded by special electronics and computers. Modern experiments pose very high demands on these systems in accuracy such as time resolutions down to a few Picoseconds as well as the amount of produced data reaching may GBytes per seconds. This talk gives an introduction to basic digitization techniques, signal processing, triggering, bus standards and data acquisition software.
