Fast Megapixel Charge-Coupled-Device Image Acquisition And Analysis System For High Energy Nuclear Physics

M. L. Tincknell; S. I. Chase; T. Dinh; J. W. Harris; L. Teitelbaum

doi:10.1117/12.7974196

1 October 1987 Fast Megapixel Charge-Coupled-Device Image Acquisition And Analysis System For High Energy Nuclear Physics

M. L. Tincknell, S. I. Chase, T. Dinh, J. W. Harris, L. Teitelbaum

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Optical Engineering, Vol. 26, Issue 10, 261067 (October 1987). https://doi.org/10.1117/12.7974196

Abstract

A two-camera system has been developed for photographing and analyzing images consisting of particle tracks from high energy collisions in a streamer chamber track detector. The charge-coupled-device (CCD) cameras view the collision region, with typical images consisting of more than 100 tracks. Each camera consists of a 1024 X1024 pixel CCD array. Up to three cameras can be read out simultaneously, at a rate of 5 X105 pixels/s/camera digitized to 9 bits, through a custom-designed multiplexing interface into an integer array processor, computer, and color display station. A software system has been developed that allows multiple asynchronous computer processes to record, analyze, and display the streamer chamber images. The system has been used in a high energy nuclear physics experiment for on-line analysis, digital data acquisition, and storage of streamer chamber events, with subsequent off-line image and physics analyses.

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M. L. Tincknell, S. I. Chase, T. Dinh, J. W. Harris, and L. Teitelbaum "Fast Megapixel Charge-Coupled-Device Image Acquisition And Analysis System For High Energy Nuclear Physics," Optical Engineering 26(10), 261067 (1 October 1987). https://doi.org/10.1117/12.7974196

Published: 1 October 1987

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