Time-Of-Flight Trigger Board at CDF§

A Time-Of-Flight detector (TOF) was implemented into the Collider Detector at Fermilab (CDF) experiment in order to provide particle identification. TOF consists of scintillator Bars, Photo Multipliers (PMT), and ADC/Memory (ADMEN) that convert digitally charged of pulses from both sides of TOF scintillator Bars and the Time-Of-Flight Trigger Board (TOTRIB). TOTRIB reports coincidences from the east and west side of the detector, helping filter unwanted information that comes from the collision and the photo multipliers. The resulting hits will be analyzed and classified to determine the particles. TOTRIB was designed and built by using Orcad software. The construction of TOTRIB was divided in three stages. Creation, implementation, and verification for function ability of the desire programmable logic are completed in the first stage. The second stage dealt with the drawing and identification of the components that will be used on the board. In the third stage, the components were translated into a readable format to be laid out in the board and connected together. The resulting drawing was then sent to a company for production