Data Acquisition System for Quality Tests of the ATLAS Muon Endcap Trigger Chambers

The ATLAS The Collaboration is building a general-purpose pp detector which is design to exploit the full discovery potential of the high energy proton-proton interaction Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. The LHC offers a large range of physics opportunities, among which the origin of mass at the electroweak scale is a major focus of interest for ATLAS. The detector optimization is therefore guided by physics issues such a sensitivity to the largest possible Higgs mass range. The Thin Gap Chambers (TGCs) are detectors designed to detect the high transverse momentum muons in the endcaps of the ATLAS detector. The short response time of the TGCs makes it an ideal trigger system for selecting interesting events in the highly packed environment of the LHC accelerator. The TGCs are designed and built in Weizmann Institute and are tested at the Tel-Aviv University and at the Technion. The subject of this dissertation is the design and operation of the data acqusition system, which serves to automatize the procedure of testing the performance of the TGC detector, before are to be installed in the ATLAS experiment.