https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/s10050-023-01091-8
Regular Article - Experimental Physics
AGATA DAQ-box: a unified data acquisition system for different experimental conditions
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IJCLab, IN2P3-CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay, bat 104-108, Orsay Campus, 91405, Orsay, France
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GANIL, CEA/DRF-CNRS/IN2P3, BP 55027, 14076, Caen Cedex 5, France
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IP2I, IN2P3-CNRS, Universié Lyon 1, Lyon, France
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LNL, INFN-Legnaro, Legnaro, Italy
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Institut Laue-Langevin, B.P. 156, 38042, Grenoble Cedex 9, France
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GSI, Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
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MIRION technologies, Lingolsheim, France
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amel.korichi@ijclab.in2p3.fr
Received:
9
March
2023
Accepted:
17
July
2023
Published online:
13
September
2023
The AGATA tracking detector array represents a significant improvement over previous Compton suppressed arrays. The construction of AGATA led to numerous technological breakthroughs in order to meet the requirements and the challenges of building a mobile detector across Europe. This paper focuses on the design and implementation of the data acquisition system responsible of the readout and control of the germanium detectors of AGATA. Our system is highly versatile, capable of instrumenting AGATA and seamlessly adapting it to various configurations with a wide range of ancillary detectors and/or spectrometers. It consists of three main components: an autonomous and independent infrastructure, a dedicated application core ensuring overall consistency, and a high-performance software package providing a fully integrated data flow management including the setting-up, the supervision and the slow control of the instrument. In this paper, we present a comprehensive analysis of the system’s design and performance, particularly under high-counting rate conditions.
Y. Aubert: Deceased.
X. Grave: The author is on leave from IJCLab-CNRS
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