A Prototype PCI-based Data Acquisition System for Cosmic Ray Detection Below 10^18 eV

S. BenZvi; S. Westerhoff; J. Ban; W. Sippach

A Prototype PCI-based Data Acquisition System for Cosmic Ray Detection Below 10^18 eV

Instrumentation and Detectors 2007-05-23 v1 Astrophysics

Authors: S. BenZvi , S. Westerhoff , J. Ban , W. Sippach

Abstract

A prototype flash analog-to-digital readout system for cosmic ray detection at energies below 10^18 eV has been designed and tested at Columbia University Nevis Laboratories. The electronics consist of an FADC module that digitizes 16 photomultipliers at 40 MHz with 14-bit dynamic range. The module is read out to a PC (running Linux) through a PCI interface. Taking advantage of the large bandwidth provided by the PCI bus, we have implemented a software-based data acquisition system. This note describes the software and electronics, as well as preliminary tests carried out using a prototype FADC module.

Keywords

detector readout electronics particle detector

Cite

@article{arxiv.physics/0603233,
  title  = {A Prototype PCI-based Data Acquisition System for Cosmic Ray Detection Below 10^18 eV},
  author = {S. BenZvi and S. Westerhoff and J. Ban and W. Sippach},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/0603233},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

11 pages, 5 figures, submitted to Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A

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