CIRCUS: an autonomous control system for antimatter, atomic and quantum physics experiments
Abstract
A powerful and robust control system is a crucial, often neglected, pillar of any modern, complex physics experiment that requires the management of a multitude of different devices and their precise time synchronisation. The AEgIS collaboration presents CIRCUS, a novel, autonomous control system optimised for time-critical experiments such as those at CERN's Antiproton Decelerator and, more broadly, in atomic and quantum physics research. Its setup is based on Sinara/ARTIQ and TALOS, integrating the ALPACA analysis pipeline, the last two developed entirely in AEgIS. It is suitable for strict synchronicity requirements and repeatable, automated operation of experiments, culminating in autonomous parameter optimisation via feedback from real-time data analysis. CIRCUS has been successfully deployed and tested in AEgIS; being experiment-agnostic and released open-source, other experiments can leverage its capabilities.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2402.04637,
title = {CIRCUS: an autonomous control system for antimatter, atomic and quantum physics experiments},
author = {Marco Volponi and Saiva Huck and Ruggero Caravita and Jakub Zielinski and Georgy Kornakov and Grzegorz Kasprowicz and Dorota Nowicka and Tassilo Rauschendorfer and Benjamin Rienäcker and Francesco Prelz and Marcis Auzins and Benedikt Bergmann and Petr Burian and Roberto Sennen Brusa and Antoine Camper and Fabrizio Castelli and Roman Ciuryło and Giovanni Consolati and Michael Doser and Lisa Glöggler and Łukasz Graczykowski and Malgorzata Grosbart and Francesco Guatieri and Nataly Gusakova and Fredrik Gustafsson and Stefan Haider and Malgorzata Janik and Gunn Khatri and Łukasz Kłosowski and Valts Krumins and Lidia Lappo and Adam Linek and Jan Malamant and Sebastiano Mariazzi and Luca Penasa and Vojtech Petracek and Mariusz Piwiński and Stanislav Pospisil and Luca Povolo and Sadiqali Rangwala and Bharat Rawat and Volodymyr Rodin and Ole Røhne and Heidi Sandaker and Petr Smolyanskiy and Tomasz Sowiński and Dariusz Tefelski and Theodoros Vafeiadis and Carsten Welsch and Tim Wolz and Michal Zawada and Nicola Zurlo},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.04637},
year = {2024}
}