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The real-time data processing and acquisition system for Project 8 Phase II

Instrumentation and Detectors 2025-06-30 v1

Abstract

In Phase II of the Project 8 neutrino mass experiment, electrons from the decays of tritium or 83m{}^{83\mathrm{m}}Kr are detected via their \approx26 GHz cyclotron radiation while contained within a circular waveguide. The signal from a given electron is characterized as a brief chirp, lasting \lesssim10 ms and changing in frequency by \lesssim1 MHz/ms. To detect these signals, the Project 8 collaboration developed a data acquisition (DAQ) system tailored to the signal properties. The DAQ is responsible for simultaneously selecting up to three 100 MHz-wide frequency windows to study, detect, and trigger on likely signals from different electron kinetic energies, and for writing the relevant data to disk. We describe the Phase II DAQ system in detail and address how the system was used for data-taking operations.

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@article{arxiv.2506.22392,
  title  = {The real-time data processing and acquisition system for Project 8 Phase II},
  author = {A. Ashtari Esfahani and A. Banducci and S. Böser and N. Buzinsky and R. Cervantes and C. Claessens and L. de Viveiros and M. Fertl and J. A. Formaggio and L. Gladstone and M. Grando and M. Guigue and J. Hartse and K. M. Heeger and A. M. Jones and K. Kazkaz and B. H. LaRoque and A. Lindman and B. Monreal and J. A. Nikkel and E. Novitski and N. S. Oblath and W. Pettus and R. G. H. Robertson and G. Rybka and L. Saldaña and P. L. Slocum and Y. -H. Sun and P. T. Surukuchi and A. B. Telles and F. Thomas and M. Thomas and T. Thümmler and L. Tvrznikova and B. A. VanDevender and T. E. Weiss and A. Young and E. Zayas and A. Ziegler},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.22392},
  year   = {2025}
}

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22 pages, 19 figures

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