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Update of the trigger system of the PandaX-II experiment

Instrumentation and Detectors 2017-08-30 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

PandaX-II experiment is a dark matter direct detection experiment using about half-ton of liquid xenon as the sensitive target. The electrical pulses detected by photomultiplier tubes from scintillation photons of xenon are recorded by waveform digitizers. The data acquisition of Pandax-II relies on a trigger system that generates common trigger signals for all waveform digitizers. Previously an analog device-based trigger system was used for the data acquisition system. In this paper we present a new FPGA-based trigger system. The design of this system and trigger algorithms are described. The performance of this system on real data is presented.

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@article{arxiv.1707.02134,
  title  = {Update of the trigger system of the PandaX-II experiment},
  author = {Qinyu Wu and Xun Chen and Xiangdong Ji and Jianglai Liu and Siao Lei and Xiangxiang Ren and Meng Wang and Mengjiao Xiao and Pengwei Xie and Binbin Yan and Yong Yang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1707.02134},
  year   = {2017}
}