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Small-scale wind turbine research in resource-constrained academic settings frequently produces unreliable or unpublishable datasets due to ad-hoc instrumentation, inadequate time synchronization, storage failures, and weak data governance.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-08 Asitha Lakruwan Kulasekera

IceCube is a kilometer-scale high energy neutrino detector that builds on the wealth of experience accumulated with its smaller predecessor, AMANDA. An international collaboration has begun construction of key components of the IceCube…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Martin Kestel

We have developed the TiCkS board (Time and Clock Stamping) based on the White Rabbit (WR) SPEC node (Simple PCIe FMC carrier), to provide ns-precision time-stamps (TSs) of input signals (e.g., triggers from a connected device) and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-15 C. Champion , M. Punch , R. Oger , S. Colonges , Y. Moudden

We present a data acquisition~(DAQ) software based on the MIDAS framework, specifically for gaseous detectors to support the detector deployments and applications. It implements a comprehensive suite of functions, including parameter…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-04-14 Yuanchun Liu , Tao Li , Yu Chen , Ke Han , Leyan Li , Shaobo Wang , Wei Wang

The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) is a next-generation neutrino experiment that will probe the properties of these elusive particles with unparalleled precision. It will also act as an observatory for neutrino bursts caused by…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-05-30 Eric L. Flumerfelt

A dedicated R\&D is ongoing for the charged particle identification system of the \mbox{ALICE 3} experiment proposed for the LHC Run 5 and beyond. One of the subsystems for the high-energy charged particle identification will be a…

Antineutrinos are an unavoidable byproduct of the fission process. The kiloton-scale KamLAND experiment has demonstrated the capability to detect reactor antineutrinos at few-hundred-km range. But to detect or rule out the existence of a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-08-18 Viacheslav A. Li , Steven A. Dazeley , Marc Bergevin , Adam Bernstein

CuboDAQ is a custom data acquisition system to read out SiPM-based detectors. It features electronic boards to digitize the SiPMs signal, an FPGA-based system-on-module board, the connectivity to transmit the data to a central server, and…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-01-10 Ettore Zaffaroni , Guido Haefeli

Some preliminary thoughts on how to design and develop the DAQ architecture for the Silicon tracking system at the future Linear electron positron collider, are briefly presented here. The proposed structure includes three DAQ levels. The…

The RICH detectors of the LHCb experiment provide identification of hadrons produced in high energy proton-proton collisions in the LHC at CERN over a wide momentum range (2 to 100 GeV/c). Cherenkov light is collected on photon detector…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-03-14 L. Cassina

A low-cost DAQ card has been developed for school-network cosmic ray detector projects, providing digitized data from photomultiplier tubes via a standard serial interface. To facilitate analysis of these data and to provide students with a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2007-05-23 Hans Berns , T. H. Burnett , Richard Gran , Graham Wheel , R. Jeffrey Wilkes , Dan Claes , Jared Kite , Gregory Snow

IceCube is a km-scale neutrino observatory under construction at the South Pole with sensors both in the deep ice (InIce) and on the surface (IceTop). The sensors, called Digital Optical Modules (DOMs), detect, digitize and timestamp the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2012-08-27 The IceCube Collaboration

The CYGNO experiment employs an optical readout to image particle interactions in a gaseous Time Projection Chamber (TPC), combining cameras and photomultiplier tubes (PMTs) to achieve high spatial resolution and timing information. This…

The Data Acquisition System of the LZ experiment, the 10-tonne dark matter detector to be installed at the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF), will collect signals from 788 photomultiplier tubes (PMTs). Because the signals from…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-11-30 Eryk Druszkiewicz

The DUNE neutrino experiment far detector has a fiducial mass of 40 kt. The O(1 M) readout channels are distributed over the 4 x 10kt modules and need to be synchronized to O( 10 ns ) with a reliable, simple, affordable system. For the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-03-18 David Cussans

Exponential increases in scientific experimental data are outstripping the rate of progress in silicon technology. As a result, heterogeneous combinations of architectures and process or device technologies are increasingly important to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Wilkie Olin-Ammentorp , Xingfu Wu , Andrew A. Chien

TORCH is a novel time-of-flight detector that has been developed to provide charged-particle identification between 2 and 10 GeV/c momentum. TORCH combines arrival times from multiple Cherenkov photons produced within a 10 mm-thick quartz…

Large-scale underground water-Cherenkov neutrino observatories rely on single photon sensors whose sensitive area for Cherenkov photons one wants to maximise. Low dark noise rates and dense module spacing will thereby allow to substantially…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-07-26 Lukas Schulte , Markus Voge , Akos Hoffmann , Sebastian Böser , Lutz Köpke , Marek Kowalski

In the Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO), the Water Cherenkov Detector Array (WCDA) is one of the key parts. The WCDA consists of 3600 Photomultiplier Tubes (PMTs) scattered in a 90000 m2 area, and both high precision time…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-06 Lei Zhao , Cong Ma , Shaoping Chu , Xingshun Gao , Zouyi Jiang , Ruoshi Dong , Shubin Liu , Qi An

New front-end electronics including ASICs and FPGA boards are under development for the ATLAS Monitored Drift Tube (MDT) detector to handle the large data rates and harsh environment expected at high-luminosity LHC runs. A mobile Data…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-11-23 Yuxiang Guo , Xueye Hu , Thomas Schwarz , Bing Zhou , Junjie Zhu