AGATA DAQ-box: a unified data acquisition system for different experimental conditions
Abstract
The AGATA tracking detector array represents a significant improvement over previous Compton suppressed arrays. The construction of AGATA led to numerous technological breakthroughs in order to meet the requirements and the challenges of building a mobile detector across Europe. This paper focuses on the design and implementation of the data acquisition system responsible of the readout and control of the germanium detectors of AGATA. Our system is highly versatile, capable of instrumenting AGATA and seamlessly adapting it to various configurations with a wide range of ancillary detectors and/or spectrometers. It consists of three main components: an autonomous and independent infrastructure, a dedicated application core ensuring overall consistency, and a high--performance software package providing a fully integrated data flow management including the setting-up, the supervision and the slow control of the instrument. In this paper, we present a comprehensive analysis of the system's design and performance, particularly under high-counting rate conditions.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2305.18653,
title = {AGATA DAQ-box: a unified data acquisition system for different experimental conditions},
author = {Amel Korichi and Emmanuel Clément and Nicolas Dosme and Eric Legay and Olivier Stézowski and Alain Goasduff and Yann Aubert and Jéremie Dudouet and Souhir Elloumi and Phillipe Gauron and Xavier Grave and Michele Gulmini and Jéremie Jacob and Vincent Lafage and Patrick Le Jeannic and Guillaume Lalaire and Joa Ljungvall and Clothilde Maugeais and Caterina Michelagnoli and Roméo Molini and Guillaume Philippon and Stephane Pietri and Damian Ralet and Marco Roetta and Frederic Saillant and Monique Taurigna-Quere and Nicola Toniolo},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.18653},
year = {2023}
}