Data acquisition system for the MuLan muon lifetime experiment
Nuclear Experiment
2008-11-26 v1
Abstract
We describe the data acquisition system for the MuLan muon lifetime experiment at Paul Scherrer Institute. The system was designed to record muon decays at rates up to 1 MHz and acquire data at rates up to 60 MB/sec. The system employed a parallel network of dual-processor machines and repeating acquisition cycles of deadtime-free time segments in order to reach the design goals. The system incorporated a versatile scheme for control and diagnostics and a custom web interface for monitoring experimental conditions.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0802.1029,
title = {Data acquisition system for the MuLan muon lifetime experiment},
author = {V. Tishchenko and S. Battu and S. Cheekatmalla and D. B. Chitwood and S. Dhamija and T. P. Gorringe and F. Gray and K. R. Lynch and I. Logashenko and S. Rath and D. M. Webber},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0802.1029},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
19 pages, 8 figures, submitted to Nuclear Instruments and Methods A