The data acquisition system for the KOTO experiment

Yasuyuki Sugiyama; Jia Xu; Monica Tecchio; Nikola Whallon; Duncan McFarland; Jiasen Ma; Manabu Togawa; Yasuhisa Tajima; Mircea Bogdan; Jon Ameel; Myron Campbell; Yau Wai Wah; Joseph Comfort; Taku Yamanaka

doi:10.1109/TNS.2015.2417312

The data acquisition system for the KOTO experiment

Yasuyuki Sugiyama, Jia Xu, Monica Tecchio, Nikola Whallon, Duncan McFarland, Jiasen Ma, Manabu Togawa, Yasuhisa Tajima, Mircea Bogdan, Jon Ameel, Myron Campbell, Yau Wai Wah, Joseph Comfort, Taku Yamanaka

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Abstract

We developed and built a new readout and trigger electronics system, based on a waveform digitization and pipeline readout, for the KOTO experiment at J-PARC, Japan. KOTO aims at observing the rare kaon decay K<inf>L</inf> → π<sup>0</sup>vv. A total of 4000 readout channels from various detector subsystems are digitized by 14 bit 125 MHz ADC modules equipped with 10 pole Bessel filters to reduce the pile-up effects. The trigger decision is made every 8 ns using the digitized waveform information. To avoid dead time, the ADC and trigger modules have pipelines in their FPGA chips to store data while waiting for a trigger decision. The KOTO experiment performed the first physics run in May 2013. The data acquisition system worked stably during the run.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	7108074
Pages (from-to)	1115-1121
Number of pages	7
Journal	IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science
Volume	62
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/TNS.2015.2417312
State	Published - Jun 1 2015

Keywords

Data acquisition system (DAQ)
event building
FADC
field-programmable gate array (FPGA)
front-end electronics
high energy physics instrumentation
trigger system
VME
waveform digitization

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Nuclear Energy and Engineering
Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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