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 languageEnglish (US)
Article number7108074
Pages (from-to)1115-1121
Number of pages7
JournalIEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science
Volume62
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - Jun 1 2015

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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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Sugiyama, Y., Xu, J., Tecchio, M., Whallon, N., McFarland, D., Ma, J., ... Yamanaka, T. (2015). The data acquisition system for the KOTO experiment. IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, 62(3), 1115-1121. [7108074]. https://doi.org/10.1109/TNS.2015.2417312

The data acquisition system for the KOTO experiment. / Sugiyama, Yasuyuki; Xu, Jia; Tecchio, Monica; Whallon, Nikola; McFarland, Duncan; Ma, Jiasen; Togawa, Manabu; Tajima, Yasuhisa; Bogdan, Mircea; Ameel, Jon; Campbell, Myron; Wah, Yau Wai; Comfort, Joseph; Yamanaka, Taku.

In: IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, Vol. 62, No. 3, 7108074, 01.06.2015, p. 1115-1121.

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Sugiyama, Y, Xu, J, Tecchio, M, Whallon, N, McFarland, D, Ma, J, Togawa, M, Tajima, Y, Bogdan, M, Ameel, J, Campbell, M, Wah, YW, Comfort, J & Yamanaka, T 2015, 'The data acquisition system for the KOTO experiment', IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, vol. 62, no. 3, 7108074, pp. 1115-1121. https://doi.org/10.1109/TNS.2015.2417312
Sugiyama Y, Xu J, Tecchio M, Whallon N, McFarland D, Ma J et al. The data acquisition system for the KOTO experiment. IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science. 2015 Jun 1;62(3):1115-1121. 7108074. https://doi.org/10.1109/TNS.2015.2417312
Sugiyama, Yasuyuki ; Xu, Jia ; Tecchio, Monica ; Whallon, Nikola ; McFarland, Duncan ; Ma, Jiasen ; Togawa, Manabu ; Tajima, Yasuhisa ; Bogdan, Mircea ; Ameel, Jon ; Campbell, Myron ; Wah, Yau Wai ; Comfort, Joseph ; Yamanaka, Taku. / The data acquisition system for the KOTO experiment. In: IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science. 2015 ; Vol. 62, No. 3. pp. 1115-1121.
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