The DAQ System for the ARGO-YBJ experiment

ARGO-YBJ is a full coverage air shower detector which is reaching its final design configuration. The physical goals of the experiment require the ability to study with high efficiency the low energy showers. The Data Acquisition (DAQ) System must be able to collect data from many front-end channels and sustain a high data transfer rate (up to 10–20 mega bytes per second). In this paper, the design and performance of the DAQ system are described.