A common data acquisition system for high-intensity beam experiments

Author

Igarashi, Youichi ; Fujii, Hirofumi ; Higuchi, Takeo ; Ikeno, Masahiro ; Inoue, Eiji ; Murakami, Takeshi ; Nagasaka, Yasushi ; Nakao, Mikihiko ; Nakayoshi, Kazuo ; Saitoh, Masatoshi ; Shimazaki, Shoichi ; Suzuki, Soh Y. ; Tanaka, Manobu ; Tauchi, Kazuya ;

Author_Institution

High Energy Accelerator Res. Organ., Ibaraki

Volume

52

Issue

6

fYear

2005

Firstpage

2866

Lastpage

2871

Abstract

The J-PARC facility, which will be ready in 2008, is being constructed to perform a number of experiments including nuclear physics, kaon decays and neutrino oscillation. The expected data acquisition rate ranges from 500 Hz to 10 kHz, which is significantly higher than those used in the existing small experiments at KEK. We have developed a new data acquisition system that can be used in a wide range of experiments at J-PARC. The system consists of a KEK-VME crate, a readout platform module and peripheral modules. The readout platform module is highly modularized, having four slots to install daughter cards for digitization and three PCI mezzanine card (PMC) slots for on-board data processing and other purposes. The performance of the platform module and a model setup of the data acquisition system are reported

Keywords

data acquisition; physics computing; proton accelerators; readout electronics; J-PARC facility; KEK-VME crate; PCI mezzanine card; data acquisition rate; data acquisition system; digitization; high-intensity beam experiments; kaon decays; neutrino oscillation; on-board data processing; peripheral module; proton accelerator; readout platform module; CAMAC; Connectors; Data acquisition; Fastbus; Materials science and technology; Mesons; Neutrino sources; Nuclear physics; Particle beams; Power supplies; Common platform; J-PARC; KEK-VME; PMC; data acquisition;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9499

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TNS.2005.862793

Filename

1589291