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HK: Fachverband Physik der Hadronen und Kerne

HK 6: Instrumentierung

HK 6.2: Talk

Monday, March 17, 2014, 14:15–14:30, HZ 8

TRB3-based DAQ systems - A collaborative approach — •Jan Michel for the TRB3 collaboration — Goethe-Universität Frankfurt

Modern detector systems have become complex and the demands on data- and event-rates made designing a fitting data acquisition scheme a major task. On the other hand, many small research groups need a fast way to set up a small system for testing of detector prototypes.

During the past years, the data acquisition system of the HADES detector at GSI has been upgraded. Within this project, a huge set of electronic components, a network data transport protocol and software for data storage as well as control and monitoring of the detector were developed. This framework has been further extended, a new versatile FPGA platform (TRB3) has been built and can be adapted to many different needs by AddOn and front-end modules.

The full toolchain has been successfully used by various sub-groups of the FAIR experiments CBM, PANDA and HADES. Several other detector groups are interested in the project and are actively contributing. This talk will focus on the advantages such a collaborative community has for all partners. Among these is the small amount of work to be contributed by the individual, the fast installation time of new set-ups and the versatile software environment to which all users contribute.

This work has been supported by BMBF, HIC for FAIR, and GSI.