Data Acquisition

Description

This working group will be focused on designing and implementing advanced data acquistion systems for FRIB experiments.

Questions about FRIB data acquisition

The data acquisition collaboration is working to define a program of research and development that can support the detector development collaborations in their work. It would help our work to begin defining what services your collaborations need or desire from an FRIB data acquisition system during the development of your detectors and after operations start.

To help you help us, we have these questions:

1. What are your plans for data acquisition during development and after deployment at FRIB?
* Will you use an FRIB-developed and supported data acquisition system, if available?
* Will you use an existing data acquisition system? If so, which one?
* Do you plan to develop your own?
* Why do you choose this option?

2. If your device is not using an FRIB data acquisition system, will it interface with other devices?

3. Will your device build events using information from other devices, or will it provide information to other FRIB detectors for them to build events?

4. Will your collaboration provide data acquisition support to all users of the device?

5. Will your device be controlled by the FRIB controls system or by some other control system?

6. Do you need support from FRIB in developing data acquisition for any or all of
* readout of devices,
* management of data buffers and event building, or
* data analysis?

7. What novel readout technologies will your device use that are either uncommon or not found in existing data acquisition systems?

8. How do you anticipate that the data acquisition system will limit the operation of your device?

Please send your responses to Robert Varner. We will incorporate the responses in our discussions.

Conveners

The Conveners of this Working Group are:

Robert Varner, ORNL, varnerrl at ornl.gov [Point of Contact]
Ron Fox, MSU
Ken Teh, ANL
Mario Cromaz, LBNL

Equipment Workshop Questionnaire

Please click here to view the Data Acquisition Working Group's Questionnaire for the February FRIB Equipment workshop.

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