The Electronics and Data Acquisition System for the DarkSide-50 Veto   Detectors

P. Agnes; L. Agostino; I. F. M. Albuquerque; T. Alexander; A. K.; Alton; K. Arisaka; H. O. Back; B. Baldin; K. Biery; G. Bonfini; M. Bossa; B.; Bottino; A. Brigatti; J. Brodsky; F. Budano; S. Bussino; M. Cadeddu; M.; Cadoni; F. Calaprice; N. Canci; A. Candela; H. Cao; M. Cariello; M. Carlini,; S. Catalanotti; P. Cavalcante; A. Chepurnov; A. G. Cocco; G. Covone; L.; Crippa; D. D'Angelo; M. D'Incecco; S. Davini; S. De Cecco; M. De Deo; M. De; Vincenzi; A. Derbin; A. Devoto; F. Di Eusanio; G. Di Pietro; E. Edkins; A.; Empl; A. Fan; G. Fiorillo; K. Fomenko; G. Foster; D. Franco; F. Gabriele; C.; Galbiati; C. Giganti; A. M. Goretti; F. Granato; L. Grandi; M. Gromov; M.; Guan; Y. Guardincerri; B. R. Hackett; K. R. Herner; E. V. Hungerford; Aldo; Ianni; Andrea Ianni; I. James; C. Jollet; K. Keeter; C. L. Kendziora; V.; Kobychev; G. Koh; D. Korablev; G. Korga; A. Kubankin; X. Li; M. Lissia; P.; Lombardi; S. Luitz; Y. Ma; I. N. Machulin; A. Mandarano; S. M. Mari; J.; Maricic; L. Marini; C. J. Martoff; A. Meregaglia; P. D. Meyers; T. Miletic,; R. Milincic; D. Montanari; A. Monte; M. Montuschi; M. E. Monzani; P.; Mosteiro; B. J. Mount; V. N. Muratova; P. Musico; J. Napolitano; A. Nelson,; S. Odrowski; M. Orsini; F. Ortica; L. Pagani; M. Pallavicini; E. Pantic; S.; Parmeggiano; K. Pelczar; N. Pelliccia; A. Pocar; S. Pordes; D. A. Pugachev,; H. Qian; K. Randle; G. Ranucci; A. Razeto; B. Reinhold; A. L. Renshaw; Q.; Riffard; A. Romani; B. Rossi; N. Rossi; S. D. Rountree; D. Sablone; P.; Saggese; R. Saldanha; W. Sands; S. Sangiorgio; C. Savarese; E. Segreto; D. A.; Semenov; E. Shields; P. N. Singh; M. D. Skorokhvatov; O. Smirnov; A.; Sotnikov; C. Stanford; Y. Suvorov; R. Tartaglia; J. Tatarowicz; G. Testera,; A. Tonazzo; P. Trinchese; E. V. Unzhakov; A. Vishneva; R. B. Vogelaar; M.; Wada; S. Walker; H. Wang; Y. Wang; A. W. Watson; S. Westerdale; J. Wilhelmi,; M. M. Wojcik; X. Xiang; J. Xu; C. Yang; J. Yoo; S. Zavatarelli; A. Zec; W.; Zhong; C. Zhu; G. Zuzel (The DarkSide Collaboration)

arXiv:1606.03316·physics.ins-det·February 6, 2017

The Electronics and Data Acquisition System for the DarkSide-50 Veto Detectors

P. Agnes, L. Agostino, I. F. M. Albuquerque, T. Alexander, A. K., Alton, K. Arisaka, H. O. Back, B. Baldin, K. Biery, G. Bonfini, M. Bossa, B., Bottino, A. Brigatti, J. Brodsky, F. Budano, S. Bussino, M. Cadeddu, M., Cadoni, F. Calaprice, N. Canci, A. Candela, H. Cao

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TL;DR

This paper details the design and implementation of the electronics and data acquisition system for the veto detectors in the DarkSide-50 dark matter experiment, crucial for identifying background events.

Contribution

It introduces a specialized electronics and data acquisition system tailored for the liquid scintillator and water Cherenkov veto detectors in DarkSide-50.

Findings

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Successful integration with the veto detectors

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Enhanced background event identification

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Reliable data collection during operation

Abstract

DarkSide-50 is a detector for dark matter candidates in the form of weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs). It utilizes a liquid argon time projection chamber (LAr TPC) for the inner main detector. The TPC is surrounded by a liquid scintillator veto (LSV) and a water Cherenkov veto detector (WCV). The LSV and WCV, both instrumented with PMTs, act as the neutron and cosmogenic muon veto detectors for DarkSide-50. This paper describes the electronics and data acquisition system used for these two detectors.

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