EUDAQ $-$ A Data Acquisition Software Framework for Common Beam Telescopes

TL;DR

EUDAQ is a reliable, flexible, and user-friendly software framework designed for data acquisition in beam telescope experiments, facilitating detector R&D with high-precision tracking and efficient resource use.

Contribution

The paper introduces EUDAQ, a versatile and integrated data acquisition framework tailored for beam telescope experiments in high-energy physics research.

Findings

Successfully deployed in numerous test beam campaigns

Enables integration of diverse devices under test

Provides synchronized, high-precision data collection

Abstract

EUDAQ is a generic data acquisition software developed for use in conjunction with common beam telescopes at charged particle beam lines. Providing high-precision reference tracks for performance studies of new sensors, beam telescopes are essential for the research and development towards future detectors for high-energy physics. As beam time is a highly limited resource, EUDAQ has been designed with reliability and ease-of-use in mind. It enables flexible integration of different independent devices under test via their specific data acquisition systems into a top-level framework. EUDAQ controls all components globally, handles the data flow centrally and synchronises and records the data streams. Over the past decade, EUDAQ has been deployed as part of a wide range of successful test beam campaigns and detector development applications.