BoxScore -- A real-time beam-diagnosis program for CAEN digitizer x730 series

TL;DR

BoxScore is a real-time diagnostic tool for CAEN x730 digitizers that enhances beam monitoring and particle identification in nuclear physics experiments, significantly improving in-flight beam-tuning efficiency.

Contribution

It introduces a real-time beam diagnosis program for CAEN x730 digitizers, enabling faster beam tuning and data analysis during experiments.

Findings

Reduces beam-tuning time in experiments.

Provides real-time particle identification and rate measurement.

Potentially applicable to various nuclear physics setups.

Abstract

BoxScore is a real-time beam diagnosis and monitoring program for the CAEN x730 series digitizer that was developed for the ATLAS in-flight facility at Argonne National Laboratory. The CAEN x730 series digitizer, with built-in Digital Pulse Processing for the Pulse-Height-Analysis, can analyze the input signal in real-time using a trapezoidal filter. BoxScore reads the digitizer's buffer directly, builds and saves events to local files, plots filled histograms for particle identification, and outputs the rates of selected isotopes every second. Implementation of BoxScore has shortened the time needed for in-flight beam-tuning and has potential applications for other nuclear physics experiments.