The DISTO Data Acquisition System at SATURNE
The DISTO Collaboration (A. Maggiora for the Collaboration)

TL;DR
The paper describes the design and implementation of the DISTO data acquisition system at SATURNE, enabling high-rate data collection for a large-acceptance magnetic spectrometer used in proton scattering experiments.
Contribution
It introduces a comprehensive data acquisition system integrating VME CPUs, front-end electronics, and UNIX workstations for efficient high-rate data collection and online monitoring in particle physics experiments.
Findings
Able to record 3500 events per burst with 15% dead time.
Integrated multiple hardware components for real-time data processing.
Supports online event analysis and monitoring.
Abstract
The DISTO collaboration has built a large-acceptance magnetic spectrometer designed to provide broad kinematic coverage of multi-particle final states produced in scattering. The spectrometer has been installed in the polarized proton beam of the Saturne accelerator in Saclay to study polarization observables in the ( or ) reaction and vector meson production ( and ) in collisions. The data acquisition system is based on a VME 68030 CPU running the OS/9 operating system, housed in a single VME crate together with the CAMAC interface, the triple port ECL memories, and four RISC R3000 CPU. The digitization of signals from the detectors is made by PCOS III and FERA front-end electronics. Data of several events belonging to a single Saturne extraction are stored in VME triple-port ECL memories…
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Taxonomy
TopicsAdvanced Data Storage Technologies · Particle Detector Development and Performance · Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems
