Design and implementation of the AMIGA embedded system for data acquisition

0548312 - FZÚ 2022 RIV GB eng J - Journal Article
Aab, A. - Abreu, A. - Aglietta, M. - Bakalová, Alena - Blažek, Jiří - Boháčová, Martina - Chudoba, Jiří - Ebr, Jan - Hamal, Petr - Janeček, Petr - Juryšek, Jakub - Mandát, Dušan - Palatka, Miroslav - Pech, Miroslav - Prouza, Michael - Řídký, Jan - dos Santos, Eva M. Martins - Schovánek, Petr - Tobiška, Petr - Trávníček, Petr - Vícha, Jakub - Yushkov, Alexey … Total 383 authors
Design and implementation of the AMIGA embedded system for data acquisition.
Journal of Instrumentation. Roč. 16, č. 7 (2021), č. článku T07008. ISSN 1748-0221. E-ISSN 1748-0221
R&D Projects: GA MŠMT LM2015038; GA MŠMT LG15014; GA ČR(CZ) GA14-17501S; GA MŠMT(CZ) LM2018102
Institutional support: RVO:68378271
Keywords : data acquisition concepts * particle detectors * detector control systems (detector and experiment monitoring and slow ̧control systems,architecture, hardware,algorithms, databases)
OECD category: Particles and field physics
Impact factor: 1.121, year: 2021
Method of publishing: Open access

The Auger Muon Infill Ground Array (AMIGA) is part of the AugerPrime upgrade of the Pierre Auger Observatory. It consists of particle counters buried 2.3 m underground next to the water-Cherenkov stations that form the 23.5 km(2) large infilled array. The reduced distance between detectors in this denser area allows the lowering of the energy threshold for primary cosmic ray reconstruction down to about 10(17) eV. At the depth of 2.3 m the electromagnetic component of cosmic ray showers is almost entirely absorbed so that the buried scintillators provide an independent and direct measurement of the air showers muon content. This work describes the design and implementation of the AMIGA embedded system, which provides centralized control, data acquisition and environment monitoring to its detectors. The presented system was firstly tested in the engineering array phase ended in 2017, and lately selected as the final design to be installed in all new detectors of the production phase.
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