The continuous readout stream of the MicroBooNE liquid argon time projection chamber for detection of supernova burst neutrinos

Journal Article · Fri Feb 05 00:00:00 EST 2021 · Journal of Instrumentation

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/16/02/p02008· OSTI ID:1674990

Abratenko, P.; Alrashed, M.; An, R.; Anthony, J.; Asaadi, J.; Ashkenazi, A.; Balasubramanian, S.; Baller, B.; Barnes, C.; Barr, G.; Basque, V.; Bathe-Peters, L.; Rodrigues, O. Benevides; Berkman, S.; Bhanderi, A.; Bhat, A.; Bishai, M.; Blake, A.; Bolton, T.; Camilleri, L. ; Caratelli, D.; Terrazas, I. Caro; Fernandez, R. Castillo; Cavanna, F.; Cerati, G.; Chen, Y.; Church, E.; Cianci, D.; Cohen, E. O.; Conrad, J. M.; Convery, M.; Cooper-Troendle, L.; Crespo-Anadón, J. I.; Tutto, M. Del; Devitt, D.; Diurba, R.; Domine, L.; Dorrill, R.; Duffy, K.; Dytman, S.; Eberly, B.; Ereditato, A.; Sanchez, L. Escudero; Evans, J. J.; Fadeeva, A. A.; Aguirre, G.A. Fiorentini; Fitzpatrick, R. S.; Fleming, B. T.; Foppiani, N.; Franco, D.; Furmanski, A. P.; Garcia-Gamez, D.; Gardiner, S.; Gollapinni, S.; Goodwin, O.; Gramellini, E.; Green, P.; Greenlee, H.; Gu, L.; Gu, W.; Guenette, R.; Guzowski, P.; Hall, E.; Hamilton, P.; Hen, O.; Horton-Smith, G. A.; Hourlier, A.; Huang, E. -C.; Itay, R.; James, C.; de Vries, J. Jan; Ji, X.; Jiang, L.; Jo, J. H.; Johnson, R. A.; Jwa, Y. -J.; Kamp, N.; Karagiorgi, G.; Ketchum, W.; Kirby, B.; Kirby, M.; Kobilarcik, T.; Kreslo, I.; LaZur, R.; Lepetic, I.; Li, K.; Li, Y.; Littlejohn, B. R.; Lorca, D.; Louis, W. C.; Luo, X.; Marchionni, A.; Marcocci, S.; Mariani, C.; Marsden, D.; Marshall, J.; Martin-Albo, J.; Caicedo, D.A. Martinez; Mason, K.; Mastbaum, A.; McConkey, N.; Meddage, V.; Mettler, T.; Miller, K.; Mills, J.; Mistry, K.; Mogan, A.; Mohayai, T.; Moon, J.; Mooney, M.; Moor, A. F.; Moore, C. D.; Mousseau, J.; Murphy, M.; Naples, D.; Navrer-Agasson, A.; Neely, R. K.; Nienaber, P.; Nowak, J.; Palamara, O.; Paolone, V.; Papadopoulou, A.; Papavassiliou, V.; Pate, S. F.; Paudel, A.; Pavlovic, Z.; Piasetzky, E.; Ponce-Pinto, I. D.; Porzio, D.; Prince, S.; Qian, X.; Raaf, J. L.; Radeka, V.; Rafique, A.; Reggiani-Guzzo, M.; Ren, L.; Rochester, L.; Rondon, J. Rodriguez; Rogers, H. E.; Rosenberg, M.; Ross-Lonergan, M.; Russell, B.; Scanavini, G.; Schmitz, D. W.; Schukraft, A.; Shaevitz, M. H.; Sharankova, R.; Sinclair, J.; Smith, A.; Snider, E. L.; Soderberg, M.; Söldner-Rembold, S.; Spentzouris, P.; Spitz, J.; Stancari, M.; St. John, J.; Strauss, T.; Sutton, K.; Sword-Fehlberg, S.; Szelc, A. M.; Tagg, N.; Tang, W.; Terao, K.; Thornton, R. T.; Thorpe, C.; Toups, M.; Tsai, Y. -T.; Tufanli, S.; Uchida, M. A.; Usher, T.; Van De Pontseele, W.; Van de Water, R. G.; Viren, B.; Weber, M.; Wei, H.; Williams, Z.; Wolbers, S.; Wongjirad, T.; Wospakrik, M.; Wu, W.; Yang, T.; Yarbrough, G.; Yates, L. E.; Zeller, G. P.; Zennamo, J.; Zhang, C.

The MicroBooNE continuous readout stream is a parallel readout of the MicroBooNE liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) which enables detection of non-beam events such as those from a supernova neutrino burst. The low energies of the supernova neutrinos and the intense cosmic-ray background flux due to the near-surface detector location makes triggering on these events very challenging. Instead, MicroBooNE relies on a delayed trigger generated by SNEWS (the Supernova Early Warning System) for detecting supernova neutrinos. The continuous readout of the LArTPC generates large data volumes, and requires the use of real-time compression algorithms (zero suppression and Huffman compression) implemented in an FPGA (field-programmable gate array) in the readout electronics. In this paper we present the results of the optimization of the data reduction algorithms, and their operational performance. To demonstrate the capability of the continuous stream to detect low-energy electrons, a sample of Michel electrons from stopping cosmic-ray muons is reconstructed and compared to a similar sample from the lossless triggered readout stream.

• Research Organization: Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States); SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States); Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States); Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States); Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States); Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA (United States); Virginia Polytechnic Inst. and State Univ. (Virginia Tech), Blacksburg, VA (United States); Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
• Contributing Organization: MicroBooNE; MicroBooNE Collaboration
• Grant/Contract Number: AC02-07CH11359; SC0007881; AC02-76SF00515; SC0020262; SC0007859
• OSTI ID: 1674990
• Alternate ID(s): OSTI ID: 1778049; OSTI ID: 1784018; OSTI ID: 1836526; OSTI ID: 1866751
• Report Number(s): FERMILAB-PUB-20-446-ND; arXiv:2008.13761; oai:inspirehep.net:1814041; TRN: US2203985
• Journal Information: Journal of Instrumentation, Vol. 16, Issue 02; ISSN 1748-0221
• Publisher: Institute of Physics (IOP)
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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