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Title: Streaming readout for next generation electron scattering experiments

Journal Article · · European Physical Journal Plus
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  1. Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Roma (Italy)
  2. Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (TJNAF), Newport News, VA (United States); Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Genova (Italy)
  3. The Catholic Univ. of America, Washington, DC (United States)
  4. Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Genova (Italy)
  5. Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (TJNAF), Newport News, VA (United States)
  6. Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Bologna (Italy)
  7. Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States); The NSF AI Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Fundamental Interactions, Cambridge, MA (United States)
  8. Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States)
  9. Università degli Studi di Messina (Italy); Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Catania (Italy)
  10. Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Ferrara (Italy)

Current and future experiments at the high-intensity frontier are expected to produce an enormous amount of data that needs to be collected and stored for offline analysis. Thanks to the continuous progress in computing and networking technology, it is now possible to replace the standard ‘triggered’ data acquisition systems with a new, simplified and outperforming scheme. ‘Streaming readout’ (SRO) DAQ aims to replace the hardware-based trigger with a much more powerful and flexible software-based one, that considers the whole detector information for efficient real-time data tagging and selection. Considering the crucial role of DAQ in an experiment, validation with on-field tests is required to demonstrate SRO performance. In this paper, we report results of the on-beam validation of the Jefferson Lab SRO framework. In this work, we exposed different detectors (PbWO-based electromagnetic calorimeters and a plastic scintillator hodoscope) to the Hall-D electron-positron secondary beam and to the Hall-B production electron beam, with increasingly complex experimental conditions. By comparing the data collected with the SRO system against the traditional DAQ, we demonstrate that the SRO performs as expected. Furthermore, we provide evidence of its superiority in implementing sophisticated AI-supported algorithms for real-time data analysis and reconstruction.

Research Organization:
Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (TJNAF), Newport News, VA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP); Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MAECI); USDOE Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) Program
Grant/Contract Number:
AC05-06OR23177; SC0019999; MAE0065689-PGR00799
OSTI ID:
1891457
Report Number(s):
JLAB-PHY-22-3556; DOE/OR/23177-5419; arXiv:2202.03085; R&D Project: JLAB-2020-LDRD-LD2014; MAE0065689-PGR00799; TRN: US2310133
Journal Information:
European Physical Journal Plus, Vol. 137, Issue 8; ISSN 2190-5444
Publisher:
SpringerCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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