Status of the data acquisition, trigger, and slow control systems of the Mu2e experiment at Fermilab

Journal Article · Fri Nov 11 00:00:00 EST 2022 · Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research. Section A, Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2022.167732· OSTI ID:1902271

Gioiosa, Antonio ^[1]; Bonventre, Richard ^[2]; Donati, Simone ^[3]; Flumerfelt, Eric ^[4]; Horton-Smith, Glenn ^[5]; Morescalchi, Luca ^[6]; Murat, Pavel ^[4]; O’Dell, Vivian ^[4]; Pedreschi, Elena ^[6]; Pezzullo, Gianantonio ^[7]; Spinella, Franco ^[6]; Uplegger, Lorenzo ^[4]; Rivera, Ryan A. ^[4]

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1. Universita’ del Molise (Italy); Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Pisa (Italy)
2. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
3. Univ. of Pisa (Italy); Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Pisa (Italy)
4. Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
5. Kansas State Univ., Manhattan, KS (United States)
6. Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Pisa (Italy)
7. Yale Univ., New Haven, CT (United States)

The Mu2e experiment at the Fermilab will search for a coherent neutrinoless conversion of a muon into an electron in the field of an aluminum nucleus with a sensitivity improvement by a factor of 10,000 over existing limits. In this work, the Mu2e Trigger and Data Acquisition System (TDAQ) uses otsdaq framework as the online Data Acquisition System (DAQ) solution. Developed at Fermilab, otsdaq integrates several framework components — an artdaq-based DAQ, an art-based event processing, and an EPICS-based detector control system (DCS), and provides a uniform multi-user interface to its components through a web browser. Data streams from the Mu2e tracker and calorimeter are handled by the artdaq-based DAQ and processed by a one-level software trigger implemented within the art framework. Events accepted by the trigger have their data combined, post-trigger, with the separately read out data from the Mu2e Cosmic Ray Veto system. Foundation of the Mu2e DCS, EPICS – an Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System – is an open-source platform for monitoring, controlling, alarming, and archiving. A prototype of the TDAQ and the DCS systems has been built and tested over the last three years at Fermilab’s Feynman Computing Center, and now the production system installation is underway. This work presents their status and focus on the installation plans and procedures for racks, workstations, network switches, gateway computers, DAQ hardware, slow controls implementation, and testing.

• Research Organization: Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: European Union; Helmholtz Association; Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN); Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation; National Science Foundation (NSF); Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC); Thousand Talents Plan; USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
• Grant/Contract Number: AC02-07CH11359
• OSTI ID: 1902271
• Report Number(s): FERMILAB-CONF-22-905-PPD; oai:inspirehep.net:2513442
• Journal Information: Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research. Section A, Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, Journal Name: Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research. Section A, Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment Vol. 1046; ISSN 0168-9002
• Publisher: Elsevier
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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