Upgrade of the Minos+ Experiment Data Acquisition for the High Energy NuMI Beam Run

Badgett, William; Hahn, Steve R.; Torretta, Donatella; Meier, Jerry; Gunderson, Jeffrey; Osterholm, Denise; Saranen, David

doi:10.1109/NSSMIC.2014.7431144

Title: Upgrade of the Minos+ Experiment Data Acquisition for the High Energy NuMI Beam Run

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The Minos+ experiment is an extension of the Minos experiment at a higher energy and more intense neutrino beam, with the data collection having begun in the fall of 2013. The neutrino beam is provided by the Neutrinos from the Main Injector (NuMI) beam-line at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab). The detector apparatus consists of two main detectors, one underground at Fermilab and the other in Soudan, Minnesota with the purpose of studying neutrino oscillations at a base line of 735 km. The original data acquisition system has been running for several years collecting data from NuMI, but with the extended run from 2013, parts of the system needed to be replaced due to obsolescence, reliability problems, and data throughput limitations. Specifically, we have replaced the front-end readout controllers, event builder, and data acquisition computing and trigger processing farms with modern, modular and reliable devices with few single points of failure. The new system is based on gigabit Ethernet TCP/IP communication to implement the event building and concatenation of data from many front-end VME readout crates. The simplicity and partitionability of the new system greatly eases the debugging and diagnosing process. As a result, the new system improves throughput bymore »« less

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Badgett, William ^[1]; Hahn, Steve R. ^[1]; Torretta, Donatella ^[1]; Meier, Jerry ^[2]; Gunderson, Jeffrey ^[2]; Osterholm, Denise ^[2]; Saranen, David ^[2]

Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
Soudan Underground Lab., Soudan, MN (United States)

Publication Date:: Mon Mar 14 00:00:00 EDT 2016

Research Org.:: Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)

OSTI Identifier:: 1172587

Report Number(s):: FERMILAB-CONF-14-503-ND; arXiv:1506.02197
Journal ID: ISSN 1095-7863; 1375024

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-07CH11359

Resource Type:: Accepted Manuscript

Journal Name:: IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Volume: 2014; Journal ID: ISSN 1095-7863

Publisher:: IEEE

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 46 INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; 72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS

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                    Badgett, William, Hahn, Steve R., Torretta, Donatella, Meier, Jerry, Gunderson, Jeffrey, Osterholm, Denise, and Saranen, David. Upgrade of the Minos+ Experiment Data Acquisition for the High Energy NuMI Beam Run.  United States: N. p., 2016. 
Web.  doi:10.1109/NSSMIC.2014.7431144.

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                    Badgett, William, Hahn, Steve R., Torretta, Donatella, Meier, Jerry, Gunderson, Jeffrey, Osterholm, Denise, & Saranen, David. Upgrade of the Minos+ Experiment Data Acquisition for the High Energy NuMI Beam Run.  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1109/NSSMIC.2014.7431144

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                    Badgett, William, Hahn, Steve R., Torretta, Donatella, Meier, Jerry, Gunderson, Jeffrey, Osterholm, Denise, and Saranen, David. Mon .  
"Upgrade of the Minos+ Experiment Data Acquisition for the High Energy NuMI Beam Run".  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1109/NSSMIC.2014.7431144.  https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1172587.

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  title        = {Upgrade of the Minos+ Experiment Data Acquisition for the High Energy NuMI Beam Run},

  author       = {Badgett, William and Hahn, Steve R. and Torretta, Donatella and Meier, Jerry and Gunderson, Jeffrey and Osterholm, Denise and Saranen, David},

  abstractNote = {The Minos+ experiment is an extension of the Minos experiment at a higher energy and more intense neutrino beam, with the data collection having begun in the fall of 2013. The neutrino beam is provided by the Neutrinos from the Main Injector (NuMI) beam-line at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab). The detector apparatus consists of two main detectors, one underground at Fermilab and the other in Soudan, Minnesota with the purpose of studying neutrino oscillations at a base line of 735 km. The original data acquisition system has been running for several years collecting data from NuMI, but with the extended run from 2013, parts of the system needed to be replaced due to obsolescence, reliability problems, and data throughput limitations. Specifically, we have replaced the front-end readout controllers, event builder, and data acquisition computing and trigger processing farms with modern, modular and reliable devices with few single points of failure. The new system is based on gigabit Ethernet TCP/IP communication to implement the event building and concatenation of data from many front-end VME readout crates. The simplicity and partitionability of the new system greatly eases the debugging and diagnosing process. As a result, the new system improves throughput by about a factor of three compared to the old system, up to 800 megabits per second, and has proven robust and reliable in the current run.},

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