The data acquisition system of the neutron time-of-flight facility n_TOF at CERN


Abbondanno U., Aerts G., Alvarez F., Alvarez H., Andriamonje S., Andrzejewski J., ...Daha Fazla

NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTS & METHODS IN PHYSICS RESEARCH SECTION A-ACCELERATORS SPECTROMETERS DETECTORS AND ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT, cilt.538, sa.1-3, ss.692-702, 2005 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier

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The n_TOF facility at CERN has been designed for the measurement of neutron capture, fission and (n, xn) cross-sections with high accuracy. This requires a flexible and-due to the high instantaneous neutron flux-almost dead time free data acquisition system. A scalable and versatile data solution has been designed based on 8-bit flash-ADCs with sampling rates up to 2 GHz and 8 Mbyte memory buffer. The software is written in C and C++ and is running on PCs equipped with RedHat Linux. (C) 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.