The Data Acquisition System of the KOTO Experiment and the RCE Platform Technology Upgrade

Stephanie Su, Jon Ameel, Jacqueline Beechert, Myron Campbell, Carolyn Gee, Margaret Huff, Jessica Micallef, Joshua Robinson, Christopher Rymph, Hanna Schamis, Molly Taylor, Monica Tecchio, Nikola Whallon, Jia Xu, Yasuyuki Sugiyama, Yasuhisa Tajima, Mircea Bogdan, Yau Wah

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Abstract

The KOTO experiment at J-PARC, Japan, aims to observe the rare neutral kaon decay mode KL→π0vv. After the first experimental run in May 2013 at a 24-kW beam power, the KOTO data acquisition (DAQ) system was upgraded in 2015 to provide efficient and reliable data collection at higher beam intensities. Lossless data compression in the analog-To-digital converter modules was implemented to reduce the size of data packets, resulting in a threefold increase in data collection rate. A new software trigger on a 47-node cluster was designed to use Infiniband hardware with message passing interface protocol to establish a mesh network inside the computer clusters for parallel data processing. The upgrade to the KOTO DAQ system was commissioned in 2015 and successfully collected data with a beam intensity of up to 42 kW. In preparation for increasing beam intensities in future runs, the hardware trigger upgrades using the reconfigurable clustering element platform technology are under development.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number7898875
Pages (from-to)1338-1345
Number of pages8
JournalIEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science
Volume64
Issue number6
DOIs
StatePublished - Jun 2017
Externally publishedYes

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Nuclear and High Energy Physics
  • Nuclear Energy and Engineering
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Keywords

  • Compression algorithm
  • CP violation
  • data acquisition (DAQ) system
  • event building
  • flash analog-To-digital converter (FADC)
  • Infiniband
  • message passing interface (MPI) protocol
  • RCE
  • reconfigurable clustering element (RCE) platform technology (RPT)

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