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 language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Article number | 7898875 |
| Pages (from-to) | 1338-1345 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| Journal | IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science |
| Volume | 64 |
| Issue number | 6 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jun 2017 |
| Externally published | Yes |
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)