NDLI: The Data Acquisition System of the MAGIC-II Telescope

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Bitossi, M. Cecchi, R. Paoletti, R. Pegna, R. Turini, N. Barcelo, M. Illa, J.M.
Copyright Year	2007
Description	Author affiliation: I.N.F.N. Pisa, Pisa (Bitossi, M.)
Abstract	The MAGIC telescope is the world's largest gamma ray telescope, designed to look at the light emitted by air shower by Cherenkov effect. It is operating since 2004 at the Roque de Los Muchachos observatory, La Palma, Canary islands. MAGIC-II is the upgrade of the project, consisting of a twin telescope frame with innovative features like new photon detectors to lower the threshold energy further and an ultrafast signal sampling to reduce the effect of the diffuse night sky background. The new acquisition system is based upon a low power analog sampler (Domino Ring Sampler) with frequency ranging from 1.5 to 4.5 GHz and data are digitized with a 12 bit resolution ADC. The analog sampler, originally designed for the MEG experiment, has been successfully tested on site and showed a very good linearity and single photon discrimination capability. Data management are performed by 9U VME digital boards called PULSAR (PULser And Recorder) which handle the data compression and reformatting as well. Every board has 80 analog channels plus auxiliary digital signals for trigger and monitor purposes. For a kHz trigger rate and a 2 GHz frequency sampling, the data throughput can be as high as 100 MB/s thus being a challenge for modern data transmission and storage solutions. The data are transferred to PCI memory via Gbit optical links using the CERN S-Link protocol and to the mass storage system. The Data Acquisition system design and performance are described in detail.
Starting Page	60
Ending Page	62
File Size	259322
Page Count	3
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781424413478
DOI	10.1109/IDAACS.2007.4488373
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2007-09-06
Publisher Place	Germany
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Data acquisition Telescopes Frequency Optical design Observatories Detectors Signal sampling Energy resolution Signal resolution Testing Electronics Front-End Data Acquisition Data Handling Data Readout PULSAR Board
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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1	Ministry of Education (GoI), Department of Higher Education	Sanctioning Authority	https://www.education.gov.in/ict-initiatives
2	Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	Host Institute of the Project: The host institute of the project is responsible for providing infrastructure support and hosting the project	https://www.iitkgp.ac.in
3	National Digital Library of India Office, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	The administrative and infrastructural headquarters of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in
4	Project PI / Joint PI	Principal Investigator and Joint Principal Investigators of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in Prof. Saswat Chakrabarti will be added soon
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