Abstract
The NOvA experiment uses a continuous, free-running, dead-timeless data acquisition system to collect data from the 14 kT far detector. The DAQ system readouts the more than 344,000 detector channels and assembles the information into an raw unfiltered high bandwidth data stream. The NOvA trigger systems operate in parallel to the readout and asynchronously to the primary DAQ readout/event building chain. The data driven triggering systems for NOvA are unique in that they examine long contiguous time windows of the high resolution readout data and enable the detector to be sensitive to a wide range of physics interactions from those with fast, nanosecond scale signals up to processes with long delayed coincidences between hits which occur at the tens of milliseconds time scale. The trigger system is able to achieve a true 100% live time for the detector, making it sensitive to both beam spill related and off-spill physics.
Original language | English (US) |
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Article number | 082041 |
Journal | Journal of Physics: Conference Series |
Volume | 664 |
Issue number | 8 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2015 |
Event | 21st International Conference on Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics, CHEP 2015 - Okinawa, Japan Duration: Apr 13 2015 → Apr 17 2015 |
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