Design and implementation of the AMIGA embedded system for data acquisition
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Data acquisition concepts Particle detectors Detector control systems (detector and experiment monitoring and slow-control systems, architecture, hardware, algorithms, databases) Control and monitor systems on-line
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2021-07-19Referencia bibliográfica
The Pierre Auger collaboration... [et al.] 2021 JINST 16 T07008. [https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/16/07/T07008]
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The Auger Muon Infill Ground Array (AMIGA) is part of the AugerPrime upgrade of
the Pierre Auger Observatory. It consists of particle counters buried 2.3m underground next to the
water-Cherenkov stations that form the 23.5 km2 large infilled array. The reduced distance between
detectors in this denser area allows the lowering of the energy threshold for primary cosmic ray
reconstruction down to about 1017 eV. At the depth of 2.3m the electromagnetic component of
cosmic ray showers is almost entirely absorbed so that the buried scintillators provide an independent
and direct measurement of the air showers muon content. This work describes the design
and implementation of the AMIGA embedded system, which provides centralized control, data
acquisition and environment monitoring to its detectors. The presented system was firstly tested in
the engineering array phase ended in 2017, and lately selected as the final design to be installed in
all new detectors of the production phase. The system was proven to be robust and reliable and has
worked in a stable manner since its first deployment.