PT Journal
AU Ahlburg, Pea
   Marinas, C
TI EUDAQ – a data acquisition software framework for common beam telescopes
SO Journal of Instrumentation
JI J. Instrum.
PY 2020
BP P01038 - 30pp
VL 15
IS 1
DI 10.1088/1748-0221/15/01/P01038
LA English
DE Data acquisition concepts; Detector control systems (detector and experiment monitoring and slow-control systems; architecture; hardware; algorithms; databases); Particle tracking detectors; Calorimeters
AB EUDAQ is a generic data acquisition software developed for use in conjunction with common beam telescopes at charged particle beam lines. Providing high-precision reference tracks for performance studies of new sensors, beam telescopes are essential for the research and development towards future detectors for high-energy physics. As beam time is a highly limited resource, EUDAQ has been designed with reliability and ease-of-use in mind. It enables flexible integration of different independent devices under test via their specific data acquisition systems into a top-level framework. EUDAQ controls all components globally, handles the data flow centrally and synchronises and records the data streams. Over the past decade, EUDAQ has been deployed as part of a wide range of successful test beam campaigns and detector development applications.
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