Abstract
The n_TOF facility at CERN has been designed for the measurement of neutron capture, fission and (n, xn) cross-sections with high accuracy. This requires a flexible and-due to the high instantaneous neutron flux-almost dead time free data acquisition system. A scalable and versatile data solution has been designed based on 8-bit flash-ADCs with sampling rates up to 2 GHz and 8 Mbyte memory buffer. The software is written in C and C++ and is running on PCs equipped with RedHat Linux. (C) 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 692-702 |
Number of pages | 11 |
Journal | Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment |
Volume | 538 |
Issue number | 1-3 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 11 Feb 2005 |
Keywords
- flash-ADC
- data acquisition
- neutron time-of-flight spectroscopy
- pulse shape analysis