The IceCube data acquisition system: Signal capture, digitization, and timestamping

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“…Each DOM [10] consists of a 10" Hamamatsu photomultiplier tube (PMT) [11] and electronic circuitry, contained inside a 33 cm glass pressure sphere, as shown in Fig. 10 a.…”

Section: Digital Optical Module (Dom)mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…A detailed description of the Digital Optical Modules can be found in [10]. Some characteristic parameters for the IceTop DOM operation are summarized in Table 4.…”

Section: Digital Optical Module (Dom)mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The fourth channel is not used for regular data taking but, depending on the running mode, other information can be recorded using a multiplexer (MUX in Fig. 10 b), see details in [10]. To minimize dead-time, each DOM is equipped with two ATWD chips which are used alternately.…”

Section: Signal Capture and Digitizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…How much information a hit contains when being transferred to the IceCube Lab, is determined by the operation modes for the readout of DOMs. Two different modes were foreseen for IceCube [10]:…”

Section: Dom Launchmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The baseline-operation of IceCube is the SLC mode [10] which, however, was not applied before 2009. For IceTop the standard SLC mode has been modified so that the ATWD digitization is not aborted if there is no LC tag because the integrated ATWD charge is always transmitted in the SLC mode (for in-ice DOMs only fADC information is used for the SLC transmission so that the ATWD digitization can be aborted if there is no LC tag).…”

Section: Dom Launchmentioning

confidence: 99%

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IceTop: The surface component of IceCube

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IceTop, the surface component of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole, is an air shower array with an area of 1 km 2 . The detector allows a detailed exploration of the mass composition of primary cosmic rays in the energy range from about 100 TeV to 1 EeV by exploiting the correlation between the shower energy measured in IceTop and the energy deposited by muons in the deep ice. In this paper we report on the technical design, construction and installation, the trigger and data acquisition systems as well as the software framework for calibration, reconstruction and simulation. Finally the first experience from commissioning and operating the detector and the performance as an air shower detector will be discussed.

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“…Each DOM [10] consists of a 10" Hamamatsu photomultiplier tube (PMT) [11] and electronic circuitry, contained inside a 33 cm glass pressure sphere, as shown in Fig. 10 a.…”

Section: Digital Optical Module (Dom)mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…A detailed description of the Digital Optical Modules can be found in [10]. Some characteristic parameters for the IceTop DOM operation are summarized in Table 4.…”

Section: Digital Optical Module (Dom)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Signal Capture and Digitizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Dom Launchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Dom Launchmentioning

confidence: 99%

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