The Beamline DAQ System for the T2K Experiment

Author

Suzuki, S.Y. ; Sakashita, K. ; Kakuno, H. ; Nakadaira, T. ; Matsuoka, K. ; Kubo, H. ; Hayato, Y.

Author_Institution

Comput. Res. Center (KEK), Tsukuba, Japan

Volume

62

Issue

3

fYear

2015

fDate

Jun-15

Firstpage

1169

Lastpage

1174

Abstract

The T2K (Tokai-to-Kamioka) experiment is a long baseline neutrino experiment designed to observe oscillations from mu neutrinos to electron neutrinos. Through 2013, the system showed stable operation, with 230 kW of beam power and 1.2×10¹⁴ protons per bunch, the highest intensity in the world. This manuscript describes the data acquisition system used to monitor the high-intensity proton beam that produces the neutrino beam. This paper describes the data acquisition system for the monitoring of the primary proton beam and the secondary muon beam.

Keywords

data acquisition; neutrino detection; neutrino oscillations; proton beams; T2K experiment; Tokai-to-Kamioka experiment; beamline DAQ system; data acquisition system; high-intensity proton beam; long baseline neutrino experiment; mu neutrinos-to-electron neutrino oscillations; neutrino beam; power 230 kW; primary proton beam; secondary muon beam; Buildings; Data acquisition; Detectors; Monitoring; Neutrino sources; Particle beams; Structural beams; Data acquisition; event building; neutrinos;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9499

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TNS.2015.2422379

Filename

7102781