19–24 May 2024
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SoC based time-resolved scaler DAQ and amplifier-discriminator upgrade for laser spectroscopy

TUPC47
21 May 2024, 16:00
2h
Country (MCC Exhibit Hall A)

Country

MCC Exhibit Hall A

Poster Presentation MC1.A21 Secondary Beams Tuesday Poster Session

Speaker

Shriraj Kunjir (Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, Michigan State University)

Description

The BEam COoler and LAser spectroscopy (BECOLA) is a collinear laser spectroscopy facility at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) at Michigan State University. Time resolved laser spectroscopy experiments are performed here to study the nuclear structure of radioactive isotopes. The current data acquisition (DAQ) system being used is based on AMD Spartan 6 field programmable gate array (FPGA) and has a time resolution of 8 ns. There was a need to upgrade existing hardware to meet the requirements for higher time resolution of fast ion detectors. A new DAQ system with AMD Zynq System on Chip (SoC) FPGA based time-resolved scaler was designed, developed and fabricated. It achieves a time resolution of 2 ns. The current amplifier-discriminator has an output pulse resolution of 10 ns. To address this constraint and fully leverage the 2 ns time resolution provided by the new SoC FPGA, a new AD with an output pulse resolution of 1 ns was designed. A brief overview of the upgraded DAQ system will be discussed in this paper, including its features, improvements and future updates.

Funding Agency

This work is supported in part by the National Science Foundation, Grant No. PHY-21-111815.

Region represented North America
Paper preparation format Word

Primary author

Shriraj Kunjir (Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, Michigan State University)

Co-authors

Dan Morris (Facility for Rare Isotope Beams) Enrique Bernal (Facility for Rare Isotope Beams) Kei Minamisono (Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, Michigan State University) Shen Zhao (Facility for Rare Isotope Beams)

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