Published February 2012 | Version v1
Journal article

A VME-based data acquisition system for nuclear physics and detector laboratories

  • 1. Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing (China)

Description

In this paper,we report a laboratory DAQ system based on VME bus, for applications in nuclear physics and the detector tests. It uses a commercial ADC card and a single board computer as a crate controller. They are based on the VME bus.The software is based on the ROOT framework. A canvas window is employed for online monitoring, and the acquired data are stored as Histograms in a ROOT file. The data acquisition speed can rea MB/s. A spectrum of 241Am 59 keV γ-ray collected with a CdZnTe detector is shown to demonstrate the system. (authors)

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Nuclear Techniques
Journal Volume
35
Journal Issue
2
Journal Page Range
p. 131-134
ISSN
0253-3219

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Notes
5 figs., 6 refs.