Development of a data acquisition system for the custom front-end prototypes of the PANDA Micro Vertex Detector and study of the reaction $\overline{p}p$ → Ξ${}^{-}$${\overline{\Xi }}^{+}$ π${}^{+}$π${}^{-}$

The PANDA experiment will contribute to the understanding of fundamental questions of Quantum Chromodynamics by exploiting a high quality antiproton beam provided at FAIR. The subdetector closest to the interaction point, needed to precisely reconstruct primary and secondary vertices of the interaction, is the Micro Vertex Detector. It is equipped with silicon pixel and strip sensors and custom front-end electronics to readout their data. This thesis describes the contribution to the development of a data acquisition system for the verification of the custom front-end prototypes and its use to assess the performance of the first strip front-end chip prototype, called PASTA. In addition, it reports on the possibility to study the reaction $\overline{p}p$ → Ξ${}^{-}$${\overline{\Xi }}^{+}$ π${}^{+}$π${}^{-}$ with PANDA's software framework.