Design and implementation of the AMIGA embedded system for data acquisition
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2021
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Aab, A.
Abreu, P.
Aglietta, M.
Albury, J.M.
Allekotte, I.
Almela, A.
Alvarez-Muñiz, J.
Alves Batista, R.
Anastasi, G.A.
Anchordoqui, L.
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Journal of Instrumentation, 2021; 16(7):1-34
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The Pierre Auger collaboration, A. Aab, P. Abreu, M. Aglietta, J.M. Albury, I. Allekotte, ... et al.
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The Auger Muon Infill Ground Array (AMIGA) is part of the AugerPrime upgrade of the Pierre Auger Observatory. It consists of particle counters buried 2.3 m underground next to the water-Cherenkov stations that form the 23.5 km2 large infilled array. The reduced distance between detectors in this denser area allows the lowering of the energy threshold for primary cosmic ray reconstruction down to about 1017 eV. At the depth of 2.3 m the electromagnetic component of cosmic ray showers is almost entirely absorbed so that the buried scintillators provide an independent and direct measurement of the air showers muon content. This work describes the design and implementation of the AMIGA embedded system, which provides centralized control, data acquisition and environment monitoring to its detectors. The presented system was firstly tested in the engineering array phase ended in 2017, and lately selected as the final design to be installed in all new detectors of the production phase. The system was proven to be robust and reliable and has worked in a stable manner since its first deployment.
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© 2021 The Author(s). c 2021 The Author(s). Published by IOP Publishing Ltd on behalf of Sissa Medialab. Original content from this work may be used under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. Any further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the title of the work, journal citation and DOI.