23–27 Sept 2024
Hotel Villa Tuscolana
Europe/Rome timezone

KM3NeT Acquisition Electronics: Status, Upgrades and current developments

26 Sept 2024, 18:09
17m
Sala Clemente

Sala Clemente

Speaker

Diego Real (ific)

Description

The KM3NeT Collaboration is currently building a neutrino observatory in the Mediterranean Sea, deploying thousands of Digital Optical Modules in glass spheres over several cubic kilometers. These modules host acquisition electronics responsible for reading out 31 Photomultiplier Tubes. This contribution offers an overview of KM3NeT's acquisition electronics, emphasizing recent upgrades, ongoing developments, and reliability enhancements. The presentation addresses reliability improvements through theoretical analyses (FIDES method) and practical evaluations (HALT method). Synchronization efforts are also detailed, including current implementation at the Digital Optical Modules and the Detection-Unit Bases to achieve 1 nanosecond precision between nodes.

Primary author

Diego Real (ific)

Co-author

Dr David Calvo (IFIC)

Presentation materials