Conveners
Hardware & Software Developments 2
- Tommaso Chiarusi (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
The White Rabbit protocol (WR), developed at CERN for the distribution of sub-nanosecond timing to thousands of nodes distributed over large geographic areas, is becoming increasingly
reliable and is being utilized in various contexts, notably in modern multi-messenger astronomy experiments in progress such as KM3NeT, CTAO and ET.
Currently, WR supports connectivity with 1 Gb/s Ethernet,...
Silicon Photomultipliers (SiPMs), an array of Single Photon Avalanche photodiodes (SPADs) connected in parallel, are a promising technology for space missions for their high gain, compactness, low bias operating range, insensitivity to magnetic fields and low cost. It is of general interest to study the effect of radiation damage on a SiPM. Here, we report the effect of the irradiation with...
The China Seismo-Electromagnetic Satellite (CSES) space mission foresees a constellation of satellites devoted to the study of plasma, electromagnetic fields and particles perturbations potentially correlated with the occurrence of seismic events.
Like the first satellite, launched in February 2018, CSES-02 hosts several payloads, among which the Italian High Energy Particle Detector...
NUSES is a new space mission aiming to test innovative observational and technological approaches related to the study of low energy cosmic and gamma rays, high energy astrophysical neutrinos, Sun-Earth environment, Space weather and magnetosphere-ionosphere-lithosphere coupling (MILC). The satellite will host two payloads: Terzina and Zirè.
Zirè will perform measurements of electrons,...
The KM3NeT experiment is composed of two underwater large-scale neutrino telescopes currently under construction and located in the Mediterranean Sea, namely ARCA and ORCA, mostly designed for studying cosmic neutrinos and neutrino properties respectively. The two KM3NeT detectors share a common modular Data Acquisition System, which is designed to be scalable with the size of the detectors....
KM3NeT is a deep-sea research infrastructure under construction in the Mediterranean Sea. It consists of two water-Cherenkov neutrino telescopes: ARCA (Italy), designed to identify and study TeV-PeV astrophysical neutrino sources, and ORCA (France), aiming at studying the intrinsic properties of neutrinos in the few-GeV range. KM3NeT is sensitive also to neutrinos emitted in the MeV range by...
APEIRON is a framework encompassing the general architecture of a distributed heterogeneous processing platform and the corresponding software stack, from the low level device drivers up to the high level programming model.
The framework is designed to be efficiently used for studying, prototyping and deploying smart trigger and data acquisition (TDAQ) systems for physics experiments.
The...
Only the less deflected cosmic rays point back to their origin and allow astronomical observations. Therefore, the key to identifying the sources of the highest energetic cosmic rays is to measure their mass on an event-by-event basis. Equally, the shower development at the extreme energies is still puzzling, like the muon deficit in extensive air-shower simulations, pointing to a lack of...
