Speaker
Description
The Pacific Ocean Neutrino Experiment (P-ONE) is a planned cubic kilometer neutrino observatory located in the northern Pacific Ocean off the coast of British Columbia, CA. The goal of P-ONE is to detect high-energy astrophysical neutrinos and pinpoint their sources by reconstructing their paths through the detector. P-ONE will consist of ~70 1 km long strings spaced 80 m apart. Each string will be instrumented with evenly spaced modules containing photomultiplier tubes (PMTs) to detect Cherenkov radiation from neutrino interactions in the water. To achieve the goals of path reconstruction and particle identification, the data acquisition system is designed to aim for precision timing (100 ps or better) of multiple photons per PMT. This is done using custom on-module hardware, precision timing distribution throughout the detector, and robust data collection software to handle a non-trivial raw data rate of 100 Tbit/s. This talk will focus on the design and testing of the P-ONE data acquisition system.
