1. The Data Acquisition System for Phase-III of the BeEST Experiment
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Bray, C., Fretwell, S., Kim, I., Warburton, W. K., Ponce, F., Leach, K. G., Friedrich, S., Abells, R., Amaro, P., Andoche, A., Cantor, R., Diercks, D., Guerra, M., Hall, A., Harris, C., Harris, J., Hayen, L., Hervieux, P. A., Kim, G. B., Lennarz, A., Lordi, V., Machado, J., Machule, P., Marino, A., McKeen, D., Mougeot, X., Ruiz, C., Samanta, A., Santos, J. P., and Stone-Whitehead, C.
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Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors ,Nuclear Experiment ,Quantum Physics - Abstract
The BeEST experiment is a precision laboratory search for physics beyond the standard model that measures the electron capture decay of $^7$Be implanted into superconducting tunnel junction (STJ) detectors. For Phase-III of the experiment, we constructed a continuously sampling data acquisition system to extract pulse shape and timing information from 16 STJ pixels offline. Four additional pixels are read out with a fast list-mode digitizer, and one with a nuclear MCA already used in the earlier limit-setting phases of the experiment. We present the performance of the data acquisition system and discuss the relative advantages of the different digitizers., Comment: 8 pages, 4 figures, proceedings for The 20th International Conference on Low Temperature Detectors
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- 2023