21–26 Jun 2026
U. Ottawa - Learning Crossroads (CRX) Building
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The ARGO detector readout and DAQ

23 Jun 2026, 11:15
15m
U. Ottawa - Learning Crossroads (CRX) Building

U. Ottawa - Learning Crossroads (CRX) Building

100 Louis-Pasteur Private, Ottawa, ON K1N 9N3
Oral (Non-Student) / Orale (non-étudiant(e)) Applied Physics and Instrumentation / Physique appliquée et de l'instrumentation (DAPI / DPAI) (DAPI) T1-1 | (DPAI)

Speaker

Prof. Audrey Corbeil Therrien (Université de Sherbrooke)

Description

Physicists continue to invest significant effort in the search for dark matter using increasingly large and sensitive detectors. ARGO is a next generation experiment in conceptual development designed to push sensitivity through advanced photodetection and large-scale instrumentation. The detection medium is a ~400-tonne mass of low-background argon inside an acrylic vessel. To capture the scintillation light, the 200 m$^2$ outer surface will be covered in Single Photon Avalanche Diodes (SPAD) with a digital readout. The high potential granularity (mm-scale) of SPAD arrays results in channels numbering in the millions, requiring a new approach for the readout and data acquisition. We will present a data acquisition architecture exploiting distributed real-time artificial intelligence to identify signals of interest and extract the relevant properties, such as position, energy and probable particle type.

Keyword-1 Data acquisition system
Keyword-2 Dark matter
Keyword-3 Edge Machine Learning

Author

Prof. Audrey Corbeil Therrien (Université de Sherbrooke)

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