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 Advances in Low Background Detector Design | Progrès dans la conception de détecteurs à faible bruit de fond (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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