[HN Gopher] Now streaming: nuclear physics ___________________________________________________________________ Now streaming: nuclear physics Author : geox Score : 14 points Date : 2023-11-24 14:10 UTC (8 hours ago) (HTM) web link (ascr-discovery.org) (TXT) w3m dump (ascr-discovery.org) | elashri wrote: | I think the title (from JPL author) is not suitable to convey the | message that this piece will talk about triggering and accusation | system for nuclear physics experiments. And I disagree with that | part | | > But turning data collection on and off to capture individual | events requires a trigger, an expensive, complicated piece of | hardware with embedded software that uses specific criteria to | decide when events occur during the run of an experiment. | | Trigger can be easily be fully software based (LHCb from LHC have | that already). And actually this is exactly what JPL, get rid of | hardware triggering (like usually most of the experiments do) and | move it to software based. And because the pile-up is much less | than say LHC experiments (and physics of interest is much | narrowly defined) they could do some real-time analysis on the | data. | | Disclaimer: I'm part of LHCb Collaboration ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2023-11-24 23:00 UTC)