[HN Gopher] Now streaming: nuclear physics
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       Now streaming: nuclear physics
        
       Author : geox
       Score  : 14 points
       Date   : 2023-11-24 14:10 UTC (8 hours ago)
        
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       | 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
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       | > 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
        
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