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Implementation and performances of the IPbus protocol for the JUNO Large-PMT readout electronics

Abstract

The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) is a large neutrino detector currently under construction in China. Thanks to the tight requirements on its optical and radio-purity properties, it will be able to perform leading measurements detecting terrestrial and astrophysical neutrinos in a wide energy range from tens of keV to hundreds of MeV. A key requirement for the success of the experiment is an unprecedented 3% energy resolution, guaranteed by its large active mass (20 kton) and the use of more than 20,000 20-inch photo-multiplier tubes (PMTs) acquired by high-speed, high-resolution sampling electronics located very close to the PMTs. As the Front-End and Read-Out electronics is expected to continuously run underwater for 30 years, a reliable readout acquisition system capable of handling the timestamped data stream coming from the Large-PMTs and permitting to simultaneously monitor and operate remotely the inaccessible electronics had to be developed. In this contribution, the firmware and hardware implementation of the IPbus based readout protocol will be presented, together with the performances measured on final modules during the mass production of the electronics.

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Riccardo Triozzi, Andrea Serafini, Marco Bellato, Antonio Bergnoli, Matteo Bolognesi, Riccardo Brugnera, Vanessa Cerrone, Chao Chen, Barbara Clerbaux, Alberto Coppi, Daniele Corti, Flavio dal Corso, Jianmeng Dong, Wei Dou, Lei Fan, Alberto Garfagnini, Arsenii Gavrikov, Guanghua Gong, Marco Grassi, Rosa Maria Guizzetti, Shuang Hang, Cong He, Jun Hu, Roberto Isocrate, Beatrice Jelmini, Xiaolu Ji, Xiaoshan Jiang, Fei Li, Zehong Liang, Ivano Lippi, Hongbang Liu, Hongbin Liu, Shenghui Liu, Xuewei Liu, Daibin Luo, Ronghua Luo, Filippo Marini, Daniele Mazzaro, Luciano Modenese, Marta Colomer Molla, Zhe Ning, Yu Peng, Pierre-Alexandre Petitjean, Alberto Pitacco, Mengyao Qi, Loris Ramina, Mirco Rampazzo, Massimo Rebeschini, Mariia Redchuk, Yunhua Sun, Andrea Triossi, Fabio Veronese, Katharina von Sturm, Peiliang Wang, Peng Wang, Yangfu Wang, Yusheng Wang, Yuyi Wang, Zheng Wang, Ping Wei, Jun Weng, Shishen Xian, Xiaochuan Xie, Benda Xu, Chuang Xu, Donglian Xu, Hai Xu, Xiongbo Yan, Ziyue Yan, Fengfan Yang, Yan Yang, Yifan Yang, Mei Ye, Tingxuan Zeng, Shuihan Zhang, Wei Zhang, Aiqiang Zhang, Bin Zhang, Siyao Zhao, Changge Zi, Sebastiano Aiello, Giuseppe Andronico, Vito Antonelli, Andrea Barresi, Davide Basilico, Marco Beretta, Augusto Brigatti, Riccardo Bruno, Antonio Budano, Barbara Caccianiga, Antonio Cammi, Stefano Campese, Davide Chiesa, Catia Clementi, Marco Cordelli, Stefano Dusini, Andrea Fabbri, Giulietto Felici, Federico Ferraro, Marco Giulio Giammarchi. 2023-02-20. Implementation and performances of the IPbus protocol for the JUNO Large-PMT readout electronics. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2023.168339

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