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| Title | Deployment of ADTimePix3 areaDetector Driver at Neutron and X-ray User Facilities | |
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| Abstract | TimePix3 is a 65k hybrid pixel readout chip with simultaneous Time-of-Arrival (ToA) and Time-over-Threshold (ToT) recording in each pixel*. The chip operates without a trigger signal with a sparse readout where only pixels containing events are read out. The flexible architecture allows 40 MHits/s/cm² readout throughput, using simultaneous readout and acquisition by sharing readout logic with transport logic of superpixel matrix formed using 2x4 structure. The chip ToA records 1.5625 ns time resolution. The X-ray and charged particle events are counted directly. However, indirect neutron counts use 6Li fission in a scintillator matrix, such as ZnS(Ag). The fission space-charge region is limited to 5-9 um. A photon from scintillator material excites a photocathode electron, which is further multiplied in dual-stack MCP. The neutron count event is a cluster of electron events at the chip. We report on the EPICS areaDetector** ADTimePix3 driver that controls Serval*** using json commands. The driver directs data to storage and to a real-time processing pipeline and configures the chip. The time-stamped data are stored in raw .tpx3 file format and passed through a socket where the clustering software identifies individual neutron events. The conventional 2D images are available as images for each exposure frame, and a preview is useful for sample alignment. The areaDetector driver allows integration of time-enhanced capabilities of this detector into SNS beamlines controls and unprecedented time resolution. | |
| Footnotes & References | *T Poikela et al 2014 JINST 9 C05013. **https://github.com/areaDetector ***Software provided by the vendor (ASI) that interfaces detector (10GE) and EPICS data acquisition ioc ADTimePix3 |
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| Funding | This work was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Scientific User Facilities Division under Contract No. DE-AC05-00OR22725. | |
| Paper | download MO2AO05.PDF [0.898 MB / 5 pages] | |
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| Conference | ICALEPCS2023 | |
| Series | International Conference on Accelerator and Large Experimental Physics Control Systems (19th) | |
| Location | Cape Town, South Africa | |
| Date | 09-13 October 2023 | |
| Publisher | JACoW Publishing, Geneva, Switzerland | |
| Editorial Board | Volker RW Schaa (GSI, Darmstadt, Germany); Andy Götz (ESRF, Grenoble, France); Johan Venter (SARAO, Cape Town, South Africa); Karen White (SNS, Oak Ridge, TN, USA); Marie Robichon (ESRF, Grenoble, France); Vivienne Rowland (SARAO, Cape Town, South Africa) | |
| Online ISBN | 978-3-95450-238-7 | |
| Online ISSN | 2226-0358 | |
| Received | 04 October 2023 | |
| Revised | 08 October 2023 | |
| Accepted | 13 October 2023 | |
| Issued/td> | 28 October 2023 | |
| DOI | doi:10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2023-MO2AO05 | |
| Pages | 90-94 | |
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