SiPM-based beam Monitor (SiMon)
- Single row of Hamamatsu photosensors
- Covered by plastic scintillator pills
- Moved through beam by stepper motor
- Record rate per sensor
- 2D beam profile
- Record pulses
- Position-sensitive particle identification via energy and timing
High-availability data acqusition system based on Proxmox Virtual Environment
- Two identical high-performance workstations
- Full redundancy with maximum failover time and data loss < 1h
- Data acquisition and online analysis on separate virtual machines
- Isolate data analysis from data taking
- Reanalysis of entire beamtime dataset < 1h for rapid input on data-taking strategy
- Use for simulations and data analysis between beamtimes
- High flexibility without further hardware investment
- Rapid prototyping
- Personalised machines for students
- Low-level hardware access (e.g. digitiser link and USB) possible from virtual machines
