New Data Acquisition Capabilities for the Heavy Ion Accelerator Facility

The Heavy Ion Accelerator Facility supports a wide range of high quality research in pure and applied nuclear physics. This research relies upon multi-parameter data acquisition, in which the pulses from many detectors are recorded event-by-event. By replacing the Facility's obsolescent data acquisition system, this proposal aims to update and expand the capability for conventional analog data taking, to develop new capability for digital data acquisition, and to enable multiple users to take data at the same time. These features will greatly improve research possibilities and productivity for users of the Heavy Ion Accelerator Facility.