Dominic Gaisbauer

• PhD Student at Technical University of Munich

The Unified Communication Framework is an unified network protocol and FPGA core for high speed serial interfaces employed in Data Acquisition systems. It provides up to 64 different communication channels via a single serial link. One channel is reserved for timing and trigger information whereas the other channels can be used for slow control int...

In this paper we present the FPGA-based framework IFDAQ which is used for the development of data acquisition systems for detectors in high energy physics. The framework supports Xilinx FPGA and provides a collection of IP cores written in VHDL which use the common interconnect interface. The IP core library offers functionality required for the de...

The aim of PENeLOPE (Precision Experiment on Neutron Lifetime Operating with Proton Extraction) at the Forschungsreaktor Munchen II is a high-precision measurement of the neutron lifetime and thereby an improvement of the parameter's precision by one order of magnitude. In order to achieve a higher accuracy, modern experiments naturally require sta...

In this paper we present the FPGA-based framework IFDAQ which is used for the development of the data acquisition systems for detectors in high energy physics. The framework supports Xilinx FPGA and provides a collection of the IP cores written in VHDL which use the common interconnect interface. The IP core library offers functionality required fo...

The Unified Communication Framework is a unified network protocol and FPGA firmware for high speed serial interfaces employed in Data Acquisition systems. It provides up to 64 different communication channels via a single serial link. One channel is reserved for timing and trigger information whereas the other channels can be used for slow control...

PENeLOPE is a neutron lifetime measurement developed at the Technische Universität München and located at the Forschungs-Neutronenquelle Heinz Maier-Leibnitz (FRM II) aiming to achieve a precision of 0.1 seconds. The detector for PENeLOPE consists of about 1250 Avalanche Photodiodes (APDs) with a total active area of 1225 cm2. The decay proton dete...

The Antiproton Flux in Space (AFIS) mission will measure the flux of low-energy antiprotons trapped in Earth’s magnetic field. We have developed a new active-target detector concept and have constructed and tested two prototypes. The instrument’s innovative, simple design relies on the stopping of particles in matter due to ionization. It can detec...

Since the first observation of geomagnetically trapped antiprotons by the PAMELA experiment and the new results on the positron excess by the AMS-02 experiment, the creation and transport of antimatter in the Earth’s upper atmosphere attracts more and more attention both at theoretical and experimental side. For this reason the AFIS experiment was...

High-energy cosmic rays interact with Earth’s upper atmosphere and produce antiprotons, which can be trapped in Earth’s magnetic field. The Antiproton Flux in Space (AFIS) Mission will measure the flux of trapped antiprotons with energies less than 100 MeV aboard the nanosatellite MOVE 2. An active-target tracking detector comprised of scintillatin...

The Antiproton Flux in Space experiment (AFIS) is a novel particle detector comprised of silicon photomultipliers and scintillating plastic fibers. Its purpose is to measure the trapped antiproton flux in low Earth orbit. To test the detector and the data acquisition system, a prototype detector will be flown aboard a high altitude research balloon...