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The continuous readout stream of the MicroBooNE liquid argon time projection chamber for detection of supernova burst neutrinos
P. Abratenko35, M. Alrashed15, R. An14, J. Anthony4, J. Asaadi34, A. Ashkenazi19, S. Balasubramanian38, B. Baller11, C. Barnes20, G. Barr24, V. Basque18, L. Bathe-Peters13, O. Benevides Rodrigues31, S. Berkman11, A. Bhanderi18, A. Bhat31, M. Bishai2, A. Blake16, T. Bolton15, L. Camilleri9, D. Caratelli11, I. Caro Terrazas8, R. Castillo Fernandez11, F. Cavanna11, G. Cerati11, Y. Chen1, E. Church25, D. Cianci9, E.O. Cohen32, J.M. Conrad19, M. Convery29, L. Cooper-Troendle38, J.I. Crespo-Anadón9, M. Del Tutto11, D. Devitt16, R. Diurba21, L. Domine29, R. Dorrill14, K. Duffy11, S. Dytman26, B. Eberly10, A. Ereditato1, L. Escudero Sanchez4, J.J. Evans18, A.A. Fadeeva9, G.A. Fiorentini Aguirre30, R.S. Fitzpatrick20, B.T. Fleming38, N. Foppiani13, D. Franco38, A.P. Furmanski21, D. Garcia-Gamez12, S. Gardiner11, S. Gollapinni17,33, O. Goodwin18, E. Gramellini11, P. Green18, H. Greenlee11, L. Gu36, W. Gu2, R. Guenette13, P. Guzowski18, E. Hall19, P. Hamilton31, O. Hen19, G.A. Horton-Smith15, A. Hourlier19, E.-C. Huang17, R. Itay29, C. James11, J. Jan de Vries4, X. Ji2, L. Jiang36, J.H. Jo38, R.A. Johnson7, Y.-J. Jwa9, N. Kamp19, G. Karagiorgi9, W. Ketchum11, B. Kirby2, M. Kirby11, T. Kobilarcik11, I. Kreslo1, R. LaZur8, I. Lepetic14, K. Li38, Y. Li2, B.R. Littlejohn14, D. Lorca1, W.C. Louis17, X. Luo3, A. Marchionni11, S. Marcocci11, C. Mariani36, D. Marsden18, J. Marshall37, J. Martin-Albo13, D.A. Martinez Caicedo30, K. Mason35, A. Mastbaum27, N. McConkey18, V. Meddage15, T. Mettler1, K. Miller6, J. Mills35, K. Mistry18, A. Mogan33, T. Mohayai11, J. Moon19, M. Mooney8, A.F. Moor4, C.D. Moore11, J. Mousseau20, M. Murphy36, D. Naples26, A. Navrer-Agasson18, R.K. Neely15, P. Nienaber28, J. Nowak16, O. Palamara11, V. Paolone26, A. Papadopoulou19, V. Papavassiliou22, S.F. Pate22, A. Paudel15, Z. Pavlovic11, E. Piasetzky32, I.D. Ponce-Pinto9, D. Porzio18, S. Prince13, X. Qian2, J.L. Raaf11, V. Radeka2, A. Rafique15, M. Reggiani-Guzzo18, L. Ren22, L. Rochester29, J. Rodriguez Rondon30, H.E. Rogers5, M. Rosenberg26, M. Ross-Lonergan9, B. Russell38, G. Scanavini38, D.W. Schmitz6, A. Schukraft11, M.H. Shaevitz9, R. Sharankova35, J. Sinclair1, A. Smith4, E.L. Snider11, M. Soderberg31, S. Söldner-Rembold18, P. Spentzouris11, J. Spitz20, M. Stancari11, J. St. John11, T. Strauss11, K. Sutton9, S. Sword-Fehlberg22, A.M. Szelc18, N. Tagg23, W. Tang33, K. Terao29, R.T. Thornton17, C. Thorpe16, M. Toups11, Y.-T. Tsai29, S. Tufanli38, M.A. Uchida4, T. Usher29, W. Van De Pontseele13,24, R.G. Van de Water17, B. Viren2, M. Weber1, H. Wei2, Z. Williams34, S. Wolbers11, T. Wongjirad35, M. Wospakrik11, W. Wu11, T. Yang11, G. Yarbrough33, L.E. Yates19, G.P. Zeller11, J. Zennamo11, C. Zhang2 and (The MicroBooNE collaboration)
The MicroBooNE continuous readout stream is a parallel readout of the MicroBooNE liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) which enables detection of non-beam events such as those from a supernova neutrino burst. The low energies of the supernova neutrinos and the intense cosmic-ray background flux due to the near-surface detector location makes triggering on these events very challenging. Instead, MicroBooNE relies on a delayed trigger generated by SNEWS (the Supernova Early Warning System) for detecting supernova neutrinos. The continuous readout of the LArTPC generates large data volumes, and requires the use of real-time compression algorithms (zero suppression and Huffman compression) implemented in an FPGA (field-programmable gate array) in the readout electronics. We present the results of the optimization of the data reduction algorithms, and their operational performance. To demonstrate the capability of the continuous stream to detect low-energy electrons, a sample of Michel electrons from stopping cosmic-ray muons is reconstructed and compared to a similar sample from the lossless triggered readout stream.