Building Data Acquisition Systems for Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay Detection

The discovery of neutrinoless double-beta decay would profoundly change our understanding of fundamental physics and the evolution of the universe. The upgrade to the successful CUORE experiment CUORE Upgrade with Particle ID (CUPID) is searching for this process in 100Mo using scintillating bolometers, necessitating work surrounding the acquisition and treatment of vast amounts of data. Developing the DAQ for CUPID focused on three aspects: managing memory for data retrieval, formating packets, and interfacing with the memory buffer, in addition to creating a testbed. The second portion of the DAQ involved building three classes, which splice incoming data and format them using ROOT6 and the anticipated ROOT7 frameworks. The successful containment of this data enables analysis of samples for neutrinoless double beta decay, a theorized phenomenon that would rewrite the Standard Model.