Commissioning of Miniball: a new digital data acquisition system

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The project was part of the commissioning phase of the Miniball de- tector array at ISOLDE, as a new digital data acquisition was being installed. It consisted in doing offline analyses of real and simulated data to compare with the online output of the new system, in developing an automated calibration procedure for the detectors, and contributing where needed during the commissioning.</td></tr> <tr><td class="formatRecordLabel"> Submitted by </td><td style="padding-left:5px;"><a href="mailto:johannes.sorby.heines@cern.ch">johannes.sorby.heines@cern.ch</a></td></tr> </table> <br/><div><div style="clear: both;"> </div></div> <script type="text/javascript"> // Initially hide: $(".longCaption").hide(); // Allow to toggle visibility: $(".toggleLongCaption").toggle(function(){ $(this).siblings(".longCaption").show('fast'); var thisElem = $(this); thisElem.text(thisElem.text() === "més" ? 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