CIRCUS: an autonomous control system for antimatter, atomic and quantum physics experiments

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2402.04637v1
• Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2024 07:46:42 GMT
• Title: CIRCUS: an autonomous control system for antimatter, atomic and quantum physics experiments
• Authors: Marco Volponi, Saiva Huck, Ruggero Caravita, Jakub Zielinski, Georgy Kornakov, Grzegorz Kasprowicz, Dorota Nowicka, Tassilo Rauschendorfer, Benjamin Rien\"acker, Francesco Prelz, Marcis Auzins, Benedikt Bergmann, Petr Burian, Roberto Sennen Brusa, Antoine Camper, Fabrizio Castelli, Roman Ciury{\l}o, Giovanni Consolati, Michael Doser, Lisa Gl\"oggler, {\L}ukasz Graczykowski, Malgorzata Grosbart, Francesco Guatieri, Nataly Gusakova, Fredrik Gustafsson, Stefan Haider, Malgorzata Janik, Gunn Khatri, {\L}ukasz K{\l}osowski, Valts Krumins, Lidia Lappo, Adam Linek, Jan Malamant, Sebastiano Mariazzi, Luca Penasa, Vojtech Petracek, Mariusz Piwi\'nski, Stanislav Pospisil, Luca Povolo, Sadiqali Rangwala, Bharat Rawat, Volodymyr Rodin, Ole R{\o}hne, Heidi Sandaker, Petr Smolyanskiy, Tomasz Sowi\'nski, Dariusz Tefelski, Theodoros Vafeiadis, Carsten Welsch, Tim Wolz, Michal Zawada, Nicola Zurlo
• Abstract summary: CIRCUS is an autonomous control system optimised for time-critical experiments. It is suitable for strict synchronicity requirements and repeatable, automated operation of experiments. Being experiment-agnostic and released open-source, other experiments can leverage its capabilities.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: A powerful and robust control system is a crucial, often neglected, pillar of any modern, complex physics experiment that requires the management of a multitude of different devices and their precise time synchronisation. The AEgIS collaboration presents CIRCUS, a novel, autonomous control system optimised for time-critical experiments such as those at CERN's Antiproton Decelerator and, more broadly, in atomic and quantum physics research. Its setup is based on Sinara/ARTIQ and TALOS, integrating the ALPACA analysis pipeline, the last two developed entirely in AEgIS. It is suitable for strict synchronicity requirements and repeatable, automated operation of experiments, culminating in autonomous parameter optimisation via feedback from real-time data analysis. CIRCUS has been successfully deployed and tested in AEgIS; being experiment-agnostic and released open-source, other experiments can leverage its capabilities.

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