A Database for Fast Access to Particle-Gated Event Data

Abstract

In nuclear physics experiments involving in-flight fragmentation of ions, usually a large number of different nuclei is produced and various detection systems are employed to identify the species event by event, e.g. by measuring their specific energy loss and time-of-flight. For such cases -- not necessarily limited to nuclear physics -- where subsets of a large dataset can be identified using a small number of measured signals a software for fast access to varying subsets of such a dataset has been developed. The software has been used successfully in the analysis of a one neutron knock-out experiment at GANIL.