Time Protocol-based timing system for time-of-flight instruments

摘要

Presented herein are systems, methods, and computer-readable media for recording event times in particle detection scenarios. The system or the like includes identifying one equipment device as a grand master clock from at least two equipment devices in the equipment device setting. Each equipment device includes a beam monitor, a neutron measuring instrument, a neutron chopper, a nuclear reactor, Selected from a set of equipment types including particle accelerators, network routers, and user workstations. The system, method, and computer-readable medium also synchronizes the clock component with the grandmaster clock and, upon detecting an event, reads an absolute event time stamp that is independent of the event time of other events from the clock component of the selected equipment. Configuring the equipment to store a record of equipment events and absolute event time stamps in the data store. [Selection] Figure 1