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Description
The qualification of new detectors in test beam environments presents a challenging setting that requires stable operation of diverse devices, often employing multiple data acquisition (DAQ) systems running on several machines in a local network. Changes to these setups are frequent, such as using different reference detectors depending on the facility. Managing this complexity necessitates a system capable of controlling the data taking, monitoring the experimental setup, facilitating seamless configuration, and easy integration of new devices.
Constellation is a flexible control and data acquisition framework developed with the requirements of laboratory and test beam environments in mind. It has been in development for the last two years and now considered ready for use in real-world measurements.
Over the last year, several test beam campaigns have taken place where Constellation was used. In this contribution a selection of those setups are presented, highlighting Constellation's features and quality-of-life improvements over existing solutions along the way.