Detector control system for the ATLAS Transition Radiation Tracker: architecture and development techniques

Elżbieta Banaś; Zbigniew Hajduk; Jolanta Olszowska

doi:10.1117/12.2000242

7 November 2012 Detector control system for the ATLAS Transition Radiation Tracker: architecture and development techniques

Elżbieta Banaś, Zbigniew Hajduk, Jolanta Olszowska

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Proceedings Volume 8454, Photonics Applications in Astronomy, Communications, Industry, and High-Energy Physics Experiments 2012; 84540L (2012) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2000242
Event: Photonics Applications in Astronomy, Communications, Industry, and High-Energy Physics Experiments 2012, 2012, Wilga, Poland

Abstract

The ATLAS Transition Radiation Tracker (TRT) is the outermost of the three sub-systems of the ATLAS Inner Detector at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. With ~300000 drift tube proportional counters (straws) filled with stable gas mixture and high voltage biased it provides precise quasi-continuous tracking and particles identification. Safe, coherent and efficient operation of the TRT is fulfilled with the help of the Detector Control System (DCS) running on 11 computers as PVSS (industrial SCADA) projects. Standard industrial and custom developed server applications and protocols are used for reading hardware parameters. Higher level control system layers based on the CERN JCOP framework allow for automatic control procedures, efficient error recognition and handling and provide a synchronization mechanism with the ATLAS data acquisition system. Different data bases are used to store the detector online parameters, the configuration parameters and replicate a subset of them used to flag data quality for physics reconstruction. The TRT DCS is fully integrated with the ATLAS Detector Control System.

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Elżbieta Banaś, Zbigniew Hajduk, and Jolanta Olszowska "Detector control system for the ATLAS Transition Radiation Tracker: architecture and development techniques", Proc. SPIE 8454, Photonics Applications in Astronomy, Communications, Industry, and High-Energy Physics Experiments 2012, 84540L (7 November 2012); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2000242

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