Title :
The COMPASS event store
Author :
Duic, Venicio ; Frolov, Vladimir ; Fuchs, Ulrich ; Gobbo, Benigno ; Lamanna, Massimo ; Martin, Anna ; Nowak, Marcin
Author_Institution :
Inst. Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Trieste, Italy
Abstract :
COMPASS, the fixed-target experiment at CERN studying the structure of the nucleon and spectroscopy, has collected over 500 TB during 2002 and 2003 runs. At the beginning of the experiment these data together with the reconstructed events information were put in a database infrastructure based on Objectivity/DB and on the hierarchical storage manager CASTOR. Starting from 2003 Oracle has been adopted as the database technology. The experience in the usage of the databases is reviewed, and the evolution of the system outlined.
Keywords :
data acquisition; database management systems; high energy physics instrumentation computing; muon detection; particle spectrometers; position sensitive particle detectors; CERN; COMPASS event store; Oracle; common muon proton apparatus for structure and spectroscopy; database infrastructure; database management systems; elementary particles; hierarchical storage manager CASTOR; high-energy data stores; high-energy physics; nucleon spectroscopy; nucleon structure; reconstructed events information; review; Algorithm design and analysis; Collaborative software; Data acquisition; Database systems; Elementary particles; Mass spectroscopy; Mesons; Physics; Protons; Spatial databases;
Journal_Title :
Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TNS.2004.832645
