Sudbury Neutrino Observatory neutral current detector acquisition software overview

Author

Howe, Mark A. ; Cox, G.A. ; Harvey, P.J. ; McGirt, F. ; Rielage, K. ; Wilkerson, J.F. ; Wouters, J.M.

Author_Institution

Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA

Volume

1

fYear

2003

fDate

19-25 Oct. 2003

Firstpage

169

Abstract

The Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO) begins a new phase of operation in the autumn of 2003 with the installation of the Neutral Current Detector (NCD). This paper focuses mainly on the Object-oriented Real-time Control and Acquisition (ORCA) software that is the framework for the data acquisition system of the NCD array. Particular emphasis is given to the general purpose nature of ORCA and the manner in which it provides generic object-oriented software modules that can be configured and connected together at run-time to build general-purpose data acquisition applications. ORCA is the main graphical user interface for the NCD experiment and is used for hardware initialization, run control, data readout, and data shipping.

Keywords

cosmic ray apparatus; cosmic ray neutrinos; data acquisition; neutrino detection; Object-oriented Real-time Control and Acquisition software; Sudbury Neutrino Observatory neutral current detector acquisition software; data readout; data shipping; hardware initialization; run control; Application software; Control systems; Data acquisition; Detectors; Graphical user interfaces; Neutrino sources; Observatories; Phase detection; Real time systems; Runtime;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, 2003 IEEE

ISSN

1082-3654

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8257-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NSSMIC.2003.1352023

Filename

1352023