ALFA detector control system

Author

Seabra, Luis

Author_Institution

Lab. de Instrumentacao e Fis. Exp. de Particulas, Lisbon, Portugal

fYear

2015

fDate

17-19 March 2015

Firstpage

93

Lastpage

98

Abstract

ALFA (Absolute Luminosity For ATLAS) is one of the sub-detectors of ATLAS (A Toroidal LHC Apparatus). The ALFA system is composed by four stations installed in the LHC tunnel 240 m away from the ATLAS interaction point. Each station has a vacuum and ventilation system, movement control and all the required electronics for signal processing. The Detector Control System (DCS) provides control and monitoring of several components and ensures the safe operation of the detector contributing to good Data Quality. This paper describes the ALFA DCS system including a detector overview, operation aspects and hardware control through a SCADA system, WinCC OA.

Keywords

SCADA systems; high energy physics instrumentation computing; physical instrumentation control; scintillation counters; A Toroidal LHC Apparatus; ALFA DCS hardware control; ALFA DCS operation aspects; ALFA DCS system; ALFA detector control system; ALFA detector overview; ATLAS interaction point; ATLAS subdetectors; Absolute Luminosity for ATLAS; Detector Control System; SCADA system; WinCC OA; data quality; movement control; signal processing electronics; vacuum and ventilation system; Detectors; Field programmable gate arrays; Hardware; Large Hadron Collider; Monitoring; Servers; Temperature sensors; ALFA; ATLAS; Detector Control System; Finite State Machine; LHC; WinCC;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Industrial Technology (ICIT), 2015 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Seville

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICIT.2015.7125082

Filename

7125082