The LHCb Run Control System

Author

Alessio, F. ; Callot, O. ; Cardoso, L. ; Franek, B. ; Frank, M. ; Garnier, J.C. ; Gaspar, C. ; Hervijnen, E.v. ; Jacobsson, R. ; Jost, B. ; Neufeld, N. ; Schwemmer, R.

Author_Institution

CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

fYear

2010

fDate

24-28 May 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

LHCb has designed and implemented an integrated Experiment Control System. The Control System uses the same concepts and the same tools to control and monitor all parts of the experiment: the Data Acquisition System, the Detector Control System, etc. LHCb´s Run Control, the main interface used by the experiment´s operator, provides access in a hierarchical, coherent and homogeneous manner to all areas of the experiment and to all its sub-detectors. It allows for automated (or manual) configuration and control, including error recovery, of the full experiment in its different running modes. Different instances of the same Run Control interface are used by the various sub-detectors for their stand-alone activities: test runs, calibration runs, etc. The architecture and the tools used to build the control system, the guidelines and components provided to the developers, as well as the first experience with the usage of the Run Control will be presented.

Keywords

control systems; data acquisition; high energy physics instrumentation computing; system recovery; LHCb run control system; automated configuration; calibration runs; data acquisition system; detector control system; error recovery; integrated experiment control system; run control interface; test runs; Automation; Computer architecture; Control systems; Data acquisition; Detectors; Monitoring; User interfaces;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Real Time Conference (RT), 2010 17th IEEE-NPSS

Conference_Location

Lisbon

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-7108-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RTC.2010.5750363

Filename

5750363