The new generation of LHC accelerator Radiation Monitoring System

Author

Masi, A. ; Spiezia, G. ; Peronnard, P. ; Donze, M. ; Brugger, M. ; Losito, R.

Author_Institution

Eur. Organ. for Nucl. Res., Geneva, Switzerland

fYear

2012

fDate

9-15 June 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

7

Abstract

More than 400 Radiation Monitoring devices are nowadays installed in the LHC tunnel and its adjacent shielded areas to measure radiation effects on the electronics and anticipate possible device degradation. Supported by the experience accumulated in the last years´ operation, a big system upgrade has been prepared. In this paper, the operational architecture of the new detector will be discussed focusing mainly on the advantages provided to the LHC monitoring. The new data acquisition software infrastructure will be detailed referring to the implemented approach to make the management and the maintenance of the entire system easier.

Keywords

data acquisition; high energy physics instrumentation computing; nuclear electronics; position sensitive particle detectors; radiation monitoring; shielding; LHC accelerator tunnel; LHC monitoring; data acquisition software infrastructure; electronics device degradation; operational architecture; radiation effects; radiation monitoring system; shielded areas; system maintenance; system management; Computer architecture; Databases; Detectors; Large Hadron Collider; Logic gates; Monitoring; Software;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Real Time Conference (RT), 2012 18th IEEE-NPSS

Conference_Location

Berkeley, CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1082-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RTC.2012.6418120

Filename

6418120