Sudbury neutrino observatory neutral current detector acquisition software overview

Author

Howe, Mark A. ; Cox, G. Adam ; Harvey, Phil J. ; McGirt, Frank ; Rielage, Keith ; Wilkerson, John F. ; Wouters, Jan M.

Author_Institution

Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA

Volume

51

Issue

3

fYear

2004

fDate

6/1/2004 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

878

Lastpage

883

Abstract

The Sudbury Neutrino Observatory begins a new phase of operation in the autumn of 2003 with the installation of the neutral current detectors (NCDs). 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

Cherenkov counters; data acquisition; graphical user interfaces; object-oriented methods; readout electronics; software performance evaluation; software reviews; Cerenkov detector; ORCA software; Sudbury Neutrino Observatory; data acquisition system; data readout; data shipping; graphical user interface; hardware initialization; neutral current detector acquisition software; object-oriented real-time control and acquisition software; review; run control; Application software; Control systems; Data acquisition; Detectors; Graphical user interfaces; Neutrino sources; Observatories; Phase detection; Real time systems; Runtime; Data acquisition; detectors; neutrinos; software;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9499

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TNS.2004.829527

Filename

1311985