Title :
ALFA detector control system
Author_Institution :
Lab. de Instrumentacao e Fis. Exp. de Particulas, Lisbon, Portugal
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;
Conference_Titel :
Industrial Technology (ICIT), 2015 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Seville
DOI :
10.1109/ICIT.2015.7125082
