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The ATLAS Detector Control System

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S. Schlenker, S. Arfaoui, S. Franz, O. Gutzwiller, C.A. Tsarouchas
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
G. Aielli, F. Marchese
Università di Roma II Tor Vergata, Roma, Italy
G. Arabidze
MSU, East Lansing, Michigan, USA
E. Banaś, Z. Hajduk, J. Olszowska, E. Stanecka
IFJ-PAN, Kraków, Poland
T. Barillari, J. Habring, J. Huber
MPI, Muenchen, Germany
M. Bindi, A. Polini
INFN-Bologna, Bologna, Italy
H. Boterenbrood, R.G.K. Hart
NIKHEF, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
H. Braun, D. Hirschbuehl, S. Kersten, K. Lantzsch
Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Wuppertal, Germany
R. Brenner
Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
D. Caforio, C. Sbarra
Bologna University, Bologna, Italy
S. Chekulaev
TRIUMF, Canada's National Laboratory for Particle and Nuclear Physics, Vancouver, Canada
S. D'Auria
University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom
M. Deliyergiyev, I. Mandić
JSI, Ljubljana, Slovenia
E. Ertel
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Institut für Physik, Mainz, Germany
V. Filimonov, V. Khomutnikov, S. Kovalenko
PNPI, Gatchina, Leningrad District, Russia
V. Grassi
SBU, Stony Brook, New York, USA
J. Hartert, S. Zimmermann
Albert-Ludwig Universität Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
D. Hoffmann
CPPM, Marseille, France
G. Iakovidis, K. Karakostas, S. Leontsinis, E. Mountricha
National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece
P. Lafarguette
Université Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand, France
F. Marques Vinagre, G. Ribeiro, H.F. Santos
LIP, Lisboa, Portugal
T. Martin, P.D. Thompson
Birmingham University, Birmingham, United Kingdom
B. Mindur
AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland
J. Mitrevski
SCIPP, Santa Cruz, California, USA
K. Nagai
University of Tsukuba, Graduate School of Pure and Applied Sciences,, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
S. Nemecek
Czech Republic Academy of Sciences, Institute of Physics, Prague, Czech Republic
D. Oliveira Damazio, A. Poblaguev
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA
P.W. Phillips
STFC/RAL, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon, United Kingdom
A. Robichaud-Veronneau
DPNC, Genève, Switzerland
A. Talyshev
BINP, Novosibirsk, Russia
G.F. Tartarelli
Universita' degli Studi di Milano & INFN, Milano, Italy
B.M. Wynne
Edinburgh University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

The ATLAS experiment is one of the multi-purpose experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), constructed to study elementary particle interactions in collisions of high-energy proton beams. Twelve different sub-detectors as well as the common experimental infrastructure are supervised by the Detector Control System (DCS). The DCS enables equipment supervision of all ATLAS sub-detectors by using a system of 140 server machines running the industrial SCADA product PVSS. This highly distributed system reads, processes and archives of the order of 10⁶ operational parameters. Higher level control system layers based on the CERN JCOP framework allow for automatic control procedures, efficient error recognition and handling, manage the communication with external control systems such as the LHC controls, and provide a synchronization mechanism with the ATLAS physics data acquisition system. A web-based monitoring system allows accessing the DCS operator interface views and browse the conditions data archive worldwide with high availability. This contribution firstly describes the status of the ATLAS DCS and the experience gained during the LHC commissioning and the first physics data taking operation period. Secondly, the future evolution and maintenance constraints for the coming years and the LHC high luminosity upgrades are outlined.

Slides MOBAUST02 [6.379 MB]

MOPMN014

Detector Control System for the ATLAS Muon Spectrometer And Operational Experience After The First Year of LHC Data Taking

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S. Zimmermann
Albert-Ludwig Universität Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
G. Aielli
Università di Roma II Tor Vergata, Roma, Italy
M. Bindi, A. Polini
INFN-Bologna, Bologna, Italy
S. Bressler, E. Kajomovitz, S. Tarem
Technion, Haifa, Israel
R.G.K. Hart
NIKHEF, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
G. Iakovidis, E. Ikarios, K. Karakostas, S. Leontsinis, E. Mountricha
National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece

Muon Reconstruction is a key ingredient in any of the experiments at the Large Hadron Collider LHC. The muon spectrometer of ATLAS comprises Monitored Drift Tube (MDTs) and Cathode Strip Chambers (CSCs) for precision tracking as well as Resistive Plate (RPC) and Thin Gap (TGC) Chambers as muon trigger and for second coordinate measurement. Together with a strong magnetic field provided by a super conducting toroid magnet and an optical alignment system a high precision determination of muon momentum up to the highest particle energies accessible by the LHC collisions is provided. The Detector Control System (DCS) of each muon sub-detector technology must efficiently and safely manage several thousands of LV and HV channels, the front-end electronics initialization as well as monitoring of beam, background, magnetic field and environmental conditions. This contribution will describe the chosen hardware architecture, which as much as possible tries to use common technologies, and the implemented controls hierarchy. In addition the muon DCS human machine interface (HMI) layer and operator tools will be covered. Emphasis will be given to reviewing the experience from the first year of LHC and detector operations, and to lessons learned for future large scale detector control systems. We will also present the automatic procedures put in place during last year and review the improvements gained by them for data taking efficiency. Finally, we will describe the role DCS plays in assessing the quality of data for physics analysis and in online optimization of detector conditions.
On Behalf of the ATLAS Muon Collaboration

Poster MOPMN014 [0.249 MB]

Paper	Title	Page
MOBAUST02	The ATLAS Detector Control System	5
	S. Schlenker, S. Arfaoui, S. Franz, O. Gutzwiller, C.A. Tsarouchas CERN, Geneva, Switzerland G. Aielli, F. Marchese Università di Roma II Tor Vergata, Roma, Italy G. Arabidze MSU, East Lansing, Michigan, USA E. Banaś, Z. Hajduk, J. Olszowska, E. Stanecka IFJ-PAN, Kraków, Poland T. Barillari, J. Habring, J. Huber MPI, Muenchen, Germany M. Bindi, A. Polini INFN-Bologna, Bologna, Italy H. Boterenbrood, R.G.K. Hart NIKHEF, Amsterdam, The Netherlands H. Braun, D. Hirschbuehl, S. Kersten, K. Lantzsch Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Wuppertal, Germany R. Brenner Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden D. Caforio, C. Sbarra Bologna University, Bologna, Italy S. Chekulaev TRIUMF, Canada's National Laboratory for Particle and Nuclear Physics, Vancouver, Canada S. D'Auria University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom M. Deliyergiyev, I. Mandić JSI, Ljubljana, Slovenia E. Ertel Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Institut für Physik, Mainz, Germany V. Filimonov, V. Khomutnikov, S. Kovalenko PNPI, Gatchina, Leningrad District, Russia V. Grassi SBU, Stony Brook, New York, USA J. Hartert, S. Zimmermann Albert-Ludwig Universität Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany D. Hoffmann CPPM, Marseille, France G. Iakovidis, K. Karakostas, S. Leontsinis, E. Mountricha National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece P. Lafarguette Université Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand, France F. Marques Vinagre, G. Ribeiro, H.F. Santos LIP, Lisboa, Portugal T. Martin, P.D. Thompson Birmingham University, Birmingham, United Kingdom B. Mindur AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland J. Mitrevski SCIPP, Santa Cruz, California, USA K. Nagai University of Tsukuba, Graduate School of Pure and Applied Sciences,, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan S. Nemecek Czech Republic Academy of Sciences, Institute of Physics, Prague, Czech Republic D. Oliveira Damazio, A. Poblaguev BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA P.W. Phillips STFC/RAL, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon, United Kingdom A. Robichaud-Veronneau DPNC, Genève, Switzerland A. Talyshev BINP, Novosibirsk, Russia G.F. Tartarelli Universita' degli Studi di Milano & INFN, Milano, Italy B.M. Wynne Edinburgh University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
	The ATLAS experiment is one of the multi-purpose experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), constructed to study elementary particle interactions in collisions of high-energy proton beams. Twelve different sub-detectors as well as the common experimental infrastructure are supervised by the Detector Control System (DCS). The DCS enables equipment supervision of all ATLAS sub-detectors by using a system of 140 server machines running the industrial SCADA product PVSS. This highly distributed system reads, processes and archives of the order of 10⁶ operational parameters. Higher level control system layers based on the CERN JCOP framework allow for automatic control procedures, efficient error recognition and handling, manage the communication with external control systems such as the LHC controls, and provide a synchronization mechanism with the ATLAS physics data acquisition system. A web-based monitoring system allows accessing the DCS operator interface views and browse the conditions data archive worldwide with high availability. This contribution firstly describes the status of the ATLAS DCS and the experience gained during the LHC commissioning and the first physics data taking operation period. Secondly, the future evolution and maintenance constraints for the coming years and the LHC high luminosity upgrades are outlined.
	Slides MOBAUST02 [6.379 MB]

MOPMN014	Detector Control System for the ATLAS Muon Spectrometer And Operational Experience After The First Year of LHC Data Taking	267
	S. Zimmermann Albert-Ludwig Universität Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany G. Aielli Università di Roma II Tor Vergata, Roma, Italy M. Bindi, A. Polini INFN-Bologna, Bologna, Italy S. Bressler, E. Kajomovitz, S. Tarem Technion, Haifa, Israel R.G.K. Hart NIKHEF, Amsterdam, The Netherlands G. Iakovidis, E. Ikarios, K. Karakostas, S. Leontsinis, E. Mountricha National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece
	Muon Reconstruction is a key ingredient in any of the experiments at the Large Hadron Collider LHC. The muon spectrometer of ATLAS comprises Monitored Drift Tube (MDTs) and Cathode Strip Chambers (CSCs) for precision tracking as well as Resistive Plate (RPC) and Thin Gap (TGC) Chambers as muon trigger and for second coordinate measurement. Together with a strong magnetic field provided by a super conducting toroid magnet and an optical alignment system a high precision determination of muon momentum up to the highest particle energies accessible by the LHC collisions is provided. The Detector Control System (DCS) of each muon sub-detector technology must efficiently and safely manage several thousands of LV and HV channels, the front-end electronics initialization as well as monitoring of beam, background, magnetic field and environmental conditions. This contribution will describe the chosen hardware architecture, which as much as possible tries to use common technologies, and the implemented controls hierarchy. In addition the muon DCS human machine interface (HMI) layer and operator tools will be covered. Emphasis will be given to reviewing the experience from the first year of LHC and detector operations, and to lessons learned for future large scale detector control systems. We will also present the automatic procedures put in place during last year and review the improvements gained by them for data taking efficiency. Finally, we will describe the role DCS plays in assessing the quality of data for physics analysis and in online optimization of detector conditions. On Behalf of the ATLAS Muon Collaboration
	Poster MOPMN014 [0.249 MB]