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The distributed Slow Control System of the XENON100 experiment
- Source :
- Journal of Instrumentation, Journal of Instrumentation, IOP Publishing, 2012, 7, pp.T12001. ⟨10.1088/1748-0221/7/12/T12001⟩, Journal of Instrumentation, 7(12):T12001. IOP Publishing Ltd.
- Publication Year :
- 2012
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Abstract
- The XENON100 experiment, in operation at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (LNGS) in Italy, was designed to search for evidence of dark matter interactions inside a volume of liquid xenon using a dual-phase time projection chamber. This paper describes the Slow Control System (SCS) of the experiment with emphasis on the distributed architecture as well as on its modular and expandable nature. The system software was designed according to the rules of Object-Oriented Programming and coded in Java, thus promoting code reusability and maximum flexibility during commissioning of the experiment. The SCS has been continuously monitoring the XENON100 detector since mid 2008, remotely recording hundreds of parameters on a few dozen instruments in real time, and setting emergency alarms for the most important variables.<br />Comment: 12 pages, 4 figures
- Subjects :
- Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
architecture
[PHYS.ASTR.IM]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysic [astro-ph.IM]
Java
Computer science
Real-time computing
FOS: Physical sciences
chemistry.chemical_element
Control and monitor systems online
Control systems
Detector control systems (detector and experiment monitoring and slow-control systems, architecture, hardware, algorithms, databases)
algorithms
01 natural sciences
Xenon
0103 physical sciences
hardware
DETECTOR CONTROL SYSTEMS
[PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det]
CONTROL SYSTEMS
010306 general physics
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
Instrumentation
Mathematical Physics
computer.programming_language
Time projection chamber
010308 nuclear & particles physics
business.industry
Detector control systems (detector and experiment monitoring and slow-control systems
Emphasis (telecommunications)
Volume (computing)
Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
Modular design
[SDU.ASTR.IM]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysic [astro-ph.IM]
chemistry
Control system
Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
databases)
business
computer
System software
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 17480221
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Instrumentation, Journal of Instrumentation, IOP Publishing, 2012, 7, pp.T12001. ⟨10.1088/1748-0221/7/12/T12001⟩, Journal of Instrumentation, 7(12):T12001. IOP Publishing Ltd.
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....79cdf2814e5d17a54f38b37b7adc3fef
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/7/12/T12001⟩