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| Title | The Tilecal/ATLAS detector control system |
| Author(s) | Tomasio Pina, João Antonio |
| Affiliation | (Laboratorio de Instrumentacao e Fisica Exp de Particulas, Univ de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal) |
| Publication | 2004 |
| In: | 51st Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, Rome, Italy, 16 - 22 Oct 2004, pp.1201-1204 (v.2) |
| Subject category | Detectors and Experimental Techniques |
| Accelerator/Facility, Experiment | CERN LHC ; ATLAS |
| Abstract | Tilecal is the barrel hadronic calorimeter of the ATLAS detector that is presently being built at CERN to operate at the LHC accelerator. The main task of the Tilecal detector control system (DCS) is to enable the coherent and safe operation of the detector. All actions initiated by the operator and all errors, warnings, and alarms concerning the hardware of the detector are handled by DCS. The DCS has to continuously monitor all operational parameters, give warnings and alarms concerning the hardware of the detector. The DCS architecture consists of a distributed back-end (BE) system running on PC's and different front-end (FE) systems. The implementation of the BE will he achieved with a commercial supervisory control and data acquisition system (SCADA) and the FE instrumentation will consist on a wide variety of equipment. The connection between the FE and BE is provided by fieldbus or L |