Design and Implementation of Detector Control System for Muon Forward Tracker at ALICE

K. Yamakawa , A. Augustinus , Guillaume Batigne (1) , P. Chochula , M. Oya , S. Panebianco (2) , O. Pinazza , K. Shigaki , R. Tieulent (3) , Y. Yamaguchi

1 SUBATECH - Laboratoire de physique subatomique et des technologies associées
2 DPHN - Département de Physique Nucléaire (ex SPhN)
3 IPNL - Institut de Physique Nucléaire de Lyon

ALICE is the experiment at the CERN LHC devoted to study heavy-ion collisions. An upgrade program of the ALICE detector is ongoing toward the LHC Run 3 starting in 2022 together with the upgrade of the data acquisition system and the detector control system (DCS) . One of the main projects of the current ALICE upgrade program is the addition of the muon forward tracker (MFT), a new silicon pixel detector located at forward rapidity. In this paper, we describe the DCS of the MFT detector which is entirely controlled via a finite state machine in a hierarchical system.

Mots clés: K : Detector control systems (detector and experiment monitoring and slow-control sys- tems; architecture; hardware; algorithms; databases); Control and monitor systems online; Particle tracking detectors (Solid-state detectors); Heavy-ion detectors; activity report; detector: control system; semiconductor detector: pixel; semiconductor detector: design; muon: forward spectrometer; ALICE; upgrade; data acquisition; tracking detector

Domaines: Instrumentations et Détecteurs [physics.ins-det]; Physique Nucléaire Expérimentale [nucl-ex]

K. Yamakawa, A. Augustinus, Guillaume Batigne, P. Chochula, M. Oya, et al.. Design and Implementation of Detector Control System for Muon Forward Tracker at ALICE. JINST, 2020, 15 (10), pp.T10002. ⟨10.1088/1748-0221/15/10/T10002⟩. ⟨hal-02899258⟩