Design and implementation of detector control system for muon forward tracker at ALICE

• Published in: Journal of instrumentation Vol. 15; no. 10; p. T10002
• Main Authors: Yamakawa, K., Augustinus, A., Batigne, G., Chochula, P., Oya, M., Panebianco, S., Pinazza, O., Shigaki, K., Tieulent, R., Yamaguchi, Y.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Bristol IOP Publishing 01.10.2020
• Subjects: Atomic collisions; Control systems; Finite state machines; Heavy ions; Instrumentation and Detectors; Ionic collisions; Large Hadron Collider; Muons; Nuclear Experiment; Physics; Sensors; algorithms; databases; Particle tracking detectors (Solid-state detectors); upgrade; muon: forward spectrometer; semiconductor detector: pixel; detector: control system; Heavy-ion detectors; semiconductor detector: design; activity report; ALICE; data acquisition; Control and monitor systems online; K : Detector control systems (detector and experiment monitoring and slow-control sys- tems; architecture; hardware; tracking detector
• ISSN: 1748-0221; 1748-0221
• DOI: 10.1088/1748-0221/15/10/T10002

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.