The Power System Detector Control System of the Monitored Drift Tubes of the ATLAS Experiment
C. Tsarouchas, Theodoros Argyropoulos, T. Alexopoulos, M. Bachtis, G. Tsipolitis, S. Vlachos, E. Mountricha, A Lliopoulos, Evangelos N. Gazis · CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research) · 2008
In this note the Detector Control System (DCS) for the power supply (PS) of the Monitored Drift Tube (MDT) chambers of the ATLAS experiment is presented. The principal task of DCS is to enable and ensure the coherent and safe operation of the detector. The interaction of the detector experts users or shifters with the detector hardware is also performed via DCS. This system monitors the operational parameters and the overall state of the detector, the alarm generation and handling, the connection of hardware values to databases and the interaction with the Data Acquisition system (DAQ). In this note the Power System (PS) system as a Detector Control Subsystem is presented. Furthermore, it is outlined in detail what is the front-end to be controlled and how the architecture of the back-end is established.