Slow control system for the STAR experiment

Y. Gorbunov; Michael G. Cherney; J. Fujita; W. Waggoner

doi:10.1109/NSSMIC.2007.4436465

Slow control system for the STAR experiment

Y. Gorbunov, Michael G. Cherney, J. Fujita, W. Waggoner

Department of Physics

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Abstract

The STAR (Solenoidal Tracker At RHIC) experiment located at Brookhaven National Laboratory has been studying relativistic heavy ion collisions since it began operation in the summer of 2000. An EPICS-based hardware controls system monitors the detector's 40,000 operating parameters. The system uses VME processors and PC's to communicate with sub-system based sensors over a variety of field busses. The system also includes interfaces to accelerator and magnet control systems, an archiver with CGI web-based interface and C++-based communication between STAR online system, run control and hardware controls and their associated databases. An upgrade project [1] underway. This involves the migration of 60% of the I/O control from the aging VME processors to PC's. The host system has been transferred from Sun OS to Scientific Linux and some VME boards were replaced with soft IOC applications. The experience gained with the current setup will be discussed, upgrade plans and progress will be outlined.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2007 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, NSS-MIC
Pages	864-865
Number of pages	2
Volume	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/NSSMIC.2007.4436465
State	Published - 2007
Event	2007 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, NSS-MIC - Honolulu, HI, United States Duration: Oct 27 2007 → Nov 3 2007

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Other	2007 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, NSS-MIC
Country	United States
City	Honolulu, HI
Period	10/27/07 → 11/3/07

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Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering

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Gorbunov, Y., Cherney, M. G., Fujita, J., & Waggoner, W. (2007). Slow control system for the STAR experiment. In 2007 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, NSS-MIC (Vol. 1, pp. 864-865). [4436465] https://doi.org/10.1109/NSSMIC.2007.4436465

Gorbunov, Y, Cherney, MG, Fujita, J & Waggoner, W 2007, Slow control system for the STAR experiment. in 2007 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, NSS-MIC. vol. 1, 4436465, pp. 864-865, 2007 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, NSS-MIC, Honolulu, HI, United States, 10/27/07. https://doi.org/10.1109/NSSMIC.2007.4436465

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