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HK: Fachverband Physik der Hadronen und Kerne

HK 20: Instrumentation VII

HK 20.7: Talk

Tuesday, February 27, 2018, 15:45–16:00, HZO 80

Structure of the PANDA Detector Control System — •Tobias Triffterer for the PANDA collaboration — Institut für Experimentalphysik I, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum, Germany

The PANDA experiment is a pillar of the Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research (FAIR) which is currently under construction in Darmstadt, Germany. PANDA will investigate open questions in hadron physics by studying the collision of antiprotons in the momentum range from 1.5 GeV/c to 15 GeV/c with a fixed target.

The PANDA detector consists of 30 subsystems which all depend on several kinds of services (like high voltage, low voltage, cooling, gas etc.) to operate properly. The purpose of a detector control system (DCS) is to monitor and control all these devices, report to the crew on shift and provide insight to subsystem experts to solve any occuring problem. In addition, it programs the front-end devices with the necessary calibration parameters to operate properly.

The control software for an individual subsystem gets created by the PANDA members responsible for said subsystem, but in addition components like the operator interfaces, the alarm system and the archiving system are managed by a dedicated Controls Group within the PANDA Collaboration.

This talk explores the challenges in bringing together heterogenic software components for a variety of different tasks and illustrates the way the PANDA Collaboration is solving these challenges, e. g. by dividing the DCS into layers and independent subnetworks.

This project is supported by the BMBF.