The distributed Slow Control System of the XENON100 Experiment
Abstract
The XENON100 experiment, in operation at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (LNGS) in Italy, was designed to search for evidence of dark matter interactions inside a volume of liquid xenon using a dual-phase time projection chamber. This paper describes the Slow Control System (SCS) of the experiment with emphasis on the distributed architecture as well as on its modular and expandable nature. The system software was designed according to the rules of Object-Oriented Programming and coded in Java, thus promoting code reusability and maximum flexibility during commissioning of the experiment. The SCS has been continuously monitoring the XENON100 detector since mid 2008, remotely recording hundreds of parameters on a few dozen instruments in real time, and setting emergency alarms for the most important variables.
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@article{arxiv.1211.0836,
title = {The distributed Slow Control System of the XENON100 Experiment},
author = {E. Aprile and M. Alfonsi and K. Arisaka and F. Arneodo and C. Balan and L. Baudis and A. Behrens and P. Beltrame and K. Bokeloh and E. Brown and G. M. Bruno and R. Budnik and M. Le Calloch and J. M. Cardoso and W. -T. Chen and B. Choi and H. Contreras and J. -P. Cussonneau and M. P. Decowski and E. Duchovni and S. Fattori and A. D. Ferella and W. Fulgione and F. Gao and M. Garbini and K. -L. Giboni and L. Goetzke and C. Grignon and E. Gross and W. Hampel and D. N. McKinsey and A. Kish and J. Lamblin and R. F. Lang and C. Levy and K. E. Lim and Q. Lin and S. Lindemann and M. Lindner and J. A. M. Lopes and K. Lung and A. Manzur and T. Marrodán Undagoitia and F. V. Massoli and Y. Mei and A. J. Melgarejo Fernandez and Y. Meng and A. Molinario and E. Nativ and K. Ni and U. Oberlack and S. E. A. Orrigo and E. Pantic and J. V. Patricio and R. Persiani and G. Plante and N. Priel and A. C. C. Ribeiro and A. Rizzo and S. Rosendahl and J. M. F. dos Santos and G. Sartorelli and J. Schreiner and M. Schumann and L. Scotto Lavina and P. R. Scovell and M. Selvi and P. Shagin and H. Simgen and A. Teymourian and D. Thers and O. Vitells and H. Wang and M. Weber and C. Weinheimer},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1211.0836},
year = {2015}
}
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12 pages, 4 figures