학술논문

Analysis and Perspectives of Requirements for Detector Control Systems in High- Energy Physics Experiments
Document Type
Conference
Source
2020 8th International Conference in Software Engineering Research and Innovation (CONISOFT) CONISOFT Software Engineering Research and Innovation (CONISOFT), 2020 8th International Conference in. :29-37 Nov, 2020
Subject
Computing and Processing
Engineering Profession
Detectors
Software
Unified modeling language
Control systems
Physics
Process control
Monitoring
Detector Control System
High-Energy Physics
SCADA
UML
Language
Abstract
The high-precision measurements of detectors in a High-Energy Physics (HEP) experiment need a continuous sampling of recorded events during collisions. Therefore, significant hardware changes are required to do online data processing due to a large amount of data generated by such detectors. Because of all these changes, a new Detector Control System (DCS) design is required. This paper presents a definition of the software requirements to be considered during the design, integration, and operation of a detector’s DCS into physics data-taking, for continuous and non-continuous measurement conditions in the experiments. For this, the main operating processes, elements, characteristics, and guidelines of the DCS in the most important HEP experiments around the world were analyzed. Additionally, characteristics, functional and non-functional requirements, and use-cases of the main actors involved in the different processes of this control system software are defined. A visual modeling and design tool based on Unified Modeling Language (UML) is used to obtain a description of these requirements.