Design and Implementation of Detector Control System for Muon Forward Tracker at ALICE

TL;DR

This paper details the design and implementation of a hierarchical detector control system for the Muon Forward Tracker at ALICE, enhancing the experiment's capability to study heavy-ion collisions at CERN.

Contribution

It introduces a novel finite state machine-based control system specifically developed for the MFT detector upgrade at ALICE.

Findings

Successful deployment of the DCS for MFT at CERN

Improved control and monitoring of the MFT detector

Enhanced integration with ALICE's data acquisition system

Abstract

ALICE is the experiment at the CERN LHC devoted to study heavy-ion collisions. An upgrade program of the ALICE detector is ongoing toward the LHC Run 3 starting in 2022 together with the upgrade of the data acquisition system and the detector control system (DCS). One of the main projects of the current ALICE upgrade program is the addition of the muon forward tracker (MFT), a new silicon pixel detector located at forward rapidity. In this paper, we describe the DCS of the MFT detector which is entirely controlled via a finite state machine in a hierarchical system.