Detector control system for Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment

Abstract

The Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment is to measure the smallest mixing angle θ ¹³. The experiment contains three major experiment halls, Daya Bay near site, Linao near site and far site, and two major kinds of detectors, antineutrino detector which is to detect the antineutrinos by the inverse beta-decay reaction in Gd-LS, and muon detector which is to study and reject cosmogenic backgrounds. The goal of the detector control system (DCS) is to operate and detect the detectors and keep them running in safety. In consideration of the limited fund of this system and manpower of working on this system, the LabVIEW is chosen to develop the detector control system. The architecture of DCS adopts the distributed data management which is based on client-server model. The server part is to detect and operate parameters from hardware, save data to database and release data to clients, the client is to receive data from the server. The detector control system contains three parts: the hardware part, the local control system and the global control part. The local control system includes high voltage supply system, low voltage supply system, VME crate system, temperature and humidity system, gas pressure system, and so on.