The Slow Control and Data Quality Monitoring System for the Belle II Experiment

Abstract

The Belle II experiment will start physics data taking in 2016 at the SuperKEKB factory to search for new physics beyond the Standard Model from flavor physics channels. The Belle II data acquisition (DAQ) system consists of a large number of subsystems to handle the high trigger rate and huge data bandwidth, where each subsystem can be considered as a network-accessible component distributed in a control network. A software control and monitoring system for the Belle II experiment was newly developed to manage the data flow and the subsystems. A slow control system handles with the operations of the DAQ subsystems, including parameter management with relational databases while a data quality monitor system analyzes event sample in the online data flow to monitor status of the detector and data taking. Graphical user interfaces were also developed for both of the software systems. We report designs of the slow control and the DQM system and results of operation of a beam test with prototypes of the Belle detector components in the DESY test beam facility in January, 2014.