BGV Project Folder on AFS The BGV AFS folder has been removed due to the AFS Phaseout. EOS is used instead. The afs group `bgvsa:afsuser` was deleted, as well as...
BGV Meetings BGV Indico Meetings to the BGV Indico Category Summary of the agendas of all BGV meetings (useful when searching for a given talk or topic):...
Presentations, Talks and Posters The table below summarizes BGV related contributions at Workshops, Conferences or similar events. Links to the event web page and...
BGV TWiki Home Beam Gas Vertex monitor for beam profile measurements at the LHC. An extensive description of the BGV system and its performance has been published...
Documents PhD theses Link to Valdir Salustino`s thesis in CDS Link to Olivier`s thesis in CDS ECR1: Space reservation Link to ECR1 page ECR2: BGV Demonstrator...
BGV Offline Analysis Tool Overview The BGV Offline Analysis tool is a command line tool that allows us to perform standard defined analysis on data, and more. The...
The Hugin board allow the tell1 boards to throttle the trigger. It is integrated in a similar way as ODIN and uses a ccpc for control. This document describes the...
HLT node The following software are required on the HLT nodes (mostly to interact with Wincc, as the HLT software itself is either local or on cvmfs) #nfsclient #fmc...
Control node The control node (bgvctrl) hosts the control SCADA software Wincc and also acts as the storage node, receiving the data from the HLT. See also BgvNetwork...
CtrlNode Setup the control node HltNode Setup an HLT node CloneHltNode clone an HLT node when installing a new computing blade server HuginBoard to enable throttling...
ODIN board on the computing side. ODIN is the supervisor board for DAQ, it is also operated like the tell1 boards with a CCPC. At boot time, the script TFCsetup must...
BGV network as installed in the service tunnel in P4. The DAQ switch is configured as gateway and requires a special configuration detailed in BgvSwitch. The bgvctrl...
The HLT nodes and CCPCs use some common directories shared via NFS. The bgvctrl acts as the NFS server some online documentation: http://computernetworkingnotes.com...
The backup strategy should secure the bgvctrl data, the RAW data and the general Wincc setup. There is not yet a strategy in place. However, for now the most important...
The front ends are configured via a CCPC (credit card PC) running on the board. The CCPCs are x486 CPUs booting via the network. They don`t have any local storage...
CVMFS shares are used on the bgvctrl and HLT nodes. It is based on http protocol and it can cache files locally. One advantage of the http protocol is that it can...
Procedure to install the zero suppression firmware on the BGV tell1s # Tell1 firmware update (ZS) all files are in the folder bgv zs release June2017 (in /group...
Level 0 Trigger Overview The BGV trigger consists of scintillator plates with dimensions 30x30cm2, arranged in 3 stations. A pair of scintillators is located before...
Raw data treatment This page aims to summarize the step leading to 0 suppressed data starting from raw data. The corrections were tested on BGV fibre modules prior...
Full characterisation of a BGV fibre module (4 layer) at the SPS test beam A spare tracking module (4 fibre layers) of the BGV detector was tested in the experimental...
Clone and HLT node from a working node to a new blade server. The principle is to use the mirroring RAID1 to clone the system and duplicate it in the new machine....
BGV EOS space Overview The EOS folder /eos/bgv is the official repository for the BGV detector data (.mdf, .digi etc files) and data simulated with Gauss/Gaudi...
SciFi Modules Assembly and Testing at EPFL SiPMs Each BGV SciFi module comprises 2x8 SiPMs. For each of them, the breakdown voltage is measured for all channels...
Geometry description and Conditions (DDDB and CondDB) Overview This page collects all information about the geometry description and conditions of the BGV detector...
Integration BGV Layout Local label of BGV demonstrator, left of point 4 at the LHC Final layout (09 2015) https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/pub/BGV/Integration...
BGV Vacuum System and Gas Target Engineering Drawings : EDMS: VACUUM CHAMBERS CDD: FOLDER BGVCA via DFS (Alternative way to access the chamber related...
BGV Subversion (SVN) Repository General information The BGV SVN repository facilitates the collaborative development of software and documents. SVN is a versioning...
Radiation Predictions from simulation and past measurements To be completed ... Estimation from past BLM measurements: about 9 Gy/year. Presented by Plamen...
Compressed / dry air Overview Dry air must be flushed in the detector SiPM cold boxes and inside the cooling manifold to avoid condensation/frost. According...
Cables Racks Here you can find information about 1. The cables needed for all BGV subsystems: Vacuum system (sectorisation and gas injection), Detector...
BGV SW Digitization LHCb SciFi digitization Effects related to the signal acquisition (to be implemented in the BGV simulation/digitization): light yield...
On this page you can find the OLD instructions for running the BGV SW using the LHCb Gaudi projects installed in /afs/cern.ch/work/p/phopchev/public/LHCbSW/ . These...
Overview The approach adopted by LHCb is to define detector and other, non sensitive, elements in a tree of xml files known as DDDB (Detector Description Database...