Slow Control System of the FSD at BM@N Experiment

Big modern physics experiments represent a collaboration of workgroups and require wide variety of different electronic equipment. Besides trigger electronics or data acquisition system (DAQ), there is a hardware that is not time-critical, and can be run at a low priority. Slow control system (SCS) is used for setup and monitoring such hardware. SCS in a typical experiment are often used to setup and/or monitor components such as high voltage modules, temperature sensors, pressure gauges, leak detectors, RF generators, PID controllers etc. often from a large number of hardware vendors. Slow control system provides solution of the following tasks: control and monitoring of control parameters of detectors and other subsystems in the process of operation and setup of experimental facility, timely detection of failures in facility operation and alarming of emergency situations, monitoring of environmental parameters, archiving of facility parameters in database for further use in analysis of experimental data for the purpose of their correction.