The CMS electromagnetic calorimeter detector control system

Abstract

This paper presents the Detector Control System (DCS) designed and implemented for the Electromagnetic Calorimeter (ECAL) of the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment at CERN. The focus is on its distributed controls software architecture, the deployment of the application into production and its integration into the overall CMS DCS. The knowledge acquired from operational issues during the detector commissioning and the first phase of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) physics runs is discussed and future improvements are presented.