2003/06/16 by A. Vaniachine, S. Eckmann, Vaniachine, A. +7
Computer Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Data Storage Technologies #Databases (cs.DB) #Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems #FOS: Computer and information sciences #H.2.4 #Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC) #Particle Detector Development and Performance #cs.DB #cs.HC
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.cs/0306103
Talk from the 2003 Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics (CHEP03), La Jolla, Ca, USA, March 2003, 6 pages, 5 figures, pdf. PSN MOKT006
arxiv created 2003/06/16 · openalex publication_date 2003/06/16 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We present the design and the status of the database for detector description parameters in ATLAS experiment. The ATLAS Primary Numbers are the parameters defining the detector geometry and digitization in simulations, as well as certain reconstruction parameters. Since the detailed ATLAS detector description needs more than 10,000 such parameters, a preferred solution is to have a single verified source for all these data. The database stores the data dictionary for each parameter collection object, providing schema evolution support for object-based retrieval of parameters. The same Primary Numbers are served to many different clients accessing the database: the ATLAS software framework Athena, the Geant3 heritage framework Atlsim, the Geant4 developers framework FADS/Goofy, the generator of XML output for detector description, and several end-user clients for interactive data navigation, including web-based browsers and ROOT. The choice of the MySQL database product for the implementation provides additional benefits: the Primary Numbers database can be used on the developers laptop when disconnected (using the MySQL embedded server technology), with data being updated when the laptop is connected (using the MySQL database replication).