List of GUI windows

The Apollo GUI is made of the following windows:

• Main Apollo Window: This is the main entrance window of the whole GUI. All other windows can be open from here. This window handles directly the following functions:
  • Login: User authentication. Without login no action is allowed. Users that have a valid login password can be:
    • GUEST: only viewers of the status of the system. A GUEST can look at histograms or data but cannot change the status of the system in any way
    • OPERATOR: can start or stop run, and not much else
    • EXPERT: can perform settings, change hardware parameters, create new profiles and such
    • ADMINISTRATOR: can do everything
    See section for more details.

  • System Setup: Setting of all Apollo Environment variables (i.e. Data Base location, computing system variables and similar). See section for more details.

• Profile Manager Window: This window allow to create, modify and view a data base profile. A new profile can be created starting from the existing status of the system or copying from an already existing profile. Only EXPERT or ADMINISTRATORS can use this window.

• Slow Control Window: This window allow to set/view hardware parameters for Front End, Bessel, Pulser and DAQ boards parameters. This window cannot be used during data taking, unless a special test run is in progress. Only EXPERT or ADMINISTRATORS can use this window. A very low level interface is also available to address physical registers (by-passing logical channel address system). This very low level interface can be used by ADMINISTRATORS only. See for details.

• Run Controller Window: Handles start and stop of a given run, allowing trigger setup, profile selection, and options concerning data file saving, format and so on.

• Run analyzer: This is the main window of the data analyzer system. From this window a set of different windows can be open to view data during data taking for data quality assurance. The list of sub-windows include:
  • Single channel analyzer: Displays infos and histograms of data of a single channel. Histograms are update real-time during data flow. There are no limits on the number of histograms available, although up to 4 or 8 (depending on monitor size) can be displayed at the same time. The list of histograms include:
    1. Baseline at full resolution (last 5 seconds)
    2. Medium resolution baseline (last 10 minutes)
    3. Low resolution baseline (from the beginning of run)
    4. Sigma baseline after pulse removal (3 histograms as for baseline)
    5. Triggering pulses in real time (all pulses)
    6. High energy triggering pulses (same as above with high energy threshold)
    7. Channel energy spectrum (simple energy calculation as peak-base)
    8. Channel energy spectrum with pulser triggers only
    9. Channel energy spectrum with particle triggers only (everything but pulser)
    10. FFT spectrum of noise after pulse removal
    11. FFT spectrum including pulses

  • Global analyzer: Displays infos and histograms of data of the whole collection of channels.