The baseline STAR Hardware Controls System is a collaborative effort of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and four Academic Institutions (Creighton University, University of Washington, University of California Los Angeles and Kent State University). The system was created using software which was developed at Argonne and Los Alamos National Laboratories for particle accelerator controls. The STAR experiment currently controls and monitors approximately 10,000 parameters (temperatures, voltages, etc.).

Undergraduate students' contributions to this project have been and continue to be significant. Students are involved in the development and implementation of EPICS (Experimental Physics and Industrial Controls System) software.

You can read a paper about the Controls System at STAR (pdf or postscript), or you can check out the STAR Controls Group homepage.

Dr. Michael Cherney and Fr. Tom McShane are the Creighton faculty members involved with STAR Slow Controls.

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