1. Antares Slow Control Status 2007 International Conference on Accelerator and Large Experimental Physics Control Systems - Knoxville, Tennessee - October 15-19, 2007 Jean-Michel Gallone on behalf of the ANTARES Collaboration

2. 23 Institutes from 7 European countries 40 km submarine cable -2475m ANTARES shore station ANTARES collaboration and location

3. Neutrino telescope: Detection principle   43° Sea floor p  10 4 atm  p,  10 7  atm  Reconstruction of  trajectory (~ ) from timing and position of PMT hits interaction Cherenkov light from  3D PMT array  1-100 cosm

4. Detector layout ~70 m 12 lines (900 PMTs) 25 storeys / line 3 PMTs/storey 350 m 100 m 14.5 m Junction box Readout cables 40 km to shore Horizontal layout Sea bed ~ -2500 m a storey

5. Hydrophone: acoustic positioning Optical Module: 10” PMT in 17” glass sphere photon detection Basic detection and calibration elements Local Control Module (in Ti container): Front-end ASIC, Clock, DAQ/SC, compass/roll/pitch Optical Beacon with blue LEDs: timing calibration

6. Detector line deployment

7. Submarine detector line connection

9. 9+1 lines in sea, 5 in operation L11 L9 L10 L12 L7 L8 L6 L4 L2 L3 L5 L1 IL07 seismometer 100 m N Junction box Submarine cable to shore 42°50’ N 6°10’E 5 lines detector (since January 29 th ) (Sept. 2007)

10. Status store in Database On Shore SC System Slow Control DataBase Monitor Electronic Module LCM Container Off Shore SC System Modbus Polling Run Control SetUp Control Room DataWriter DAQ

11. DatabaseTables Database Tables Construction Tables Integration Tables Set Up Tables Product Structure Tables Modbus Tables Polling Tables Process List Tables Oracle DataBase – Store in CCIn2p3 @ Lyon Raw Data Tables Parameter Tables Run Tables Monitored Values Tables Calibration Tables

12. DAQ / SC Synchronisation StandByReadyRunning Paused Idle InitConfigureStart PauseContinueQuit Stop Reset

13. Raw Data Update On Shore SC System DataBase Electronic LCM Off Shore SC System DBWriter Modbus Polling Dispatcher SetUp Control Room DWDM

14. Monitoring Data Path On Shore SC System Set Up DBWriter Polling Parser Dispatcher Monitor Run Control Control Room Raw Data ModBus Requests View Monitored Values Calibration Run

15. Sample 1 : Aquadopp Monitor

16. Sample 2 : Compass Monitor

17. 3D ANTARES detector operational with 5 lines; 4 extra lines in the sea waiting to be connected, 12 lines detector completed early 2008 Slow control records detector status in database Biggest tables are about 1 Go / Years / Line Monitor GUI are provided but can be easily generated by users Several millions of down going events available to study detector behavior in various bioluminescence conditions First underwater neutrino candidates reconstructed in the Mediterranean sea MC comparison ongoing, physics results expected soonSummary