Software:Atlantis event display

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Atlantis
Atlantis event display.png
Example of visualized events
Original author(s)Atlas experiment
Initial release2006
Stable release
1. / April 2020
Written inJava
Operating systemCross-platform, Windows, macOS, Software:Linux
Available inEnglish
LicenseOpen source (GPLv3 or later, GPL and similar)
Websiteatlantis.web.cern.ch/atlantis/

The Atlantis event display is a visualization program [1] [2] for the Atlas experiment, the largest, general-purpose particle detector experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), a particle accelerator at CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) in Switzerland[3].

Atlantis implements 2D data-orientated projections [1] which can help understand proton-proton collision events. Event data are stored in XML files produced by a dedicated algorithm running in the ATLAS software framework, and translated into internal data objects. Multiple views of the data can be displayed within the main canvas area, with varying size and position. Interactions such as zoom, selection and query can occur between these views using drag and drop. The Atlantis program is implemented in Java.

Atlantis Java libraries are used in the Minerva program [4], a tool developed to help students learn more about the ATLAS experiment and particle physics at CERN.

Usage

The ATLANTIS event display is used by physicists as a standalone tool (from a downloadable jar file). Images created by ATLANTIS are usually embedded into physics papers to illustrate the results of particle collisions. The event display is also used in the Control Room of the ATLAS experiment during LHC collisions. This helps understand the quality of collected data in real time.


ATLANTIS event display in ATLAS control room

Figure 1: Collision events displayed by ATLANTIS during LHC data taking. The event display is projected to a large screen in the Atlas control room for the physicists on shifts [5].

See also

  • Jas4pp a program written in Java used for visualization of events for future colliders;
  • AIDA Abstract Interfaces for Data Analysis — open interfaces and formats for particle physics data processing

External links


References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Konstantinidis, N PDrohan, JMaxa, ZDrevermann, HCouchman, J etc. "The Atlantis event visualisation program for the ATLAS experiment" (2005) , p. DOI 10.5170/CERN-2005-002.361 http://cds.cern.ch/record/865603
  2. Bianchi, Riccardo-MariaBoudreau, JosephKonstantinidis, NikolaosMartyniuk, AlexMoyse, Edward etc. "Event visualization in ATLAS" (Tech. Report) (2017) ATL-SOFT-PROC-2017-046. 7, DOI 10.1088/1742-6596/898/7/072014 http://cds.cern.ch/record/2248396
  3. "ATLAS Experiment". CERN. https://home.cern/science/experiments/atlas. Retrieved 24 October 2019. 
  4. Minerva event display http://atlas-minerva.web.cern.ch/
  5. The credit for this image goes to CERN.