Arachne-A web-based event viewer for MINERνA

N. Tagg, J. Brangham, J. Chvojka, M. Clairemont, M. Day, B. Eberly, J. Felix, L. Fields, A. M. Gago, R. Gran, D. A. Harris, M. Kordosky, H. Lee, G. Maggi, E. Maher, W. A. Mann, C. M. Marshall, K. S. McFarland, A. M. McGowan, A. MislivecJ. Mousseau, B. Osmanov, J. Osta, V. Paolone, G. Perdue, R. D. Ransome, H. Ray, H. Schellman, D. W. Schmitz, C. Simon, C. J. Solano Salinas, B. G. Tice, J. Walding, T. Walton, J. Wolcott, D. Zhang, B. P. Ziemer

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Abstract

Neutrino interaction events in the MINERνA detector are visually represented with a web-based tool called Arachne. Data are retrieved from a central server via AJAX, and client-side JavaScript draws images into the users browser window using the draft HTML 5 "standard". These technologies allow neutrino interactions to be viewed by anyone with a web browser, allowing for easy hand-scanning of particle interactions. Arachne has been used in MINERνA to evaluate neutrino data in a prototype detector, to tune reconstruction algorithms, and for public outreach and education.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)44-49
Number of pages6
JournalNuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
Volume676
DOIs
StatePublished - Jun 1 2012

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
This material is based upon work principally supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 085542 . The development of educational resources for is supported by NSF Grant No. 0619727 . The experiment and NuMI beamline are supported by the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, which is operated by the Fermi Research Alliance, LLC , under contract No. DE-AC02-07CH11359 , including the construction project, with the United States Department of Energy. Construction support also was granted by the United States National Science foundation under NSF Award PHY-0619727 and by the University of Rochester . Support for participating scientists was provided by NASA, NSF and DOE (USA) by CAPES and CNPq (Brazil), by CoNaCyT (Mexico), by CONICYT (Chile), by CONCYTEC, DGI-PUCP and IDI-UNI (Peru), and by Latin American Center for Physics (CLAF). Additional support came from Jeffress Memorial Trust (MK) and Research Corporation (EM).

Keywords

  • AJAX
  • Data visualization
  • Event viewer
  • HTML 5
  • MINERνA experiment
  • NuMI beam
  • XML

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