Amira( Hinsdale South H.S.)
Mentor: Mandy Rominsky
At the Fermilab Test Beam facility, scientists test their equipment against the provided test beams. Since the equipment needs to be accurately tested, the parameters of the beam used must be documented extensively. The Test Beam Facility has a data acquisition system that can record the nature of each beam. However, the state of the beam and facility instruments needs to be recalled at a later time during analysis. In order to recall the conditions, Test Beam Facility needs a runs database: a way to store and recall information by assigning tags or descriptors to each run.
During the summer, I was tasked with learning about data acquisition and recollection in order to set up a runs database. I had to learn the coding language SQL and how to use applications like MIDAS and MySQL as well as how the two programs interact with each other. In the following paper I discuss the concepts of how data is acquired, how databases store and recall information, and how MySQL and MIDAS interface with each other.