Published September 11, 2007 | Version v1
Journal article

The Level-0 muon trigger for the LHCb experiment

  • 1. Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille, Aix-Marseille Universite, CNRS/IN2P3, Marseille (France)

Description

A very compact architecture has been developed for the first level muon trigger of the LHCb experiment that processes 40x106 proton-proton collisions per second. For each collision, it receives 3.2 kBytes of data and it finds straight tracks within a 1.2μs latency. The trigger implementation is massively parallel, pipelined and fully synchronous with the LHC clock. It relies on 248 high density Field Programable Gate Arrays and on the massive use of multigigabit serial link transceivers embedded inside FPGAs

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2007.06.022

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.nima.2007.06.022;
arXiv
arXiv:0705.0310v1;
PII
S0168-9002(07)01223-5;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research. Section A, Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
Journal Volume
579
Journal Issue
3
Journal Page Range
p. 989-1004
ISSN
0168-9002
CODEN
NIMAER

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Copyright
Copyright (c) 2007 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.