The Level-0 Muon Trigger for the LHCb Experiment

A very compact architecture has been developed for the first level Muon Trigger of the LHCb experiment that processes 40 millions of proton-proton collisions per second. For each collision, it receives 3.2 kBytes of data and it finds straight tracks within a 1.2 microseconds latency. The trigger imp...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published in:arXiv.org 2007-05
Main Authors: Aslanides, E, J -P Cachemiche, Cogan, J, Dinkespiler, B, Favard, S, P -Y Duval, R Le Gac, Leroy, O, P -L Liotard, Marin, F, Menouni, M, Roche, A, Tsaregorodtsev, A
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Gate arrays
Large Hadron Collider
Muons
Particle collisions
Transceivers
Online Access:Get full text
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Description
Summary:A very compact architecture has been developed for the first level Muon Trigger of the LHCb experiment that processes 40 millions of proton-proton collisions per second. For each collision, it receives 3.2 kBytes of data and it finds straight tracks within a 1.2 microseconds 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.
ISSN:2331-8422
DOI:10.48550/arxiv.0705.0310