Design of a hardware track finder (Fast TracKer) for the ATLAS trigger

The ATLAS Fast TracKer is a custom electronics system that will operate at the full Level-1 accept trigger rate, 100 kHz, to provide high quality tracks as input to the high level trigger. The event reconstruction is performed in hardware, thanks to the massive parallelism of associative memories an...

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Published in:Journal of instrumentation 2014-01, Vol.9 (1), p.C01045-C01045
Main Authors: Annovi, A, Beretta, M, Bogdan, M, Cipriani, R, Citraro, S, Faulkner, G, Gatta, M, Giannetti, P, Lanza, A, Luciano, P, Luongo, C, Magalotti, D, Nikolaidis, S, Piendibene, M, Tompkins, L, Shochet, M, Sotiropoulou, C -L, Volpi, G
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Associative memory
Design engineering
Electronic systems
Electronics
Hardware
Instrumentation
Microprocessors
Particle physics
Workshops
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Summary:The ATLAS Fast TracKer is a custom electronics system that will operate at the full Level-1 accept trigger rate, 100 kHz, to provide high quality tracks as input to the high level trigger. The event reconstruction is performed in hardware, thanks to the massive parallelism of associative memories and FPGAs. We present the advantages for the physics goals of the ATLAS experiment at LHC as well as the recent results on the design, technological advancements and test of some of the core components used in the processor.
ISSN:1748-0221
1748-0221
DOI:10.1088/1748-0221/9/01/C01045