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An Automated Bandwidth Division for the LHCb Upgrade Trigger

High Energy Physics - Experiment 2025-07-25 v2

Abstract

The upgraded Large Hadron Collider beauty (LHCb) experiment is the first detector based at a hadron collider using a fully software based trigger. The first `High Level Trigger' stage (HLT1) reduces the event rate from 30 MHz to approximately 1 MHz based on reconstruction criteria from the tracking system, and consists of O(100)\mathcal{O}(100) trigger selections implemented on Graphics Processing Units (GPUs). These selections are further refined following the full offline-quality reconstruction at the second stage (HLT2) prior to saving for analysis. An automated bandwidth division has been performed to equitably divide this 1 MHz HLT1 Output Rate (OR) between the signals of interest to the LHCb physics programme. This was achieved by optimising a set of trigger selections that maximise efficiency for signals of interest to LHCb while keeping the total HLT1 readout capped to a maximum. The bandwidth division tool has been used to determine the optimal selection for 35 selection algorithms over 80 characteristic physics channels.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2502.09557,
  title  = {An Automated Bandwidth Division for the LHCb Upgrade Trigger},
  author = {T. Evans and C. Fitzpatrick and J. Horswill},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.09557},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

16 pages, 14 figures. Submitted to Computing and Software for Big Science. Reviewed by Ross Hunter and Vava Gligorov

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