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Development of a Central Trigger Processor board for the Advanced SiPM based camera of the CTA Large-Sized Telescopes

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics 2025-12-17 v1

Abstract

We present ongoing work on the Central Trigger Processor board (CTPb), a trigger subsystem for the future advanced SiPM-based Large-Sized Telescope (LST) camera of the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO). The camera will implement a fully digital trigger, exploiting the increased resolution to improve discrimination of low-energy γ\gamma-ray events from Night Sky Background noise. This approach aims to enhance telescope sensitivity while satisfying strict timing and data rate constraints. We describe the CTPb conceptual design and report initial results from hardware prototypes under evaluation within this next-generation trigger architecture.

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@article{arxiv.2512.14343,
  title  = {Development of a Central Trigger Processor board for the Advanced SiPM based camera of the CTA Large-Sized Telescopes},
  author = {A. Pérez-Aguilera and M. Molina-Delicado and T. Dietrich and L. A. Tejedor and J. A. Barrio and A. Upegui and Q. Berthet and J. Buces and D. Nieto and D. Martín-Domínguez and T. Miener},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.14343},
  year   = {2025}
}

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Contribution to the Towpical Workshop for Particle Physics 2025 conference