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The CMS experiment at the LHC has started data taking in Run 3 at a $\mathrm{pp}$ collision energy of $13.6~\mathrm{TeV}$. In preparation for Run 3, detector systems, such as Pixel Tracker, HCAL and CSC, have been upgraded due to…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-09-07 Srećko Morović

A Liquid-argon Trigger Digitizer Board (LTDB) is being developed to upgrade the ATLAS Liquid Argon Calorimeter Phase-I trigger electronics. The LTDB located at the front end needs to obtain the clock signals and be configured and monitored…

A new TDC-chip is under development for the COMPASS experiment at CERN. The ASIC, which exploits the 0.6 micrometer CMOS sea-of-gate technology, will allow high resolution time measurements with digitization of 75 ps, and an unprecedented…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Braun , H. Fischer , J. Franz , A. Grunemaier , F. H. Heinsius , K. Konigsmann , M. Schierloh , T. Schmidt , H. Schmitt , H. J. Urban

The ATLAS Fast TracKer (FTK) was designed to provide full tracking for the ATLAS high-level trigger by using pattern recognition based on Associative Memory (AM) chips and fitting in high-speed field programmable gate arrays. The tracks…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-07-07 ATLAS Collaboration

The ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment) detector yields a huge sample of data from different sub-detectors. On-line data processing is applied to select and reduce the volume of the stored data. ALICE applies a multi-level hardware…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-14 F. Ronchetti , F. Blanco , M. Figueredo , A. G. Knospe , L. Xaplanteris

ALICE, one of the experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (CERN), is undergoing ambitious upgrades during the ongoing second long shutdown (LS2). The main goal of this project is to access rare events and previously inaccessible physics…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-04-23 Adam Laszlo Gera

A Large Ion Collider Experiment (ALICE) has been conceived and constructed as a heavy-ion experiment at the LHC. During LHC Runs 1 and 2, it has produced a wide range of physics results using all collision systems available at the LHC. In…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-06-10 ALICE Collaboration

ALICE (A Large Heavy Ion Experiment) is one of the four large scale experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. The High Level Trigger (HLT) is an online computing farm, which reconstructs events recorded by the ALICE detector…

During the next major shutdown (2019-2020), the ATLAS experiment at the LHC will adopt the Front-End Link eXchange (FELIX) system as the interface between the data acquisition, detector control and TTC (Timing, Trigger and Control) systems…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-09-04 Weihao Wu

A dedicated front-end electronics has been developed for the trigger chambers of the ALICE muon spectrometer which will work at the future LHC at CERN. These trigger chambers are based on RPCs (Resistive Plate Chambers) working in streamer…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Rosnet , L. Royer , the Alice Collaboration

During Large Hadron Collider (LHC) Long Shutdown 3 (LS3) (2026-28), the ALICE experiment is replacing its inner-most three tracking layers by a new detector, Inner Tracking System 3. It will be based on newly developed wafer-scale…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-09-04 Chun-Zheng Wang

A Large Ion Collider Experiment (ALICE) is built to study the properties of the strongly interacting matter created in heavy-ion collisions at the LHC. With the upgrade of its Inner Tracking System (ITS), the ALICE experiment is going to…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-11-23 Iouri Belikov

The online event reconstruction for the ALICE experiment at CERN requires processing capabilities to process central Pb-Pb collisions at a rate of more than 200 Hz, corresponding to an input data rate of about 25 GB/s. The reconstruction of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-14 David Rohr , Sergey Gorbunov , Artur Szostak , Matthias Kretz , Thorsten Kollegger , Timo Breitner , Torsten Alt

ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment) is the heavy-ion detector designed to study the strongly interacting state of matter realized in relativistic heavy-ion collisions at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC). A major upgrade of the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-14 Pascal Boeschoten , Filippo Costa

For Run 4, ALICE is pioneering the construction of truly cylindrical tracking layers, which will improve the measurements of heavy-flavour hadrons and dielectrons. In addition, a Forward Calorimeter (FoCal) for the measurement of direct…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2022-11-10 H. Sebastian Scheid

The High Level Trigger (HLT) of the future ALICE heavy-ion experiment has to reduce its input data rate of up to 25 GB/s to at most 1.25 GB/s for output before the data is written to permanent storage. To cope with these data rates a large…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2009-09-29 Timm M. Steinbeck

A Large Ion Collider Experiment (ALICE) is one of the four major experiments conducted at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The ALICE detector is currently undergoing an upgrade for the upcoming Run 3 at the LHC. The new Inner Tracking…

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…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-17 A. Pérez-Aguilera , M. Molina-Delicado , T. Dietrich , L. A. Tejedor , J. A. Barrio , A. Upegui , Q. Berthet , J. Buces , D. Nieto , D. Martín-Domínguez , T. Miener

The hadron-hadron based Future Circular Collider (FCC-hh) is a project with the goal to collide proton-proton beams at a center of mass energy of sqrt(s)=100 TeV with a bunch crossing rate of 25 ns. Some of the major challenges that the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-10-16 Tamasi Kar , Danilo E. F. de Lima , Andrè Schöning , Jike Wang

Particle identification (PID) is a fundamental aspect of the ALICE detector system, central to its heavy-ion and proton-proton physics programs. Among the different PID strategies, ALICE uses the Time-Of-Flight (TOF) detector to identify…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-11-14 ALICE Collaboration