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We discuss how a level-1 trigger, about 8 us after a hadron-hadron collision, can be derived from the Transition Radiation Detector (TRD) in A Large Ion Collider Experiment (ALICE) at the LHC. Chamber-wise track segments from fast…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Jochen Klein

The Inner Tracking System (ITS) of the ALICE experiment at CERN will undergo an upgrade during the LHC long shutdown 3, in which the three innermost tracking layers will be replaced. This upgrade, named the Inner Tracking System 3 (ITS3),…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-12-14 M. Buckland

The Transition Radiation Detector (TRD) for the ALICE experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) identifies electrons in p+p and in the challenging high multiplicity environment of heavy-ion collisions and provides fast online tracking…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 M. J. Kweon

ALICE, one of the four main CERN LHC experiments, studies heavy-ion collisions at ultra-relativistic energies. For LHC Run 4 (starting 2030), ALICE will replace the three innermost cylindrical layers of its inner tracking system during Long…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-05-07 Livia Terlizzi

ALICE analyses mostly deal with large datasets using the distributed Grid infrastructure. In LHC running periods 1 and 2, ALICE developed a system of analysis trains (so-called $"$LEGO trains$"$) that allowed the user to configure analysis…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-09-21 Raquel Quishpe , Jan Fiete Grosse-Oetringhaus , Raluca Cruceru , Costin Grigoras

In modern High Energy Physics (HEP) experiments, triggers perform the important task of selecting, in real time, the data to be recorded and saved for physics analyses. As a result, trigger strategies play a key role in extracting relevant…

Proton-proton collisions at sqrt{s} = 7 TeV and heavy ion collisions at sqrt{s_NN} = 2.76 TeV were produced by the LHC and recorded using the ATLAS experiment's trigger system in 2010. The LHC is designed with a maximum bunch crossing rate…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2012-08-27 The ATLAS Collaboration

Starting in 2022, the upgraded LHCb detector will collect data with a pure software trigger. In its first stage, reducing the rate from 30MHz to about 1MHz, GPUs are used to reconstruct and trigger on B and D meson topologies and high-pT…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-07-10 Sevda Esen , Arthur Marius Hennequin , Michel De Cian

The Fast Tracker (FTK) is a proposed upgrade to the ATLAS trigger system that will operate at full Level-1 output rates and provide high quality tracks reconstructed over the entire detector by the start of processing in Level-2. FTK solves…

In Run-3, beginning in 2022, the LHCb software trigger will start reconstructing events at the LHC average crossing rate of 30 MHz. Within the upgraded DAQ system, LHCb established a testbed for new heterogeneous computing solutions for…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-04-20 F. Lazzari , W. Baldini , G. Bassi , A. Contu , M. Dorigo , R. Fantechi , L. Giambastiani , M. J. Morello , G. Punzi , M. Sticchi , G. Tuci

The ALICE collaboration is preparing an upgrade of the three innermost layers of the current Inner Tracking System (ITS) during the next LHC long shutdown (LS3). The new ITS detector will use wafer-scale (up to \SI{27}{cm} in length)…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-01-29 Stefania Perciballi

The ALICE Transition Radiation Detector contributes to the tracking, particle identification, and triggering capabilities of the experiment. It is composed of six layers of multi-wire proportional chambers, each of which is preceded by a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-13 Jochen Klein

Since the start-up of the LHC end of 2009, the trigger commissioning is in full swing. The ATLAS trigger system is divided into three levels: the hardware-based first level trigger, and the software-based second level trigger and Event…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-14 Cibran Santamarina Rios

Since the initial data taking of the CERN LHC, the CMS experiment has undergone substantial upgrades and improvements. This paper discusses the CMS detector as it is configured for the third data-taking period of the CERN LHC, Run 3, which…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-06-03 CMS Collaboration

The Level-1 trigger of the CMS experiment at CERN has been designed to select proton-proton interactions whose final state includes signatures of new physics in the form of high transverse energy electrons, photons, jets, or high missing…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2008-10-23 C. Foudas

The LHC timing signals are broadcast to various destinations in the subsequent experiments. And all of them could be delayed to time in the ATLAS sub-detectors by using the Corde board and the RF2TTC module. The ATLAS BPTX detectors and…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2011-10-04 Zhiwei Yang

The ALICE HLT uses a data transport framework based on the publisher-subscriber message principle, which transparently handles the communication between processing components over the network and between processing components on the same…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-14 David Rohr , Mikolaj Krzwicki , Heiko Engel , Johannes Lehrbach , Volker Lindenstruth

In the future ALICE heavy ion experiment at CERN's Large Hadron Collider input data rates of up to 25 GB/s have to be handled by the High Level Trigger (HLT) system, which has to scale them down to at most 1.25 GB/s before being written to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2010-11-19 Timm M. Steinbeck , Volker Lindenstruth , Heinz Tilsner

The performance of the jet trigger for the ATLAS detector at the LHC during the 2011 data taking period is described. During 2011 the LHC provided proton-proton collisions with a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV and heavy ion collisions with…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2016-10-12 ATLAS Collaboration

ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment) at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is designed to study proton-proton and heavy-ion collisions at ultra-relativistic energies. The main goal of the experiment is to assess the properties of quark…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-10-25 Livia Terlizzi