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The ATLAS Semiconductor Tracker (SCT) together with the pixel and the transition radiation detectors will form the tracking system of the ATLAS experiment at LHC. It will consist of 20000 single-sided silicon microstrip sensors assembled…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-14 Vasiliki A. Mitsou

ATLAS is a multipurpose experiment at the LHC. The tracking system of ATLAS, embedded in a 2 T solenoidal field, is composed of different technologies: silicon planar sensors (pixel and microstrips) and drift-tubes. The procedure used to…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-13 Ana Ovcharova

The ATLAS Trigger system is a key component of the ATLAS experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC), designed to reduce the event rate from the 40 MHz proton-proton bunch crossing frequency to an output suitable for offline storage…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-03-17 Leonardo Toffolin

A demonstrator for each slice of the ATLAS pixel detector was built to replicate the real detector and provide early solutions for operating and maintaining its components. This system-level testing of the all-silicon Inner Tracker (ITk)…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-01-15 Yahya Khwaira

We present the results of an R&D study for a specialized processor capable of precisely reconstructing events with hundreds of charged-particle tracks in pixel and silicon strip detectors at $40\,\rm MHz$, thus suitable for processing LHC…

ATLAS is making extensive efforts towards preparing a detector upgrade for the high luminosity operations of the LHC (HL-LHC), which will commence operation in about 10 years. The current ATLAS Inner Detector will be replaced by an…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-10-17 Jike Wang

Particle track reconstruction, in which the trajectories of charged particles are determined, is a critical and time consuming component of the full event reconstruction chain. The underlying software is complex and consists of a number of…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-01-24 Rocky Bala Garg , Elyssa Hofgard , Lauren Tompkins , Heather Gray

The semiconductor tracker is a silicon microstrip detector forming part of the inner tracking system of the ATLAS experiment at the LHC. The operation and performance of the semiconductor tracker during the first years of LHC running are…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-06-19 ATLAS Collaboration

In the field of information forensics, many emerging problems involve a critical step that estimates and tracks weak frequency components in noisy signals. It is often challenging for the prior art of frequency tracking to i)achieve a high…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-16 Qiang Zhu , Mingliang Chen , Chau-Wai Wong , Min Wu

We present a flexible and scalable approach to address the challenges of charged particle track reconstruction in real-time event filters (Level-1 triggers) in collider physics experiments. The method described here is based on a full-mesh…

FASER (ForwArd Search ExpeRiment) fills the axial blindspot of other, radially arranged LHC experiments. It is installed 480 meters from the ATLAS interaction point, along the collision axis. FASER will search for new, long-lived particles…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-11-09 Savannah Shively

The ATLAS experiment relies on real-time hadronic jet reconstruction and $b$-tagging to record fully hadronic events containing $b$-jets. These algorithms require track reconstruction, which is computationally expensive and could overwhelm…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-11-14 ATLAS Collaboration

Visual tracking is one of the most important application areas of computer vision. At present, most algorithms are mainly implemented on PCs, and it is difficult to ensure real-time performance when applied in the real scenario. In order to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-16 Ke Song , Chun Yuan , Peng Gao , Yunxu Sun

The semiconductor tracker (SCT) is one of the tracking systems for charged particles in the ATLAS detector. It consists of 4088 silicon strip sensor modules. During Run 2 (2015$-$2018) the Large Hadron Collider delivered an integrated…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-01-21 ATLAS Collaboration

The electron-proton collider HERA is being upgraded to provide higher luminosity from the end of the year 2001. In order to enhance the selectivity on exclusive processes a Fast Track Trigger (FTT) with high momentum resolution is being…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2014-11-17 D. Meer , D. Muller , J. Muller , A. Schoning , Ch. Wissing

Particle tracking is among the most sophisticated and complex part of the full event reconstruction chain. A number of reconstruction algorithms work in a sequence to build these trajectories from detector hits. These algorithms use many…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-12-11 Rocky Bala Garg , Corentin Allaire , Andreas Salzburger , Hadrien Grasland , Lauren Tompkins , Elyssa Hofgard

The ATLAS Inner Tracker, the future innermost part of the ATLAS detector, is an all-silicon tracker composed of pixel and strip modules, designed to cope with the extreme conditions expected during High-Luminosity LHC runs. Thorough testing…

The process of association and tracking of sensor detections is a key element in providing situational awareness. When the targets in the scenario are dense and exhibit high maneuverability, Multi-Target Tracking (MTT) becomes a challenging…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-20 Rishabh Verma , R Rajesh , MS Easwaran

During the ATLAS phase II upgrade, the tracking system of the ATLAS experiment will be replaced by an all-silicon detector called the inner tracker (ITK) with a pixel detector as the most inner part. The monitoring data of the new system…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-05-17 A. Qamesh , R. Ahmad , D. Ecker , T. Fischer , M. Karagounis , P. Kind , S. Kersten , T. Krawutschke , L. Schreiter , C. Zeitnitz

During the High Luminosity LHC, the CMS detector will need charged particle tracking at the hardware trigger level to maintain a manageable trigger rate and achieve its physics goals. The tracklet approach is a track-finding algorithm based…