The ALICE trigger system for LHC Run 3
Abstract
The ALICE Central Trigger Processor (CTP) is going to be upgraded for LHC Run 3 with completely new hardware and a new Trigger and Timing Control (TTC-PON) system based on a Passive Optical Network (PON) system. The new trigger system has been designed as dead time free and able to transmit trigger data at 9.6 Gbps. A new universal trigger board has been designed, where by changing the FMC card, it can function as a CTP or as a LTU. It is based on the Xilinx Kintex Ultrascale FPGA and upgraded TTC-PON. The new trigger system and the prototype of the trigger board will be presented.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1711.01200,
title = {The ALICE trigger system for LHC Run 3},
author = {M. Krivda and D. Evans and K. L. Graham and A. Jusko and R. Lietava and O. Villalobos Baillie and N. Zardoshti and M. Bombara and M. Sefcik and I Kralik and L. A. Perez Moreno},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1711.01200},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
5 pages, 2 figures. Submitted to Proceedings of the Topical Workshop on Electronics for Particle Physics (TWEPP 2017), University of Santa Cruz, California USA, September 11th-14th 2017