Fast Tracker: A hardware real time track finder for the ATLAS trigger system

N. Kimura

doi:10.1088/1748-0221/9/04/C04012

Fast Tracker: A hardware real time track finder for the ATLAS trigger system

N. Kimura^*

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School of Fundamental Science and Engineering

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Abstract

The Fast Tracker (FTK) is an integral part of the trigger upgrade program of the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). As the LHC luminosity approaches its design level of 10³⁴ cm^-2s^-1, the combinatorial problem posed by charged particle tracking becomes increasingly difficult due to the swelling of multiple interactions per bunch crossing. The FTK is a highly-parallel hardware system intended to provide high-quality tracks with transverse momentum above 1 GeV in real time for online trigger system. The FTK system's design, based on a mixture of advanced technologies, and the expected physics performance will be presented.

Original language	English
Article number	C04012
Journal	Journal of Instrumentation
Volume	9
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/9/04/C04012
Publication status	Published - 2014 Apr

Keywords

Trigger algorithms
Trigger concepts and systems (hardware and software)

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Mathematical Physics
Instrumentation

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