Speaker
Dr.
Tim Head
(CERN)
Description
The LHCb experiment is a spectrometer dedicated to the study of heavy
flavour at the LHC. The current LHCb trigger system consists of a hardware level, which
reduces the LHC inelastic collision rate of 13MHz to 1 MHz, at which
the entire detector is read out. In a second level, implemented in a
farm of 20k parallel-processing CPUs, the event rate is reduced to
about 5 kHz. We review the performance of the LHCb trigger system,
focusing on the High Level Trigger, during Run I of the LHC.
The High Level Trigger showcased a number of pioneering concepts, for
example : the deployment of an inclusive multivariate B-hadron tagger
as the main physics trigger of the experiment, buffering of events to
local disks in order to leverage the otherwise idle resources when the
LHC does not produce collisions, and simulation-free event-by-event
trigger efficiency corrections.
The LHCb experiment plans a major upgrade of the detector and DAQ
system in the LHC shutdown of 2018. In this upgrade, a purely software
based trigger system is being developed, which will have to process
the full 30 MHz of inelastic collisions delivered by the LHC. We
demonstrate that the planned architecture will be able to meet this
challenge, particularly in the context of running stability and long
term reproducibility of the trigger decisions.
This talk will cover the design and performance of the LHCb trigger
system in Run I as well as the planned improvements in the upgrade of
the LHCb experiment.
Primary authors
Prof.
Gerhard Raven
(NIKHEF & VU Amsterdam)
Dr.
Johannes Albrecht
(TU Dortmund)
Dr.
Vladimir Gligorov
(CERN)
