INVESTIGADORES
WAHLBERG Hernan Pablo
artículos
Título:
THE FIRST-LEVEL TRIGGER OF THE HERA-B EXPERIMENT: PERFORMANCE AND EXPECTATIONS.
Autor/es:
V. BALAGURA, M. BRUINSMA, H. FLECKENSTEIN, J. FLAMMER, J. GLASS, R. MANNER, A. MICHETTI, M. NORENBERG, R. PERNACK, V. POPOV, D. RESSING, I. RIU, A. SBRIZZI, B. SCHWINGENHEUER, A. SOMOV, U. UWER, H. WAHLBERG, A. WURZ.
Revista:
NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTS AND METHODS IN PHYSICS RESEARCH A - ACCELERATORS, SPECTROMETERS, DETECTORS AND ASSOCIATED EQUIPAMENT
Referencias:
Año: 2002 vol. 494 p. 526 - 534
ISSN:
0168-9002
Resumen:
HERA-B is a fixed target spectrometer which uses 920 GeV protons
incident on various target materials. The experiment is aimed to study
various aspects of beauty and charm physics. The detector is designed
to operate at high interaction rates with an average of 45
interactions per event. The First-Level Trigger (FLT) is required to
reduce the input rate by more than two orders of magnitude while
keeping high efficiency for beauty and charm channels. The trigger
performs online track reconstruction and takes decisions based on
particle momenta or pair masses. A pipeline architecture is implemented
on about 100 pipelined hardware processors to perform this job. The
working principle and first results of the FLT performance based on the
data acquired during the run in the year 2000 are described.