The ATLAS high-level trigger (HLT) system provides software-based event selection after the initial LVL1 hardware trigger. It is composed of two stages, the LVL2 trigger and the event filter (EF). ...The LVL2 trigger performs event selection with optimized algorithms using selected data guided by Region of Interest pointers provided by the LVL1 trigger. Those events selected by LVL2 are built into complete events, which are passed to the EF for a further stage of event selection and classification using off-line algorithms. Events surviving the EF selection are passed for off-line storage. The two stages of HLT are implemented on processor farms. The concept of distributing the selection process between LVL2 and EF is a key element in the architecture, which allows it to be flexible to changes (luminosity, detector knowledge, background conditions, etc.) Although there are some differences in the requirements between these subsystems there are many commonalities. An overview of the dataflow (event selection) and supervision (control, configuration, monitoring) activities in the HLT is given, highlighting where commonalities between the two subsystems can be exploited and indicating where requirements dictate that implementations differ. An HLT prototype system has been built at CERN. Functional testing is being carried out in order to validate the HLT architecture.
Architecture of the ATLAS High Level Trigger Event Selection Software Armstrong, S.; Assamagan, K.; Baines, J.T. ...
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We present an overview of the strategy for Event Selection at the ATLAS High Level Trigger and describe the architecture and main components of the software developed for this purpose.
High-level triggers in ATLAS Radu, A.; Baines, J.T.M.; Baratella, A. ...
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The trigger and data-acquisition system of ATLAS, a general-purpose experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), will be based on three levels of online selection. Starting from the bunch-crossing ...rate of 40 MHz (an interaction rate of 1 GHz at design luminosity-/spl sim/ 10/sup 34/ cm/sup -2/s/sup -1/), the first level trigger (LVL1) will reduce the rate to about 75 kHz using purpose-built hardware. An additional factor of about 10/sup 3/ in rate reduction is to be provided by the high-level triggers (HLTs) system, with two main functional components: the second-level trigger (LVL2) and the event filter(EF). LVL2 has to provide a fast decision (guided by the information from LVL1), using only a fraction of the full event, however, already at full granularity and can combine all subdetectors. At the EF, a refined selection is made with the. capability of full event reconstruction and the use of detailed calibration and alignment parameters. The HLT software architecture will provide a common and rather "lightweight" framework, able to execute the various selection algorithms and to control the sequence of execution according to the event properties and configuration parameters. System flexibility is a strong requirement in order to adapt to changes, e.g., in luminosity and background conditions. This paper will present the approach chosen for the software design of the HLT selection framework and of the algorithm interface, giving examples for selection sequences and algorithms. Based on currently existing prototypes, results for both the expected physics (signal efficiency, background rejection) and system (execution time) performance will also be shown.
The ATLAS Level-2 Trigger Pilot Project Blair, R.; Dawson, J.; Haberichter, W. ...
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The Level-2 Trigger Pilot Project of ATLAS, one of the two general purpose LHC experiments, is part of the on-going program to develop the ATLAS high-level triggers (HLT). The Level-2 Trigger will ...receive events at up to 100 kHz, which has to be reduced to a rate suitable for full event-building of the order of 1 kHz. To reduce the data collection bandwidth and processing power required for the challenging Level-2 task it is planned to use Region of Interest guidance (from Level-1) and sequential processing. The Pilot Project included the construction and use of testbeds of up to 48 processing nodes, development of optimized components and computer simulations of a full system. It has shown how the required performance can be achieved, using largely commodity components and operating systems, and validated an architecture for the Level-2 system. This paper describes the principal achievements and conclusions of this project.
A total of 628 bp-1 of data collected with the ALEPH detector at centre-of-mass energies from 189 to 209 GeV is analysed in the search for gauge mediated SUSY breaking (GMSB) topologies. These ...topologies include two acoplanar photons, non-pointing single photons, acoplanar leptons, large impact parameter leptons, detached slepton decay vertices, heavy stable charged sleptons and multi-leptons plus missing energy final states. No evidence is found for new phenomena, and lower limits on masses of supersymmetric particles are derived. A scan of a minimal GMSB parameter space is performed and lower limits are set for the next-to-lightest supersymmetric particle (NLSP) mass at 54 GeV/c2 and for the mass scale parameter \(\Lambda\) at 10 TeV/c2, independently of the NLSP lifetime. Including the results from the neutral Higgs boson searches, a NLSP mass limit of 77 GeV/c2 is obtained and values of \(\Lambda\) up to 16 TeV/c2 are excluded.
Event data from proton-proton collisions at the LHC will be selected by the ATLAS experiment by a three level trigger system, which reduces the initial bunch crossing rate of 40 MHz at its first two ...trigger levels (LVL1+LVL2) to ~3 kHz. At this rate the Event-Builder collects the data from all Read-Out system PCs (ROSs) and provides fully assembled events to the the Event-Filter (EF), which is the third level trigger, to achieve a further rate reduction to ~200 Hz for permanent storage. The Event-Builder is based on a farm of 0 (100) PCs, interconnected via Gigabit Ethernet to 0 (150) ROSs. These PCs run Linux and multi-threaded software applications implemented in C++. All the ROSs and one third of the Event-Builder PCs are already installed and commissioned. Performance measurements have been exercised on this initial system, which show promising results that the required final data rates and bandwidth for the ATLAS event builder are in reach.
During 2006 and spring 2007, integration and commissioning of trigger and data acquisition (TDAQ) equipment in the ATLAS experimental area has progressed. Much of the work has focused on a final ...prototype setup consisting of around eighty computers representing a subset of the full TDAQ system. There have been a series of technical runs using this setup. Various tests have been run including those where around 6 k Level-1 preselected simulated proton-proton events have been processed in a loop mode through the trigger and dataflow chains. The system included the readout buffers containing the events, event building, second level and third level trigger processors. Aspects critical for the final system, such as event processing times, have been studied using different trigger algorithms as well as the different dataflow components.
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