• Title of article

    The multilevel trigger system of the DIRAC experiment

  • Author/Authors

    Afanasyev، نويسنده , , L. and Gallas، نويسنده , , M. and Goldin، نويسنده , , Maria D. and Gorin، نويسنده , , A. and Karpukhin، نويسنده , , V. and Kokkas، نويسنده , , Alexander P. and Kulikov، نويسنده , , A. and Kuroda، نويسنده , , K. and Manuilov، نويسنده , , I. and Okada، نويسنده , , K. and Schuetz، نويسنده , , C. and Sidorov، نويسنده , , A. and Steinacher، نويسنده , , M. and Takeutchi، نويسنده , , F. and Tauscher، نويسنده , , L. and Vlachos، نويسنده , , S. ، نويسنده ,

  • Pages
    14
  • From page
    376
  • To page
    389
  • Abstract
    The multilevel trigger system of the DIRAC experiment at CERN is presented. It includes a fast first level trigger as well as various trigger processors to select events with a pair of pions having a low relative momentum typical of the physical process under study. One of these processors employs the drift chamber data, another one is based on a neural network algorithm and the others use various hit-map detector correlations. Two versions of the trigger system used at different stages of the experiment are described. The complete system reduces the event rate by a factor of 1000 with respect to detectors’ single rates, the detection efficiency of events in the relative momentum range of interest being ⩾95%.
  • Keywords
    trigger , instrumentation , Elementary atoms
  • Journal title
    Astroparticle Physics
  • Record number

    2020550