The proposed level-3 trigger system for STAR

Author

Adler, C. ; Berger, J. ; Demello, M. ; Flierl, D. ; Landgraf, J. ; Lange, J.S. ; LeVine, M.J. ; Lindenstruth, V. ; Ljubicic, A., Jr. ; Nelson, J. ; Roehrich, D. ; Schafer, E. ; Schambach, J.J. ; Schmischke, D. ; Schulz, M.W. ; Stock, R. ; Struck, C. ; Yep

Author_Institution

Frankfurt Univ., Germany

Volume

47

Issue

2

fYear

2000

fDate

4/1/2000 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

358

Lastpage

361

Abstract

The level-3 trigger system of the STAR experiment will in the final stage consist of a farm of 24 ALPHA/Linux processors, interconnected by SCI (Scalable Coherent Interface). The system will perform online tracking of N_track⩾8000 tracks per event (N_point⩽45 per track). The track data will be transferred to a global level-3 CPU (expected data transfer rate ≃48 MB/s), performing online event analysis tasks (e.g. invariant mass reconstruction) with a design trigger input rate of R=100 Hz (R=20 Hz for a prototype system)

Keywords

data acquisition; high energy physics instrumentation computing; trigger circuits; ALPHA/Linux processors; STAR; invariant mass reconstruction; level-3 trigger system; scalable coherent interface; Accelerated aging; Data acquisition; Event detection; Filtering; Laboratories; Large-scale systems; Performance analysis; Plasma accelerators; Production systems; Prototypes;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9499

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/23.846181

Filename

846181