Physics – Instrumentation and Detectors
Scientific paper
2010-10-31
JINST 5:C12016,2010
Physics
Instrumentation and Detectors
These are the proceedings of a presentation given at the Topical Workshop of Electronics for Particle Physics 2010 in Aachen,
Scientific paper
10.1088/1748-0221/5/12/C12016
The outer shell of the ATLAS experiment at the LHC consists of a system of toroidal air-core magnets in order to allow for the precise measurement of the transverse momentum p$_T$ of muons, which in many physics channels are a signature of interesting physics processes. For the precise determination of the muon momentum Monitored Drift Tube chambers (MDT) with high position accuracy are used, while for the fast identification of muon tracks chambers with high time resolution are used, able to select muons above a predefined p$_T$ threshold for use in the first Level of the ATLAS triggering system (Level-1 trigger). When the luminosity of the LHC will be upgraded to 4-5 times the present nominal value (SLHC) in about a decade from now, an improvement of the selectivity of the ATLAS Level-1 triggering system will be mandatory in order to cope with the maximum allowed trigger rate of 100 kHz. For the Level-1 trigger of the ATLAS muon spectrometer this means an increase of the p$_T$ threshold for single muons. Due to the limited spatial resolution of the trigger chambers, however, the selectivity for tracks above ~20 GeV/c is insufficient for an effective reduction of the Level-1 rate. We describe how the track coordinates measured in the MDT precision chambers can be used to decisively improve the selectivity for high momentum tracks. The resulting increase in latency will also be discussed.
Dubbert Jörg
Horvat Sandra
Kortner Oliver
Kroha Hubert
Richter Robert
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