Speaker
M. Sutton
(UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON)
Description
The architecture and performance of the ZEUS Global Track Trigger
(GTT) are described. Data from the ZEUS silicon Micro Vertex
detector's HELIX readout chips, corresponding to 200k channels, are
digitized by 3 crates of ADCs and PowerPC VME board computers push
cluster data for second level trigger processing and strip data for
event building via Fast and GigaEthernet network connections.
Additional tracking information from the central tracking chamber
and forward straw tube tracker are interfaced into the 12 dual CPU
PC farm of the global track trigger where track and vertex finding
is performed by separately threaded algorithms.
The system is data driven at the ZEUS first level trigger rates
<500Hz, generating trigger results after a mean time of 10ms. The
GTT integration into the ZEUS second level trigger and recent
performance are reviewed.
Primary authors
M. Sutton
(UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON)
ZEUS GTT group
