2–6 Feb 2026
TIFR, Mumbai
Asia/Kolkata timezone

A FPGA-based L1 trigger system design for STCF

3 Feb 2026, 14:30
15m
TIFR, Mumbai

TIFR, Mumbai

Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Homi Bhabha Road, Navy Nagar, Colaba, Mumbai 400005, India
Oral* (Presenter's registration yet to be completed) Trigger and DAQ hardware Parallel Session-IV

Speaker

HUANG, Yuhe

Description

The Super Tau-Charm Facility (STCF) is a new-generation of electron-positron collider operating in a center mass of energy range from 2 to 7 GeV with a peak luminosity of 0.5×1035 cm-2 s-1 at 4 GeV. The high physics event rate in the presence of high beam background poses a big challenge to the STCF trigger system. In light of the data features and the simulated beam background level in STCF, a FPGA-based hardware L1 trigger architecture was developed for the STCF experiment. The STCF L1 trigger system consists of two sub-trigger logics based on the main drift chamber (MDC) and the electro-magnetic calorimeter (ECAL), respectively, and a global trigger logic (GTL). A L1 trigger prototype system based on common readout board (CROB) was also developed to test the efficiency and latency of trigger algorithms. The MDC sub-trigger logic uses the information of stereo super layers in the MDC, achieving 99% tracking efficiency for tracks with pt above 150MeV/c with a latency of approximately 550 ns. By employing a region-based cluster identification and segmentation method, the ECAL sub-trigger logic has achieved low resource utilization of FPGA and a short latency of less than 150 ns. With an optimized matching logic and trigger table, the GTL can realize a signal trigger efficiency of higher than 99% for most events with charged tracks and higher than 97% for neutral events. The beam background trigger rate can be suppressed to be below 30 kHz.

Position Phd Student
Affiliation University of Science and Technology of China
Country China

Author

HUANG, Yuhe

Co-authors

FANG, Zhujun LIU, Jianbei (University of Science and Technology of China)

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