Triggering Discoveries in High Energy Physics

Principles of triggering

13 Sept 2013, 10:30

1h

Seminar Hall (The Buisness School)

Pleanary Session 15

Speaker

Orlando Villalobos Baillie (University of Birmingham (GB))

Description

In this lecture reasons for having a trigger in a high-energy physics experimentwill be discussed . The idea of dead time is introduced and its effect explained. The importance of buffering in derandomizing events is explained. Simple examples from fixed target and collider experiments are given.