학술논문

The Second Level Trigger of the ATLAS Experiment at CERN's LHC
Document Type
article
Source
IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science. 51(3)
Subject
ATLAS
cluster
data acquisition
high-energy physics
network
object oriented
performance
testbed
trigger
Atomic
Molecular
Nuclear
Particle and Plasma Physics
Other Physical Sciences
Biomedical Engineering
Nuclear & Particles Physics
Language
Abstract
The ATLAS trigger reduces the rate of interesting events to be recorded for off-line analysis in three successive levels from 40 MHz to ∼ 100 kHz, ∼ 2 kHz and ∼ 200 Hz. The high level triggers and data acquisition system are designed to profit from commodity computing and networking components to achieve the required performance. In this paper, we discuss data flow aspects of the design of the second level trigger (LVL2) and present results of performance measurements.