A specialized processor for track reconstruction at the LHC crossing rate
Abstract
We present the results of an R&D study of a specialized processor capable of precisely reconstructing events with hundreds of charged-particle tracks in pixel detectors at 40 MHz, thus suitable for processing LHC events at the full crossing frequency. For this purpose we design and test a massively parallel pattern-recognition algorithm, inspired by studies of the processing of visual images by the brain as it happens in nature. We find that high-quality tracking in large detectors is possible with sub-μs latencies when this algorithm is implemented in modern, high-speed, high-bandwidth FPGA devices. This opens a possibility of making track reconstruction happen transparently as part of the detector readout.
- Publication:
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Journal of Instrumentation
- Pub Date:
- September 2014
- DOI:
- 10.1088/1748-0221/9/09/C09001
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1406.7220
- Bibcode:
- 2014JInst...9C9001A
- Keywords:
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- Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors;
- High Energy Physics - Experiment
- E-Print:
- Presented by G.Punzi at the conference on "Instrumentation for Colliding Beam Physics" (INSTR14), 24 Feb to 1 Mar 2014, Novosibirsk, Russia. Submitted to JINST proceedings