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Local Performance of the Local Cathode Strip Chamber Trigger in a Muon Beam Test. Overview:. Introduction to LHC Overview of CMS Overview of Trigger Architecture Overview of Cathode Strip Chamber (CSC) Level-1 Trigger System Plots for efficiency Conclusion. LHC.
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Local Performance of the Local Cathode Strip Chamber Trigger in a Muon Beam Test
Overview: • Introduction to LHC • Overview of CMS • Overview of Trigger Architecture • Overview of Cathode Strip Chamber (CSC) • Level-1 Trigger System • Plots for efficiency • Conclusion
LHC • 14 TeV center of mass energy • 27 km circumference
CMS What is a muon? Muons are point particles identical to electrons except over 200 times more massive (105.2 MeV) The illustration shows the smaller orbit for muons in a hydrogynic atom due to their mass
CMS Why Muons? • Muons are penetrating. • Electrons are too light to make it through absorbers • Taus are too unstable to make it through absorbers • Hadrons interact strongly with matter
Trigger Architecture • Need Trigger System to filter out data
Cathode Strip Chambers (CSC) • Provide 3-D tracks of charged particles called Local Charge Tracks (LCT’s)
Level-1 Trigger System • ALCT and CLCT find 2-D tracks • TMB receives and correlates these tracks to make a 3-D Correlated LCT • MPC receives up to 18 LCT’s from the different TMB’s and selects the best 3 • SR/SP receives the 3 LCT’s from the TMB
2004 Test Beam • 100GeV muons for asynchronous run • 100GeV pions for synchronous run (along with muons)
ALCT Trigger Modes • Trigger Mode 0: Accelerator Pattern or Collision Pattern • Trigger Mode 1: Acc. Pattern Only • Trigger Mode 2: Collision Pattern Only • Trigger Mode 3: Acc. Or Coll. But Acc. Pattern vetoes Coll. Coll. Pattern Acc. Pattern
Ghosts and Di-Muons Ghosts Di-muons • Occurs when 1 muon returns two LCT’s • Considered the same LCT if it occurs on the same strip AND differs by less than two wire groups • Is the converse of a Ghost • If two LCT’s are found and they don’t fit the definition of a Ghost, then it must be a TRUE di-muon
Ghost and Di-Muon Rates Di-muons Rates Ghost Rates
Number of Layers Required? There Are six possible layers We can require any number of those six; the default is 4 out of six This means that if any 4 of those layers matches then it is an LCT
Minimum Number of Layers Required vs. ALCT Trigger Mode (for “Miss4” Pattern)
Conclusions • Miss4 has high efficiency and provides very good discrimination against collision vs. accelerator patterns • Other parameters varied: ALCT delay, with and without an iron block, old and new ALCT firmware