Upgrade
of Trigger and Data Acquisition Systems
for the LHC Experiments
Nicoletta Garelli
CERN
XXIII International Symposium on Nuclear Electronics and Computing, 12-19 September 2011, Varna, Bulgaria
Acknowledgment & Disclaimer
• I would like to thank David Francis, Benedetto Gorini,
Reiner Hauser, Frans Meijers, Andrea Negri, Niko
Neufeld, Stefano Mersi, Stefan Stancu and all other
colleagues for answering my questions and sharing
ideas.
• My apologizes for any mistakes, misinterpretations and
misunderstandings.
• This presentation is far to be a complete review of all
the trigger and data acquisition related activities
foreseen by the LHC experiments from 2013 to 2022.
• I will focus on the upgrade plans of ATLAS, CMS and
LHCb only.
9/13/2011
N. Garelli (CERN). NEC'2011
2
Outline
• Large Hadron Collider (LHC)
– today, design, beyond design
• LHC experiments
– design
– trigger & data acquisition systems
– upgrade challenges
• Upgrade plans
– ATLAS
– CMS
– LHCb
9/13/2011
N. Garelli (CERN). NEC'2011
3
LHC: a Discovery Machine
Goal: explore TeV energy scale to find Higgs Boson & New Physics beyond Standard
Model
How: Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, with possibility of steady increase of
luminosity  large discovery range
LHC Project in brief
• LEP tunnel: 27 km Ø, ~100 m
underground
• pp collisions, center of mass E = 14 TeV
• 4 interaction points  4 big detectors
Alice
• Particles travel in bunches at ~ c
• Bunches of O(1011) particles each
• Bunch Crossing frequency: 40 MHz
• Superconducting magnets cooled to 1.9 K
with 140 tons of liquid He. (Magnetic
ATLAS
field strength ~ 8.4 T)
• Energy of one beam = 362 MJ (300x
Tevatron)
9/13/2011
N. Garelli (CERN). NEC'2011
CMS
LHC
SPS
PS
LHCb
4
LHC: Today, Design, Beyond Design
Current Status
Design
Beyond Design
beam energy (TeV)
3.5 (½ design)
7 (7x Tevatron)
-
bunch spacing (ns)
50 (½ design)
25
-
colliding bunches nb
1331 (~½ design)
2808
-
peak luminosity (cm-2s-1) 3.1 1033 (~30% design)
1034 (30x Tevatron) 5 1034 (leveled)
bunch intensity,
protons/bunch (1011)
1.25 (>design)
1.15
1.7
3.4 (with 50 ns)
b* (m)
1 (~½ design)
0.55
0.15
1
b* = beam envelope at
Interaction Point (IP),
determined by magnets
arrangements & powering.
Smaller b* = Higher Luminosity
Interventions
needed to reach
design conditions
9/13/2011
N. Garelli (CERN). NEC'2011
2
LHC can go
further  Higher
Luminosity
5
LHC Schedule Model
Yearly Schedule
• operating at unexplored conditions  long way to reach design performance 
need for commissioning & testing periods
• one 2-month Technical Stop (TS). Best period for power saving: Dec-Jan
• every ~2 months of physics a shorter TS followed by a Machine Development (MD)
period necessary
• 1 month of heavy ion run (different physics program)
Jan
Feb
Mar
April
TS
HWC
Phys Phys
May
June
July
Aug
Sept Oct
Nov
Dec
Phys
TS+MD
Phys
Phys
Phy
TS+MD
Phys Phys
TS &
Ion
TS
Every 3 years a 1 year long (at least) shutdown needed for major
component upgrades
… and the experiments?
• profit from LHC TS & shutdown periods for improvements &
replacements
• LHC drives the schedule  experiments schedule has to be flexible
9/13/2011
N. Garelli (CERN). NEC'2011
6
LHC: Towards Design Conditions
 Don’t forget that life is not always easy
 Single Event Effects due to radiation
 Unidentified Falling Objects (UFO), fast beam losses
 What LHC can do as it is today:
 with 50 ns spacing: nb = 1380, bunch intensity = 1.7 1011, b* = 1.0 m
 L = 5 1033 cm-2s-1 at 3.5 TeV
 with 25 ns spacing: nb = 2808, bunch intensity = 1.2 1011, b* = 1.0 m
 L = 4 1033 cm-2s-1 at 3.5 TeV
 Not possible to reach design performance today:
1) Beam Energy: joints between s/c magnets limits to 3.5 TeV/beam
2) Beam Intensity: collimation limits luminosity to ~5 1033 cm-2s-1
with E = 3.5 TeV/beam
9/13/2011
N. Garelli (CERN). NEC'2011
7
LHC Draft Schedule – Consolidation
2013 CONSOLIDATION
E = 6.5-7 TeV
L = 1034 cm-2s-1
• fully repair joints
between s/c magnets
• install magnet clamps
• Electrical fault in bus
between super conducting
magnets caused 19.9.2008
accident  limit E to 3.5 TeV
• After joints reparation 7 TeV
will be reached, after dipole
training: O(100)
quench/sector  O(month)
hardware commissioning
9/13/2011
N. Garelli (CERN). NEC'2011
8
LHC Upgrade Draft Schedule – Phase1&2
• fully repair joints between s/c
E
=
6.5-7
TeV
New
collimation
system
2013 CONSOLIDATION
magnets
34 be protected
L = 10to
necessary
from
• install magnet clamps
high losses at higher luminosity
2017
2021
9/13/2011
PHASE 1
PHASE 2
• collimation upgrade
E = 7 TeV
L = 2 1034cm-2s-1 • injector upgrade (Linac4)
E = 7 TeV
L = 5 1034cm-2s-1
N. Garelli (CERN). NEC'2011
• new bigger quadrupoles 
smaller b*
• new RF Crab cavities
9
LHC Upgrade Draft Schedule
• fully repair joints between s/c
magnets
• install magnet clamps
2013 CONSOLIDATION
E = 6.5-7 TeV
L = 1034cm-2s-1
2017
• collimation upgrade
E = 7 TeV
L = 2 1034cm-2s-1 • injector upgrade (Linac4)
PHASE 1
• new bigger quadrupoles 
PHASE 2
E
=
7
TeV
2021
The Super-LHC L = 5 1034 cm-2s-1 smaller b*
• new RF Crab cavities
3000 fb-1 by the end of 2030
x103 wrt today
9/13/2011
N. Garelli (CERN). NEC'2011
10
LHC Experiments Design
• LHC environment (design)
– spp inelastic ~ 70 mb
Event Rate = 7 108 Hz
– Bunch Cross (BC) every 25 ns (40
MHz) ~ 22 interactions every
“active” BC
– 1 interesting collision is rare &
always hidden within ~22 minimum
bias collisions = pile-up
• Stringent requirements
− fast electronics response to resolve
individual bunch crossings
− high granularity (= many electronics
channels) to avoid that a pile-up
event(1) goes in the same detector
element as the interesting event(1)
− radiation resistant
(1) Event
9/13/2011
= snapshot of values of all front-end electronics elements containing particle signals from single BC
N. Garelli (CERN). NEC'2011
11
LHC Upgrade: Effects on Experiments
2013
2014
2017
2018
2021
2022
Challenge for
experiments: LHC
luminosity x10
higher than today
after second long
shutdown (phase 1)
• Higher peak luminosity  Higher pile-up
– more complex trigger selection
– higher detector granularity
– radiation hard electronics
• Higher accumulated luminosity  radiation damage: need to replace
components
– sensors: Inner Tracker in particular (~200 MCHF/experiment)
– electronics? not guaranteed after 10 y use
9/13/2011
N. Garelli (CERN). NEC'2011
12
Interesting Physics at LHC
s tot  100 mb Total (elastic, diffractive, inelastic)
cross-section of proton-proton collision
s tot
s H (500 GeV)
DESIGN
Higgs
-> 4m ~22 MinBias
100 mb

 1011
1 pb
Find a needle …
Fluegge, G. 1994, Future
Research in High Energy
Physics, Tech. rep
…in the haystack!
9/13/2011
BEYOND DESIGN 
5x bigger haystack
~100 MinBias
Cross-section of SM
Higgs Boson production
s H (500 GeV)  1 pb
N. Garelli (CERN). NEC'2011
13
Trigger & Data Acquisition (DAQ) Systems
• @ LHC nominal conditions 
O(10) TB/s of data produced
40 MHz
O(10)TB/s
• Trigger&DAQ: select & store
interesting data for analysis at
O(100) MB/s
Trigger &
DAQ
Local Storage
O(100)MB/s
CERN Data
Storage
9/13/2011
– mostly useless data (min. bias
events)
– impossible to store them
– TRIGGER: select interesting events
(the Higgs boson in the haystack)
– DAQ: convey data to local mass
storage
– Network: the backbone, large
Ethernet networks with O(103) Gbit &
10-Gbit ports, O(102) switches
• Until now: high efficiency (>90%)
N. Garelli (CERN). NEC'2011
14
Comparing LHC Experiments Today
Experiment Read-out
channels
Trigger
Levels
Read-Out Links
(type, out, #)
Level 0-1-2
Rate (Hz)
Event Size
(B)
HLT Out
(MB/s)
ATLAS
ATLAS
~90 106
3
S-link, 160 Mb/s
~1600
L1 ~ 105
L2 ~ 3 103
1.5 106
300
CMS
CMS
~90 106
2
S-link64, 400
Mb/s
~500
L1 ~ 105
106
600
LHCb
LHCb
~1 106
2
G-link, 200 Mb/s
~400
L0 ~ 106
5.5 104
70
Similar read-out links
ATLAS: partial & on-demand read-out @L2
CMS & LHCb: read-out everything @L1
9/13/2011
N. Garelli (CERN). NEC'2011
15
ATLAS Trigger & DAQ (today)
Trigger Info
Trigger
40 MHz
DAQ
<2.5 ms
Level 1
40 MHz
ATLAS Event
1.5 MB/25 ns
Calo/Muon
Detectors Other Detectors
Detector Read-Out
L1 Accept
75 (100) kHz
75 kHz
ATLAS Data
Regions Of Interest
FE
FE
FE
ROD
ROD
ROD
112 GB/s
~40 ms
ReadOut System
Level 2
~ 3 kHz
~4 sec
Event Filter
~ 200 Hz
High Level Trigger
ROI
Requests
L2 Accept
~3 kHz
EF Accept
~200 Hz
ROI data
(~2%)
Data Collection
Network
Event
Builder
~4.5 GB/s
SubFarmInput
Event Filter
Network
SubFarmOutput
DataFlow
~ 300 MB/s
CERN Data
Storage
9/13/2011
N. Garelli (CERN). NEC'2011
16
CMS Trigger & DAQ (today)
40 MHz
• LV1 trigger HW:
– custom electronics
– rate from 40 MHz to 100 kHz
O(ms)
Level 1
Trigger
• Event Building
– 1st stage based on Myrinet
technology: FED-builder
– 2nd stage based on TCP/IP over
GBE: RU-builder
– 8 independent identical DAQ
slices
– 100 GB/s throughput
• HLT: PC farm
100 kHz
Front-End pipelines
Read-out buffers
Switching Networks
O(s)
High Level
Trigger
– event driven
– rate from 100 kHz to O(100) Hz
9/13/2011
Detectors
N. Garelli (CERN). NEC'2011
100 Hz
Processors farms
Mass storage
17
Experiments Challenges
Beyond Design
•
•
•
•
Beyond design  new working point to be established
Higher pile-up  increase pattern recognition problems
Impossible to change calorimeter detectors (budget, time, manpower)
Necessary to change inner tracker
– current damaged by radiation
– needs for more granularity
• Level-1 @ higher pile-up  select all interesting physics
– simple increase of thresholds in pT not possible: lot of physics will be lost
– more sophisticated decision criteria needed
• move software algorithms into electronics
• muon chambers  better resolution for trigger required
• add inner tracker information to Level-1
• Longer Level-1 decision time  longer latency
• More complex reconstruction in HLT
– more computing power required
9/13/2011
N. Garelli (CERN). NEC'2011
18
DAQ Challenges
• Problem:
– which read-out ?
– at which bandwidth?
– which electronics?
• Higher detector granularity  higher number of read-out
channels  increased event size
• Longer latency for Level-1 decisions  possible changes in all subdetector read-out systems
• Larger amount of data to be treated by network & DAQ
– higher data rate  network upgrade to accommodate higher bandwidth
needs
– need for increased local data storage
• Possibly higher HLT output rate if increased global data storage
(Grid) allows
9/13/2011
N. Garelli (CERN). NEC'2011
19
As of Today: Difficult Planning
• Hard to plan
– while maintaining running experiments
– with uncertain schedule
• Upgrade plans driven by
– Trigger: guarantee good & flexible selection
– DAQ: guarantee high data taking efficiency
• New technologies might be needed
– Trigger: new L1 trigger & more powerful HLT
– DAQ: read-out links, electronics &network
• To be considered
– replacing some components may damage others
– new architecture must be compatible with existing components
in case of partial upgrade
9/13/2011
N. Garelli (CERN). NEC'2011
20
ATLAS
A Toroidal LHC
ApparatuS
9/13/2011
N. Garelli (CERN). NEC'2011
21
ATLAS Draft Schedule – Consolidation
 TDAQ farms & networks
E = 6.5-7 TeV
2013 CONSOLIDATION
consolidation
L = 1034 cm-2s-1
 Sub-detector read-out
upgrades to enable Level-1
output of 100 kHz
 Current innermost pixel layer
will have significant radiation
damage, largely reduced
detector efficiency
 replacement needed by 2015
 Insertable B-Layer (IBL) built
around a new beam-pipe &
slipped inside the current
detector

9/13/2011
N. Garelli (CERN). NEC'2011
22
Evolution of TDAQ Farm
• Today: architecture with many farms & network domains:
– cpu&network resources balancing on 3 different farms (L2, EB, EF)
requires expertise
– 2 trigger steering instances (L2, EF)
– 2 separate networks (DC & EF)
– huge configuration
• Proposal: merge L2, EB, EF within a single homogeneous
system
– each node can perform the whole HLT selection steps
• L2 processing & data collection based on ROIs
• event building
• event filter processing on the full event
– automatic system balance
– a single HLT instance
9/13/2011
N. Garelli (CERN). NEC'2011
23
TDAQ Network Proposal
• Current network architecture:
ROS
ROS
ROS
ROS
– system working well
– EF core router: single point of
failure
– new technologies
• 2013: replacement of cores
mandatory (exceeded lifetime)
DC
SV
SV
PU
PU
XPU
PU
XPU
XPU
• Proposal: merge DC&EF
networks  OK with new chassis
some cost reduction
perfect for TDAQ farms evolution
mixing functionalities
reduce scaling potential with actual TDAQ
farms configuration
9/13/2011
N. Garelli (CERN). NEC'2011
SFI
SFI
XPU
XPU
XPU
PU
XPU
XPU
EF
SFO
SFO
EFEF
EF
24
ATLAS Upgrade Draft Schedule – Phase1
2013
E = 6.5-7 TeV • TDAQ farm & network consolidation
CONSOLIDATION
L = 1034cm-2s-1 • L1 @ 100 kHz
• IBL
Level-1 Upgrade to cope
2017
PHASE 1
E = 7 TeV
with pile-up after phase-1
L = 2 1034 cm-2s-1
• New muon detector
Small Wheel (SW)
• Provide increased
calorimeter granularity
• Level-1 topological
trigger
• Fast Track Processor (FTK)
9/13/2011
N. Garelli (CERN). NEC'2011
25
New Muon Small Wheel (SW)
• Muon precision chambers (CSC &
MDT) performance deteriorated
− need to replace with a better detector
• Exploit new SW to provide also
trigger information
− today: 3 trigger stations in barrel (RPC)
& end-caps (TGC)  New SW = 4th
trigger station
− reduce fake
− improve pT resolution
− level-1 track segment with 1 mrad
resolution
• Micromegas detector: new
technology which could be used
9/13/2011
N. Garelli (CERN). NEC'2011
Small Wheel
26
L1 Topological Trigger
• Proposal: additional electronics to have a Level-1
trigger based on topology criteria, to keep it efficient at
high luminosities: Df, Dh, angular distance, back-toback, not back-to-back, mass
– di-electron  low lepton pT in Z, ZZ/ZW,WW, H→WW/ZZ/tt
and multi-leptons SUSY modes
– jet topology, muon isolation, …
• New topological trigger processor with input from
calorimeter & muon detectors, connected to new
Central Trigger Processor
• Consequence: longer latency, develop common tools
for reconstructing topology both in muon & calorimeter
detectors
9/13/2011
N. Garelli (CERN). NEC'2011
27
Fast Track Processor (FTK)
Good match between
Pre-stored & Recorded
patterns
• Introduce highly parallel processor:
– for full Si-Tracker
– provides tracking for all L1-accepted events
within O(25μs)
Pattern from
reconstruction
 Reconstruct tracks >1 GeV
–
–
–
–
90% efficiency compared to offline
track isolation for lepton selection
fast identification of b & τ jets
primary vertex identification
Pre-stored patterns
• Tracks reconstruction has 2 time-consuming stages:
Discarded patterns
– pattern recognition  Associative memory
– track fitting  FPGA
• After L1, before L2
– HLT selection software interface to FTK output (tracks available earlier)
9/13/2011
N. Garelli (CERN). NEC'2011
28
ATLAS Upgrade Draft Schedule – Phase2
2013
2017
2021
9/13/2011
• Reduce heterogeneity in
PHASE
0
1. Full digital read-out
34
-2of
-1 calorimeter (data & trigger)
E = 6.5-7 TeV
L = 10 cm s
TDAQ farms & networks
• faster data transmission
• trigger access to full calorimeter resolution (provides
• FTK identification)
finer cluster
E = 7and
TeVbetter electron
PHASE 1
-2s-1 • L1 Topological trigger
= 2 1034 cm
 proposedLsolution:
fast
rad-tolerant 10 Gb/s links
PHASE 2
E = 7 TeV
L = 5 1034 cm-2s-1
N. Garelli (CERN). NEC'2011
2. Precision muon
chambers used in trigger
logic  dismount as less
as possible
3. L1 Track Trigger
29
Improve L1 Muon Trigger – Phase2
Current muon trigger:
• trigger logic assumes tracks to come from interaction point (IP)
• pT resolution limited by IP smearing (Phase2: 50mm  ~150mm)
• MDT resolution 100 times better than trigger chambers (RPC)
 Proposal: use precision chambers (MDT) in trigger logic
– reduce rates in barrel
– no need for vertex assumption
– improve selectivity for high-pT muons
• Current limitation: MDT read-out serial & asynchronous
 Phase2: improve MDT electronics performance (solve latency problem)
• Fast MDT readout options:
– seeded/tagged method
use information from trigger chambers to define RoI & only consider small # of MDT tubes which
falls into the RoI. Longer latency
– unseeded/untagged method
stand-alone track finding in MDT chambers. Larger bandwidth required to transfer MDT hit
pattern
9/13/2011
N. Garelli (CERN). NEC'2011
30
Track Trigger – Phase2
New Inner Detector
• only with silicon sensors
• better resolution, reduced occupancy
• more pixel layers for b-tagging
• Possible to introduce L1 track trigger  keep L1 rate @ 100 kHz
– combine with calorimeter to improve electron selection
– correlate muon with track in ID & reduce fake tracks
– possible L1 b-tagging
• L1 track trigger Self Seeded
– use high pT tracks as seed
– need fast communication to form coincidences between layers
– latency of ~3ms
• L1 track trigger ROI Seeded
– need to introduce a L0 trigger to select RoI at L1
– long ~10ms L1 latency
9/13/2011
N. Garelli (CERN). NEC'2011
31
multi-jet event at 7 TeV
CMS
The Compact
Muon Solenoid
9/13/2011
N. Garelli (CERN). NEC'2011
32
CMS Consolidation Phase
2013
CONSOLIDATION
E = 6.5-7 TeV
Trigger & DAQ consolidation
34
-2
-1
L = 10 cm s
• x3 increase HLT farm
processing power
• replace HW for Online DB
Muons
CMS design: space for a 4th
layer of forward muon
chambers (CSC & RPCs)
• better trigger robustness in
1.2<|h|<1.8
• preserve low pT threshold
9/13/2011
N. Garelli (CERN). NEC'2011
33
CMS Upgrade Draft Schedule – Phase1
2013
CONSOLIDATION
E = 6.5-7 TeV
L = 1034 cm-2s-1
2017
PHASE 1
E = 7 TeV
L = 2 1034 cm-2s-1
Phase-1 requirements&plans as ATLAS
• radiation damage  change silicon
innermost tracker
• maintain Level-1 < 100 kHz, low
latency, good selection  tracking
info @ L1+ more granularity in
calorimeters
 DAQ evolution to cope with new
design
9/13/2011
N. Garelli (CERN). NEC'2011
• Trigger & DAQ consolidation
• 4th layer muon detectors
• New pixel detector
• Upgrade hadron
calorimeter (HCAL) 
silicon photomultipliers.
Finer segmentation of
readout in depth
• New trigger system
• Event Builder & HLT
farm upgrade
34
CMS New Pixel Detector –
Phase1
• New pixel detector (4 barrel layers, 3 end-caps)
• Need for replacement
– radiation damage
(innermost layer might be replaced before)
– read-out chips just adequate for L=1034 cm-2s-1
with 4% dynamic data loss due to read-out latency & buffer  to
improve
• Goal
– gives better tracking performance
– improved b-tagging capabilities
– reduce material using a new cooling system CO2 instead of C6F14
9/13/2011
N. Garelli (CERN). NEC'2011
35
CMS New Trigger System – Phase1
• Introduce regional calorimeter trigger
– to use full granularity for internal processing
– more sophisticated clustering & isolation algorithms to handle
higher rates and complex events
• New infrastructure based on μTCA for increased bandwidth,
maintenance, flexibility
• Muon trigger upgrade to handle additional channels & faster
FPGA
moving from custom ASICs to
powerful modern FPGAs with
huge processing & I/O capability
to implement more sophisticated
algorithms
9/13/2011
Advanced Telecommunications
Computing Architecture (ATCA).
Dramatic increase in computing
power & I/O
N. Garelli (CERN). NEC'2011
36
CMS Upgrade Draft Schedule – Phase2
2013 CONSOLIDATION
2017
2021
9/13/2011
PHASE 1
PHASE 2
E = 6.5-7 TeV
L = 1034 cm-2s-1
E = 7 TeV
L = 2 1034 cm-2s-1
E = 7 TeV
L = 5 1034cm-2s-1
N. Garelli (CERN). NEC'2011
• Trigger & DAQ consolidation
• 4th layer muon detectors
• New pixel detector
• Upgrade HCAL  silicon
photomultipliers
• New trigger system
• EventBuilder&HLT farm upgrade
• Install new tracking system
 track trigger
• Major consolidation of
electronics systems
• Calorimeter end-caps
• DAQ system upgrade
37
New Tracker
• R/D projects for new sensors, new front-end, high speed link
(customized version of GBT), tracker geometry arrangement
– >200M pixels, >100M strips
• Level-1 @ high luminosity  need for L1 tracking
• Delivering information for Level-1
– impossible to use all channels for individual
triggers
– Idea: exploit strong 3.8 T magnetic field and
design modules able to reject signals from
low-pT particles
• Different discrimination proposals to
reject hits from low-pT tracks  data
transmission at 40 MHz feasible:
1
2
pass
pass
fail
fail
1. within a single sensor, based on cluster
~ 1 mm
width
2. correlating signals from stacked sensor pairs
9/13/2011
N. Garelli (CERN). NEC'2011
~ 100 μm
38
B0s meson  μ+ μ-
LHCb
The Large Hadron
Collider beauty
experiment
9/13/2011
N. Garelli (CERN). NEC'2011
39
LCHb Trigger & DAQ Today
Single-arm forward spectrometer (~300 mrad acceptance) for
precision measurements of CP violation & rare B-meson decays
40 MHz
L0
e, g
< 1 MHz
HW
L0
had
L0
m
HLT1. High pT
tracks with IP != 0
SW
30 kHz Global reconstruction
HLT2. Inclusive &
exclusive selection
3 kHz
9/13/2011
Event size
~35 kB
• Designed to run with average # of collisions per
BX ~ 0.5 & nb~2600  L ~ 2 1032 cm-2s-1 
running with L = 3.3 1032 cm-2s-1
• Reads-out 10 times more often than ATLAS/CMS
to reconstruct secondary decay vertices  very
high rate of small events (~55 kB today)
• L0 trigger: high efficiency on dimuon events, but
removes half of the hadronic signals
• All trigger candidates stored in raw data &
compared with offline candidates:
• HLT1: tight CPU constraint (12 ms), reconstruct
particles in VELO, determine position of vertices
• HLT2: Global track reconstruction, searches for
secondary vertices
N. Garelli (CERN). NEC'2011
40
LCHb Upgrade – Phase1
• 2011: L ~O(150%) of design, O(35%) of
bunches
• after 2017: Higher rate  higher ET
threshold  even less hadronic signals
40 MHz
CPU farm
Custom
electronics
Calo, Muon
LLT
pT of had, m, e,/y
1-40 MHz
All sub-detectors
HLT
Tracking, vertexing,
inclusive/exclusive
selections
20 kHz
9/13/2011
Interesting physics with ~ 50 fb-1
(design: 5 fb-1):
• precision measurements (charm CPV, …)
• searches (~1 GeV Majorana
neutrinos,…)
UPGRADE NEEDED
• increase read-out to 40 MHz & eliminate
trigger limitations
• LLT will not simply reduce rate as L0, but will enrich
selected sample
• new VELO detector
• no major changes for muon & calo
• upgrade electronics & DAQ
• data link from detector: components from GBT
readout-network made for ~ 24 Tb/s
• common back-end read-out board: TELL40. Parallel
optical I/Os (12 x > 4.8 Gb/s), GBT compatible
N. Garelli (CERN). NEC'2011
41
Need for Bandwidth – Phase2
Read-out from cavern to counting room
Ethernet ~40 Gb/s
A
V
Front-End
S-link
T Board
M
Board
~200 Mb/s
PC
~200
Mb/s
C
E
Read-Out System
GBT ~5 Gb/s
A
~40 Mb/s ~40 Gb/s
Ethernet
1 Gb/s
• New front-end GigaBit Transceiver (GBT) chipset
– point-to-point high speed bi-directional link to send data from/to counting
room at ~5Gb/s
– simultaneous transmission of data for DAQ, Slow Control, Timing Trigger &
Control (TTC) systems
– robust error correction scheme to correct errors caused by SEUs
• Advanced Telecommunications Computing Architecture (ATCA)
– point-to-point connections between crate modules
– higher bandwidth in output
• Which electronics in 20 y? Will VME be still ok? Do we need ATCA
functionality?
9/13/2011
N. Garelli (CERN). NEC'2011
42
Conclusion
• Trigger & DAQ systems worked extremely well until now
• After the long LHC shutdown of 2017: beyond design
– increased luminosity
– increased pile-up
• Experiments need to upgrade to work beyond design
– New Inner Tracker: radiation damage & more pile-up
– Level-1 trigger: more complex hardware selection & deal with
longer latency
– New read-out links: higher bandwidth
– Scale DAQ and Network
• Difficult to define upgrade strategy as of today
– unstable schedule
– maintaining current experiments
• One thing is sure: LHC experiments upgrade will be exciting
9/13/2011
N. Garelli (CERN). NEC'2011
43