CDF — secondary vertex trigger

✍ Scribed by Donatella Lucchesi

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 758 KB
• Volume: 120
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0920-5632
• DOI: 10.1016/s0920-5632(03)01896-6

✦ Synopsis

For the CDF Collaboration

At the beginning of 2002 a new data taking with an upgraded trigger system started for the CDF collaboration. One of the major improvements is the track trigger. A fast processor reconstructs tracks in the central drift chamber and the Silicon Vertex Tracker combines these tracks with the silicon vertex detector information to have track parameters with a precision as good as the offline reconstruction.

This system allows CDF to trigger on tracks significantly displaced from the primary vertex with high efficiency for signal events like charm and beauty and to keep low background rates. The performances, in terms of resolution and efficiency, of both the processors are illustrated and the firsts physics results are discussed.