ATLAS Hardware-Based Endcap Muon Trigger for Future Upgrades

Abstract

The large Hadron collider (LHC) is expected to increase its center-of-mass energy from 13 to 14 TeV for Run 3 scheduled from 2022 to 2024. After Run 3, upgrades for the high-luminosity-LHC (HL-LHC) program are planned and the operation will start in 2027, increasing the instantaneous luminosity to 5.0-7.5 times its nominal luminosity. Continuous upgrades of the ATLAS trigger system are planned to cope with the high event rate and to keep the physics acceptance. During the long shutdown period before Run 3, new detectors will be installed to improve the trigger performance. A new trigger logic, combining information from detectors located outside of the magnetic field and new detectors installed inside the magnetic field, will be introduced for Run 3 to reduce the trigger rate. In order to handle data from the various detectors, a new trigger processor board has been developed and the design is presented. During the upgrade for HL-LHC, the trigger and readout systems of the first level hardware-based part are planned to be upgraded. Full-granularity information will be transferred to the trigger processor board which enables more OFF-line like track reconstruction in the hardware-based system. To handle the full-granularity information and perform the hardware-based track reconstruction, the trigger processor board will be equipped with a field programmable gate array (FPGA) with hundreds of transceivers and a large memory. Expected performance for the hardware-based endcap muon trigger in Run 3 and HL-LHC will also be presented.