The ATLAS fast TracKer system

G Aad; B Abbott; DC Abbott; AA Abud; K Abeling; DK Abhayasinghe; SH Abidi; OS AbouZeid; NL Abraham; H Abramowicz; H Abreu; Y Abulaiti; BS Acharya; B Achkar; L Adam; CA Bourdarios; L Adamczyk; L Adamek; J Adelman; A Adiguzel; S Adorni; T Adye; AA Affolder; Y Afik; C Agapopoulou; MN Agaras; A Aggarwal; C Agheorghiesei; JA Aguilar-Saavedra; A Ahmad; F Ahmadov; WS Ahmed; X Ai; G Aielli; S Akatsuka; M Akbiyik; TPA Åkesson; E Akilli; AV Akimov; K Al Khoury; GL Alberghi; J Albert; P Albicocco; MJA Verzini; S Alderweireldt; M Aleksa; IN Aleksandrov; C Alexa; T Alexopoulos; A Alfonsi; F Alfonsi; M Alhroob; B Ali; S Ali; M Aliev; G Alimonti; J Alison; C Allaire; BMM Allbrooke; PP Allport; A Aloisio; F Alonso; C Alpigiani; EA Camelia; MA Estevez; MG Alviggi; YA Coutinho; A Ambler; L Ambroz; C Amelung; D Amidei; SPA Dos Santos; S Amoroso; CS Amrouche; C Anastopoulos; N Andari; T Andeen; JK Anders; JT Anderson; SY Andrean; A Andreazza; V Andrei; CR Anelli; S Angelidakis; A Angerami; AV Anisenkov; A Annovi; C Antel; MT Anthony; E Antipov; M Antonelli; DJA Antrim; F Anulli; M Aoki; JAA Pozo; MA Aparo; LA Bella; N Aranzabal; VA Ferraz; RA Pereira

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The ATLAS fast TracKer system

G Aad, B Abbott, DC Abbott, AA Abud, K Abeling, DK Abhayasinghe, SH Abidi, OS AbouZeid, NL Abraham, H Abramowicz, H Abreu, Y Abulaiti, BS Acharya, B Achkar, L Adam, CA Bourdarios, L Adamczyk, L Adamek, J Adelman, A Adiguzel Show all

Journal of Instrumentation | Published : 2021

DOI: 10.1088/1748-0221/16/07/P07006

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Abstract

The ATLAS Fast TracKer (FTK) was designed to provide full tracking for the ATLAS high-level trigger by using pattern recognition based on Associative Memory (AM) chips and fitting in high-speed field programmable gate arrays. The tracks found by the FTK are based on inputs from all modules of the pixel and silicon microstrip trackers. The as-built FTK system and components are described, as is the online software used to control them while running in the ATLAS data acquisition system. Also described is the simulation of the FTK hardware and the optimization of the AM pattern banks. An optimization for long-lived particles with large impact parameter values is included. A test of the FTK syst..

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We acknowledge the support of ANPCyT, Argentina; YerPhI, Armenia; ARC, Australia; BMWFW and FWF, Austria; ANAS, Azerbaijan; SSTC, Belarus; CNPq and FAPESP, Brazil; NSERC, NRC and CFI, Canada; CERN; ANID, Chile; CAS, MOST and NSFC, China; COLCIENCIAS, Colombia; MSMT CR, MPO CR and VSC CR, Czech Republic; DNRF and DNSRC, Denmark; IN2P3-CNRS and CEA-DRF/IRFU, France; SRNSFG, Georgia; BMBF, HGF and MPG, Germany; GSRT, Greece; RGC and Hong Kong SAR, China; ISF and Benoziyo Center, Israel; INFN, Italy; MEXT and JSPS, Japan; CNRST, Morocco; NWO, Netherlands; RCN, Norway; MNiSW and NCN, Poland; FCT, Portugal; MNE/IFA, Romania; JINR; MES of Russia and NRC KI, Russian Federation; MESTD, Serbia; MSSR, Slovakia; ARRS and MIZS, Slovenia; DST/NRF, South Africa; MICINN, Spain; SRC and Wallenberg Foundation, Sweden; SERI, SNSF and Cantons of Bern and Geneva, Switzerland; MOST, Taiwan; TAEK, Turkey; STFC, United Kingdom; DOE and NSF, United States of America. In addition, individual groups and members have received support from BCKDF, CANARIE, Compute Canada, CRC and IVADO, Canada; Beijing Municipal Science & Technology Commission, China; COST, ERC, ERDF, Horizon 2020 and Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions, European Union; Investissements d'Avenir Labex, Investissements d'Avenir Idex and ANR, France; DFG and AvH Foundation, Germany; Herakleitos, Thales and Aristeia programmes co-financed by EU-ESF and the Greek NSRF, Greece; BSF-NSF and GIF, Israel; La Caixa Banking Foundation, CERCA Programme Generalitat de Catalunya and PROME-TEO and GenT Programmes Generalitat Valenciana, Spain; Goran Gustafssons Stiftelse, Sweden; The Royal Society and Leverhulme Trust, United Kingdom.