CMS tracker upgrade meetings

News

To all CMS collaborators

On 19 July we have scheduled a meeting on SLHC tracking and trigger
upgrades. This is part of the series of meetings concerned with a
tracker upgrade for SLHC:
CMS Tracker at SLHC

The meeting will be held in CERN. See
"Joint SLHC Trigger-Tracker meeting"
for the agenda, which will be drafted soon.

The meeting is open to all CMS collaborators. We are seeking ideas as
to how best to solve the difficult problem of incoroporating tracking
into the L1 trigger at the SLHC to contain the rate to 100 kHz. We are
looking for methods for generating tracking trigger primitives as well
as methods of seeding the tracker in Level-1 from the Level-1
calorimeter or muon trigger information.

We foresee a number of introductory talks but would like to devote much
of the meeting to discussion, including short presentations of any
ideas. Some concepts have been presented in the past but it is too soon
to commit to a single one as all of the proposals have their own
advantages and potential drawbacks. Even if a concept is not worked out
in detail, we would like to understand if there is scope for
implementing a 'simple' solution, since the objective is only to
contain the rate, not to develop a hardware tracking trigger nor
provide any particular level of precision. We would also like to
understand as best we can the information needed to progress to a
feasibility study.

If you would like to make a presentation, please contact one of us.

regards
Geoff Hall (Geoff.Hall@cern.ch)
Wesley Smith (wsmith@hep.wisc.edu)