L1 Trigger Offline Software

Goal of this page

This chapter documents the L1 trigger offline software. The hardware is documented in the Trigger TDR and via some subsystem wiki pages at L1Trigger.

Contacts

Jim Brooke - jim.brooke@NOSPAMPLEASEcernNOSPAMPLEASE.ch

Werner Sun - wsun@NOSPAMPLEASEmailNOSPAMPLEASE.lns.cornell.edu

Please use the L1 Emulator hypernews. The Trigger Monitoring hypernews may also be of interest.

Introduction

The L1 Trigger offline software includes packages that provide bit-level emulation of the trigger electronics, along with tools for interpreting, monitoring and analysing L1 data.

L1 Emulator

• ECAL Trigger Primitive Generator
• HCAL Trigger Primitive Generator
• Region Calorimeter Trigger
• Global Calorimeter Trigger
• DT Trigger Primitive Generator
• DT Track Finder
• CSC Trigger Primitive Generator
• CSC Track Finder
• RPC Trigger
• Global Trigger

L1 Offline Tools

• L1 Extra - physical representation of the L1 output, and interface to the HLT
• L1 Emulator Configuration - documentation on how the emulator is configured in offline/online scenarios
• L1 Analyzer - for analysing L1 output objects
• L1TextToDigi - modules for converting hardware output files to digis, and vice versa
• L1 hardware validation and monitoring using the emulator

L1 Monitoring Tools

• GCT Monitoring package

Review status

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