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The LHCb trigger and its performance in 2011
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This paper presents the design of the LHCb trigger and its performance on data taken at the LHC in 2011. A principal goal of LHCb is to perform flavour physics measurements, and the trigger is designed to distinguish charm and beauty decays from the light quark background. Using a combination of lepton identification and measurements of the particles' transverse momenta the trigger selects particles originating from charm and beauty hadrons, which typically fly a finite distance before decaying. The trigger reduces the roughly 11 MHz of bunch-bunch crossings that contain at least one inelastic pp interaction to 3 kHz. This reduction takes place in two stages; the first stage is implemented in hardware and the second stage is a software application that runs on a large computer farm. A data-driven method is used to evaluate the performance of the trigger on several charm and beauty decay modes.
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LHCb Collaboration and RUIZ, Hugo (Ruiz Pérez). The LHCb trigger and its performance in 2011. Journal of Instrumentation. 2013. Vol. 8, num. 04022. ISSN 1748-0221. [consulted: 10 of June of 2026]. Available at: https://hdl.handle.net/2445/196021