Neural Network-Based Primary Vertex Reconstruction with FPGAs for the Upgrade of the CMS Level-1 Trigger System

Abstract The CMS experiment will be upgraded to maintain physics sensitivity and exploit the improved performance of the High Luminosity LHC. Part of this upgrade will see the first level (Level-1) trigger use charged particle tracks reconstructed within the full outer silicon tracker volume as an i...

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Published in:Journal of physics. Conference series 2023-02, Vol.2438 (1), p.12106
Main Authors: Brown, C., Bundock, A., Komm, M., Loncar, V., Pierini, M., Radburn-Smith, B., Shtipliyski, A., Summers, S., Dancu, J.-S., Tapper, A.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Algorithms
Charged particles
Field programmable gate arrays
Luminosity
Neural networks
Optimization
Particle tracking
Physics
Reconstruction
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Summary:Abstract The CMS experiment will be upgraded to maintain physics sensitivity and exploit the improved performance of the High Luminosity LHC. Part of this upgrade will see the first level (Level-1) trigger use charged particle tracks reconstructed within the full outer silicon tracker volume as an input for the first time and new algorithms are being designed to make use of these tracks. One such algorithm is primary vertex finding which is used to identify the hard scatter in an event and separate the primary interaction from additional simultaneous interactions. This work presents a novel approach to regress the primary vertex position and to reject tracks from additional soft interactions, which uses an end-to-end neural network. This neural network possesses simultaneous knowledge of all stages in the reconstruction chain, which allows for end-to-end optimisation. The improved performance of this network versus a baseline approach in the primary vertex regression and track-to-vertex classification is shown. A quantised and pruned version of the neural network is deployed on an FPGA to match the stringent timing and computing requirements of the Level-1 Trigger.
ISSN:1742-6588
1742-6596
DOI:10.1088/1742-6596/2438/1/012106