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Trigger and Data Acquisition at the LHC Part I: Introduction and ...

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Inelastic Cross­Section is<br />

~70mb<br />

'Interesting' Physics on <strong>the</strong><br />

order of a few nb<br />

'Discovery' Physics on <strong>the</strong><br />

order of pb or even fb<br />

Cannot (<strong>and</strong> probably do not)<br />

want to record every beam<br />

crossing<br />

Need to make choices<br />

defining 'interesting'<br />

99.99%+ of <strong>the</strong>se choices are<br />

made very quickly (within<br />

microseconds) <strong>and</strong>

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