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As the search for more and more rare processes accelerates, the need for more and more effective event triggers also accelerates. In the earliest experiments, a simple coincidence often sufficed not only as the event trigger, but as the complete record of an event of interest. In today’s experiments, not only has the fast trigger become more sophisticated, but one or more additional level of trigger processing precedes writing event data to magnetic tape for later analysis. Future search experiments will certainly require further expansion in the number of trigger levels required to filter those rare events of particular interest.
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Proceedings, Topical Conference on the Application of Microprocessors to High-Energy Physics Experiments, CERN, May 4-6, 1981; CERN 81-07.
FASTBUS Modular High Speed Data Acquisition System for High Energy Physics and Other Applications, Tentative Specification, U.S. NIM Committee, 1980. A final specification is expected in the summer of 1982.
Cordon Kerns, Fermilab Physics Section, has prototyped such a device.
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Appel, J.A. (1984). Triggering for Charm, Beauty and Truth. In: Bellini, G., Ting, S.C.C. (eds) Search for Charm, Beauty, and Truth at High Energies. Ettore Majorana International Science Series, vol 16. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2659-5_42
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