1. A novel approach to Hough Transform for implementation in fast triggers.
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Pozzobon, Nicola, Montecassiano, Fabio, and Zotto, Pierluigi
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HOUGH transforms , *POSITION sensitive particle detectors , *PARTICLES (Nuclear physics) , *PROGRAMMABLE logic devices , *FIELD programmable gate arrays , *TELESCOPES - Abstract
Telescopes of position sensitive detectors are common layouts in charged particles tracking, and programmable logic devices, such as FPGAs, represent a viable choice for the real-time reconstruction of track segments in such detector arrays. A compact implementation of the Hough Transform for fast triggers in High Energy Physics, exploiting a parameter reduction method, is proposed, targeting the reduction of the needed storage or computing resources in current, or next future, state-of-the-art FPGA devices, while retaining high resolution over a wide range of track parameters. The proposed approach is compared to a Standard Hough Transform with particular emphasis on their application to muon detectors. In both cases, an original readout implementation is modeled. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2016
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