2017 Meeting of the APS Division of Particles and Fields (DPF 2017)

The NOvA Data Driven Trigger

31 Jul 2017, 18:37

1m

Reception Area (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)

Poster Computing, Analysis Tools and Data Handling Poster Session and Reception

Speaker

Matthew Judah (Colorado State University)

Description

The NOvA experiment is a long-baseline neutrino experiment utilizing an intense off-axis neutrino beam and two segmented liquid-scintillator-based detectors, a 300t near detector and a 14kt far detector located 810 km from the beam source. The NOvA experiment employs a data-driven trigger system to fully exploit the detectors during non-beam operation. We will present an overview of the NOvA trigger design and implementation, as well as data-driven trigger algorithms currently being used for calibration and a non-beam physics program.