Introduction

Overview

Teaching: 30 min
Exercises: 0 min

Questions

Objectives

• Overview of CMS trigger system

We will learn the overview of CMS trigger system, both L1 and HLT, with slides.

Key Points

• You will be familiar with basic concepts and terminology related to triggering, so that you can apply them in your work (e.g. turn-on, prescale, matching…)

• You will be able to describe the main features of the CMS trigger system

• You will have an overview of the CMS trigger menu, allowing you to identify suitable triggers for your physics analysis

• You will be familiar with the analysis tools needed to access trigger-related information in CMS datasets

• You will know how to perform trigger efficiency measurements