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ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment) is one of the four main LHC experiments and is optimised to study heavy ion collisions.
The ALICE detectors and readout system have undergone a major upgrade to increase the data acquisition rates to the required level.
The integrated luminosity is expected to be increased by a factor of 100 by increasing the readout rate to 50 kHz for Pb-Pb and to 1 MHz for pp collisions.
A novel trigger and timing distribution system is implemented based on Passive Optical Network and GigaBit Transceiver technology.
To assure backward compatibility, a triggered mode based on RD12 TTC technology is kept and re-implemented under the new Central Trigger System. A new universal ALICE Trigger Board based on the Xilinx Kintex Ultrascale FPGA has been designed that can function as a Central Trigger Processor (CTP), Local Trigger Unit (LTU), and monitoring interface.
