Charged Particle Tracking with Machine Learning on FPGAs

Abstract: The determination of charged particle trajectories (tracking) in collisions at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is one of the most important aspects for event reconstruction at hadron colliders. This is especially true in the high conditions expected during the future high-luminosity phase of the LHC (HL-LHC) where the number of interactions per beam crossing will increase by a factor of five. Deep learning algorithms have been successfully applied to this task for offline applications. However, their study in hardware-based trigger applications has been limited . In this paper, we study different algorithms for two different steps of tracking and show that such algorithms can be run on field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs).