| dc.description.abstract | In light of the recent major upgrades to the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN in the second long shutdown, the intense experimentation of Run 3 will follow in the coming years. At an energy level of approximately 13.6 TeV, higher energy collisions will be achieved than ever before, meaning an increased performance in regards to creating highly concentrated collisions for critical discoveries in fundamental physics. The Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment is expected to observe collisions at a significantly increased rate, and upgraded electronics must be implemented to handle the increased data rate as a result. In order to have confidence in the functionality of these optimized electronics, every hardware component must be validated with clearly defined specifications. The purpose of this paper is to design hardware diagnostics procedures to validate that the upgraded backend electronics boards (X2O) for the CMS muon trigger at the Large Hadron Collider will meet the performance specifications. In essence, this paper can be utilized as a user manual for testing the operating conditions of the hardware components of the X2O and ensuring these conditions are within the required specifications. This user manual will clearly define the diagnostic tools and procedures for each test, along with providing the data for each respective test collected from the X2O board at the Texas A&M CMS electronics lab. Supplying these procedures is crucial for the long-term goal of equipping future research and development of the High-Luminosity LHC project, which will produce more collisions and therefore more data to process. | |
