BTeV Level 1 Vertex Trigger

BTeV is a $B$-physics experiment that expects to begin collecting data at the C0 interaction region of the Fermilab Tevatron in the year 2006. Its primary goal is to achieve unprecedented levels of sensitivity in the study of CP violation, mixing, and rare decays in $b$ and $c$ quark systems. In order to realize this, it will employ a state-of-the-art first-level vertex trigger (Level 1) that will look at every beam crossing to identify detached secondary vertices that provide evidence for heavy quark decays. This talk will briefly describe the BTeV detector and trigger, focus on the software and hardware aspects of the Level 1 vertex trigger, and describe work currently being done in these areas

A Note on variational solutions to SPDE perturbed by Gaussian noise in a general class

This note deals with existence and uniqueness of (variational) solutions to the following type of stochastic partial differential equations on a Hilbert space H dX(t) = A(t,X(t))dt + B(t,X(t))dW(t) + h(t) dG(t) where A and B are random nonlinear operators satisfying monotonicity conditions and G is an infinite dimensional Gaussian process adapted to the same filtration as the cylindrical Wiener pocess W(t), t >= 0