February 13, 2026 Master Thesis Open Access

Baptist, Frank Michael

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{
  "abstract": "<p>At the Belle II experiment, collisions occur at a rate higher than 200 MHz. Due to bandwidth and storage limitations, storing this amount of data for offline analysis is not feasible. That is why the experiment relies on a two-level trigger system as a preselection before passing the events to subsequent software-based processing and analysis. The first level, known as the Level 1 Trigger (L1 Trigger), is a hardware-based system that makes decisions within a few microseconds. The buffered data from the detector can only be stored for a limited time, which imposes strict latency requirements on the L1 Trigger.</p>\n\n<p>One approach to enhance the L1 Trigger is the development of the GNN-ETM. It utilizes dynamic graph building based on GravNet and can predict a varying number of clusters per event using Object Condensation. The GNN-ETM is implemented on field-programmable gate array (FPGA) hardware, which allows for low-latency inference and is suitable for deployment on the L1 Trigger. The current parasitic implementation of the GNN-ETM in the L1 Trigger has shown promising results in terms of precision and latency. Nevertheless, further improvements, especially in terms of latency, are necessary to develop a potential replacement for the clustering algorithm currently deployed on the ECL L1 Trigger.</p>\n\n<p>In this thesis, I present the optimization of the GNN-ETM for reduced latency, including modifications to the model architecture and training procedure.</p>", 
  "author": [
    {
      "family": "Baptist, Frank Michael"
    }
  ], 
  "id": "22417", 
  "issued": {
    "date-parts": [
      [
        2026, 
        2, 
        13
      ]
    ]
  }, 
  "language": "eng", 
  "title": "Training and Optimization of a Graph Neural Network for Deployment on FPGA Hardware in the Belle II Level 1 Trigger", 
  "type": "thesis"
}