Task leads: Wainer Vandelli (CERN), Thorsten Wenger (CERN)

To fully exploit the physics potential of the novel trigger approaches developed in WP2, the ATLAS data acquisition infrastructure needs to provide all the required event information reliably and within minimal
latency. This so-called Readout, is a challenging data-acquisition subsystem, responsible for interfacing detector-specific optical links to a commercial network. The goal of this task is to optimize the readout
performance and to address bottlenecks in the system. Extending the information content of the data provided by the detector may be required to maximize the physics performance of the Level-0 selection.