First Results from the Pixel Luminosity Telescope (PLT)

The Pixel Luminosity Telescope (PLT) is a silicon pixel detector dedicated to luminosity measurement at CMS. After a successful pilot run in 2012, the full PLT system, consisting of 48 pixel sensors mounted in 16 telescopes, eight on each side of CMS, was installed during LS1. The PLT provides luminosity measurements by using the ``fast-or'' capability of the pixel readout chips to find events where a hit is registered in all three sensors in a telescope, corresponding to a track from the interaction point. In addition, the full pixel data can be read out at a lower rate, allowing for measurements of efficiency, online monitoring of the data quality, and online analyses such as beamspot reconstruction, as well as enabling alternative techniques of luminosity measurement such as pixel cluster counting.