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TY - JOUR
T1 - Performance of electron and photon triggers in ATLAS during LHC Run 2
AU - Collaboration, ATLAS
AU - Barton, A.E.
AU - Bertram, I.A.
AU - Borissov, G.
AU - Bouhova-Thacker, E.V.
AU - Fox, H.
AU - Henderson, R.C.W.
AU - Jones, R.W.L.
AU - Kartvelishvili, V.
AU - Long, R.E.
AU - Love, P.A.
AU - Muenstermann, D.
AU - Parker, A.J.
AU - Smizanska, M.
AU - Tee, A.S.
AU - Walder, J.
AU - Wharton, A.M.
AU - Whitmore, B.W.
AU - Sanderswood, Izaac
AU - Yexley, Melissa
PY - 2020/1/22
Y1 - 2020/1/22
N2 - Electron and photon triggers covering transverse energies from 5 GeV to several TeV are essential for the ATLAS experiment to record signals for a wide variety of physics: from Standard Model processes to searches for new phenomena in both proton–proton and heavy-ion collisions. To cope with a fourfold increase of peak LHC luminosity from 2015 to 2018 (Run 2), to 2.1×1034cm−2 s−1 , and a similar increase in the number of interactions per beam-crossing to about 60, trigger algorithms and selections were optimised to control the rates while retaining a high efficiency for physics analyses. For proton–proton collisions, the single-electron trigger efficiency relative to a single-electron offline selection is at least 75% for an offline electron of 31 GeV , and rises to 96% at 60 GeV ; the trigger efficiency of a 25 GeV leg of the primary diphoton trigger relative to a tight offline photon selection is more than 96% for an offline photon of 30 GeV . For heavy-ion collisions, the primary electron and photon trigger efficiencies relative to the corresponding standard offline selections are at least 84% and 95%, respectively, at 5 GeV above the corresponding trigger threshold.
AB - Electron and photon triggers covering transverse energies from 5 GeV to several TeV are essential for the ATLAS experiment to record signals for a wide variety of physics: from Standard Model processes to searches for new phenomena in both proton–proton and heavy-ion collisions. To cope with a fourfold increase of peak LHC luminosity from 2015 to 2018 (Run 2), to 2.1×1034cm−2 s−1 , and a similar increase in the number of interactions per beam-crossing to about 60, trigger algorithms and selections were optimised to control the rates while retaining a high efficiency for physics analyses. For proton–proton collisions, the single-electron trigger efficiency relative to a single-electron offline selection is at least 75% for an offline electron of 31 GeV , and rises to 96% at 60 GeV ; the trigger efficiency of a 25 GeV leg of the primary diphoton trigger relative to a tight offline photon selection is more than 96% for an offline photon of 30 GeV . For heavy-ion collisions, the primary electron and photon trigger efficiencies relative to the corresponding standard offline selections are at least 84% and 95%, respectively, at 5 GeV above the corresponding trigger threshold.
U2 - 10.1140/epjc/s10052-019-7500-2
DO - 10.1140/epjc/s10052-019-7500-2
M3 - Journal article
VL - 80
JO - European Physical Journal D
JF - European Physical Journal D
SN - 1434-6060
IS - 1
M1 - 47
ER -