Performance of the ATLAS track reconstruction algorithms in dense environments in LHC Run 2
With the increase in energy of the Large Hadron Collider to a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV for Run 2, events with dense environments, such as in the cores of high-energy jets, became a focus for new physics searches as well as measurements of the Standard Model. These environments are characterized by charged-particle separations of the order of the tracking detectors sensor granularity. Basic track quantities are compared between 3.2 fb-1 of data collected by the ATLAS experiment and simulation of proton–proton collisions producing high-transverse-momentum jets at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV. The impact of charged-particle separations and multiplicities on the track reconstruction performance is discussed. The track reconstruction efficiency in the cores of jets with transverse momenta between 200 and 1600 GeV is quantified using a novel, data-driven, method. The method uses the energy loss, dE/dx, to identify pixel clusters originating from two charged particles. Of the charged particles creating these clusters, the measured fraction that fail to be reconstructed is 0.061±0.006 (stat.)±0.014 (syst.) and 0.093±0.017 (stat.)±0.021 (syst.) for jet transverse momenta of 200–400 GeV and 1400–1600 GeV, respectively.
- Research Organization:
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA (United States); Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF); SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States); Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
- Contributing Organization:
- ATLAS Collaboration
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-05CH11231; SC0007881; AC02-76SF00515; SC0012704
- OSTI ID:
- 1476546
- Alternate ID(s):
- OSTI ID: 1437593; OSTI ID: 1499435; OSTI ID: 1772572
- Report Number(s):
- BNL-209250-2018-JACI; ark:/13030/qt37n1b761
- Journal Information:
- European Physical Journal. C, Particles and Fields, Vol. 77, Issue 10; Related Information: © 2017, CERN for the benefit of the ATLAS Collaboration.; ISSN 1434-6044
- Publisher:
- SpringerCopyright Statement
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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