Performance of electron and photon triggers in ATLAS during LHC Run 2

Collaboration, ATLAS (2020) Performance of electron and photon triggers in ATLAS during LHC Run 2 Eur. Phys. J. C, 80 (1). p. 47. ISSN 1434-6044, 1434-6052

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Abstract

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$\times$10$^{34}$cm$^{-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.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	55 pages in total, author list starting page 39, 26 figures, 10 tables, submitted to EPJC. All figures including auxiliary figures are available at https://atlas.web.cern.ch/Atlas/GROUPS/PHYSICS/PAPERS/TRIG-2018-05
Uncontrolled Keywords:	hep-ex, hep-ex
Depositing User:	Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited:	10 Feb 2020 09:51
Last Modified:	23 May 2026 01:48
DOI:	10.1140/epjc/s10052-019-7500-2
Open Access URL:	https://epjc.epj.org/articles/epjc/abs/2020/01/100...
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URI:	https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3074341
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