Performance of the missing transverse momentum triggers for the ATLAS detector during Run-2 data taking



Aad, G, Abbott, B, Abbott, DC, Abud, A Abed, Abeling, K, Abhayasinghe, DK, Abidi, SH, AbouZeid, OS, Abraham, NL, Abramowicz, H
et al (show 2930 more authors) (2020) Performance of the missing transverse momentum triggers for the ATLAS detector during Run-2 data taking JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS, 2020 (8). 80-. ISSN 1126-6708, 1029-8479

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Abstract

The factor of four increase in the LHC luminosity, from 0.5 × 1034 cm−2s−1 to 2.0 × 1034cm−2s−1, and the corresponding increase in pile-up collisions during the 2015–2018 data-taking period, presented a challenge for the ATLAS trigger, particularly for those algorithms that select events with missing transverse momentum. The output data rate at fixed threshold typically increases exponentially with the number of pile-up collisions, so the legacy algorithms from previous LHC data-taking periods had to be tuned and new approaches developed to maintain the high trigger efficiency achieved in earlier operations. A study of the trigger performance and comparisons with simulations show that these changes resulted in event selection efficiencies of > 98% for this period, meeting and in some cases exceeding the performance of similar triggers in earlier run periods, while at the same time keeping the necessary bandwidth within acceptable limits. [Figure not available: see fulltext.]

Item Type: Article
Additional Information: 53 pages in total, author list starting page 37, 14 figures, 3 tables, submitted to JHEP. All figures including auxiliary figures are available at https://atlas.web.cern.ch/Atlas/GROUPS/PHYSICS/PAPERS/TRIG-2019-01/
Uncontrolled Keywords: Hadron-Hadron scattering (experiments)
Depositing User: Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited: 08 Sep 2020 07:58
Last Modified: 16 Jun 2026 14:08
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP08(2020)080
Open Access URL: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2FJHEP08...
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URI: https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3100254
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