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Electron and photon energy calibration with the ATLAS detector using LHC Run 2 data

  • The ATLAS collaboration
  • Aix-Marseille Université
  • University of Oklahoma
  • University of Göttingen
  • TU Dortmund University
  • United States Department of Energy
  • Mohammed V University in Rabat
  • Tel Aviv University
  • Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
  • New York University
  • National Institute for Nuclear Physics
  • Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics
  • King's College London
  • Université Savoie Mont Blanc
  • AGH University of Krakow
  • Brandeis University
  • University of Manchester
  • Northern Illinois University
  • Istanbul University
  • Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
  • University of California at Santa Cruz
  • CERN
  • Institute for High Energy Physics
  • University of Pavia
  • Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
  • Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iaşi
  • The University of Chicago
  • McGill University
  • Royal Holloway University of London
  • University of Science and Technology of China
  • University of Rome Tor Vergata
  • University of Valencia
  • University of Hassan II Casablanca
  • Weizmann Institute of Science
  • Lund University
  • Waseda University
  • University of Bonn
  • Columbia University
  • University of Victoria BC
  • Université Grenoble Alpes

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Abstract

This paper presents the electron and photon energy calibration obtained with the ATLAS detector using 140 fb−1 of LHC proton-proton collision data recorded at √s = 13 TeV between 2015 and 2018. Methods for the measurement of electron and photon energies are outlined, along with the current knowledge of the passive material in front of the ATLAS electromagnetic calorimeter. The energy calibration steps are discussed in detail, with emphasis on the improvements introduced in this paper. The absolute energy scale is set using a large sample of Z-boson decays into electron-positron pairs, and its residual dependence on the electron energy is used for the first time to further constrain systematic uncertainties. The achieved calibration uncertainties are typically 0.05% for electrons from resonant Z-boson decays, 0.4% at ET ∼ 10 GeV, and 0.3% at ET ∼ 1 TeV; for photons at ET ∼ 60 GeV, they are 0.2% on average. This is more than twice as precise as the previous calibration. The new energy calibration is validated using J/ → ee and radiative Z-boson decays.

Original languageEnglish
Article numberP02009
JournalJournal of Instrumentation
Volume19
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - Feb 1 2024

Keywords

  • Calorimeter methods; Pattern recognition
  • calibration
  • cluster finding
  • fitting methods; Performance of High Energy Physics Detectors

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