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Muon reconstruction performance of the ATLAS detector in proton–proton collision data at s=13 TeV

  • The ATLAS collaboration
  • Aix-Marseille Université
  • University of Oklahoma
  • University of Iowa
  • Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences
  • IN2P3/CNRS
  • University of Amsterdam
  • Michigan State University
  • University of California at Santa Cruz
  • University of Sussex
  • Tel Aviv University
  • Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
  • University of Oregon
  • Stockholm University
  • Oskar Klein Centre
  • National Institute for Nuclear Physics
  • Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics
  • King's College London
  • AGH University of Krakow
  • United States Department of Energy
  • Northern Illinois University
  • Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
  • Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
  • University of Liverpool
  • University of Belgrade
  • University of Göttingen
  • Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas
  • University of Granada
  • Boston University
  • Joint Institute for Nuclear Research
  • University of Rome Tor Vergata
  • Lund University
  • P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  • University of Bologna
  • University of Victoria BC
  • Université Grenoble Alpes
  • Universidad Nacional de La Plata
  • CERN
  • Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering
  • National Technical University of Athens
  • University of Salento
  • The University of Chicago
  • Columbia University

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Abstract

This article documents the performance of the ATLAS muon identification and reconstruction using the LHC dataset recorded at s=13 TeV in 2015. Using a large sample of J/ ψ→ μμ and Z→ μμ decays from 3.2 fb- 1 of pp collision data, measurements of the reconstruction efficiency, as well as of the momentum scale and resolution, are presented and compared to Monte Carlo simulations. The reconstruction efficiency is measured to be close to 99% over most of the covered phase space (| η| < 2.5 and 5 < pT< 100 GeV). The isolation efficiency varies between 93 and 100% depending on the selection applied and on the momentum of the muon. Both efficiencies are well reproduced in simulation. In the central region of the detector, the momentum resolution is measured to be 1.7% (2.3%) for muons from J/ ψ→ μμ (Z→ μμ) decays, and the momentum scale is known with an uncertainty of 0.05%. In the region | η| > 2.2 , the pT resolution for muons from Z→ μμ decays is 2.9% while the precision of the momentum scale for low-pT muons from J/ ψ→ μμ decays is about 0.2%.

Original languageEnglish
Article number292
JournalEuropean Physical Journal C
Volume76
Issue number5
DOIs
StatePublished - May 23 2016

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