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Performance of the ATLAS muon triggers in Run 2

  • The ATLAS collaboration
  • Aix-Marseille Université
  • University of Oklahoma
  • University of Massachusetts
  • CERN
  • University of Göttingen
  • Royal Holloway University of London
  • University of Toronto
  • University of Copenhagen
  • University of Sussex
  • Tel Aviv University
  • Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
  • Argonne National Laboratory
  • National Institute for Nuclear Physics
  • Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics
  • Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
  • Université Grenoble Alpes
  • AGH University of Krakow
  • Northern Illinois University
  • Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
  • Bogazici University
  • University of Geneva
  • Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
  • University of California at Santa Cruz
  • Université Paris-Saclay
  • Université Clermont Auvergne
  • Radboud University Nijmegen
  • Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iaşi
  • Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas
  • University of Granada
  • NOVA University Lisbon
  • University of Lisbon
  • Joint Institute for Nuclear Research
  • McGill University
  • University of California at Berkeley
  • University of Rome Tor Vergata
  • Kyoto University
  • Lund University
  • P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  • University of Bologna
  • University of Victoria BC

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Abstract

The performance of the ATLAS muon trigger system is evaluated with proton-proton (pp) and heavy-ion (HI) collision data collected in Run 2 during 2015-2018 at the Large Hadron Collider. It is primarily evaluated using events containing a pair of muons from the decay of Z bosons to cover the intermediate momentum range between 26 GeV and 100 GeV. Overall, the efficiency of the single-muon triggers is about 68% in the barrel region and 85% in the endcap region. The pT range for efficiency determination is extended by using muons from decays of Jψ mesons, W bosons, and top quarks. The performance in HI collision data is measured and shows good agreement with the results obtained in pp collisions. The muon trigger shows uniform and stable performance in good agreement with the prediction of a detailed simulation. Dedicated multi-muon triggers with kinematic selections provide the backbone to beauty, quarkonia, and low-mass physics studies. The design, evolution and performance of these triggers are discussed in detail.

Original languageEnglish
Article numberP09015
JournalJournal of Instrumentation
Volume15
Issue number9
DOIs
StatePublished - Sep 2020

Keywords

  • Data acquisition concepts
  • Data processing methods
  • Online farms and online filtering
  • Trigger concepts and systems (hardware and software)

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