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

  • The ATLAS collaboration
  • Departamento de Física
  • Universidad Nacional de Colombia
  • National University of Science and Technology POLITEHNICA Bucharest
  • iThemba Labs
  • Department of Physics
  • University of South Africa
  • Cadi Ayyad University
  • Dep Física and CEFITEC of Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia
  • NOVA University Lisbon
  • Instituto de Alta Investigación
  • Universidad de Tarapacá
  • CERN
  • Aix-Marseille Université
  • University of Oklahoma
  • University of Massachusetts
  • 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
  • King's College London
  • 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
  • IFT-UAM/CSIC
  • Joint Institute for Nuclear Research
  • McGill University
  • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
  • 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 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.]

Original languageEnglish
Article number80
JournalJournal of High Energy Physics
Volume2020
Issue number8
DOIs
StatePublished - Aug 1 2020

Keywords

  • Hadron-Hadron scattering (experiments)

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