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Configuration and performance of the ATLAS b-jet triggers in Run 2

  • ATLAS Collaboration
  • Aix-Marseille Université
  • University of Oklahoma
  • University of Massachusetts
  • CERN
  • University of Göttingen
  • Royal Holloway University of London
  • United States Department of Energy
  • 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 Savoie Mont Blanc
  • AGH University of Krakow
  • University of Toronto
  • Northern Illinois University
  • Bogazici University
  • Istanbul 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 Victoria BC
  • IThemba Labs
  • University of the Philippines
  • Department of Physics
  • University of South Africa
  • Cadi Ayyad University
  • Mohammed VI Polytechnic University
  • New York University Abu Dhabi
  • United Arab Emirates University
  • University of Sharjah
  • Dep Física and CEFITEC of Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia
  • NOVA University Lisbon
  • Universidad de La Serena

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Abstract

Several improvements to the ATLAS triggers used to identify jets containing b-hadrons (b-jets) were implemented for data-taking during Run 2 of the Large Hadron Collider from 2016 to 2018. These changes include reconfiguring the b-jet trigger software to improve primary-vertex finding and allow more stable running in conditions with high pile-up, and the implementation of the functionality needed to run sophisticated taggers used by the offline reconstruction in an online environment. These improvements yielded an order of magnitude better light-flavour jet rejection for the same b-jet identification efficiency compared to the performance in Run 1 (2011–2012). The efficiency to identify b-jets in the trigger, and the conditional efficiency for b-jets that satisfy offline b-tagging requirements to pass the trigger are also measured. Correction factors are derived to calibrate the b-tagging efficiency in simulation to match that observed in data. The associated systematic uncertainties are substantially smaller than in previous measurements. In addition, b-jet triggers were operated for the first time during heavy-ion data-taking, using dedicated triggers that were developed to identify semileptonic b-hadron decays by selecting events with geometrically overlapping muons and jets.

Original languageEnglish
Article number1087
JournalEuropean Physical Journal C
Volume81
Issue number12
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 2021

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