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Characterisation and mitigation of beam-induced backgrounds observed in the ATLAS detector during the 2011 proton-proton run
| dc.contributor.author | ATLAS collaboration (2914 authors) | |
| dc.contributor.author | Aguilar-Saavedra, Juan Antonio | |
| dc.contributor.author | Amor Dos Santos, Susana Patricia | |
| dc.contributor.author | Anjos, Nuno | |
| dc.contributor.author | Cantrill, Robert | |
| dc.contributor.author | Carvalho, João | |
| dc.contributor.author | Castro, Nuno Filipe | |
| dc.contributor.author | Conde Muiño, Patricia | |
| dc.contributor.author | Da Cunha Sargedas De Sousa, Mario Jose | |
| dc.contributor.author | Do Valle Wemans, André | |
| dc.contributor.author | Fiolhais, Miguel | |
| dc.contributor.author | Galhardo, Bruno | |
| dc.contributor.author | Gomes, Agostinho | |
| dc.contributor.author | Gonçalo, Ricardo | |
| dc.contributor.author | Jorge, Pedro | |
| dc.contributor.author | Lopes, Lourenco | |
| dc.contributor.author | Machado Miguens, Joana | |
| dc.contributor.author | Maio, Amélia | |
| dc.contributor.author | Maneira, José | |
| dc.contributor.author | Oliveira, Miguel Alfonso | |
| dc.contributor.author | Onofre, António | |
| dc.contributor.author | Palma, Alberto | |
| dc.contributor.author | Pina, João Antonio | |
| dc.contributor.author | Pinto, Belmiro | |
| dc.contributor.author | Santos, Helena | |
| dc.contributor.author | Saraiva, João | |
| dc.contributor.author | Silva, José | |
| dc.contributor.author | Veloso, Filipe | |
| dc.contributor.author | Wolters, Helmut | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-02-03T22:34:31Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2019-02-03T22:34:31Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2013-07-17 | |
| dc.date.updated | 2019-02-03T22:34:31Z | |
| dc.description.abstract | This paper presents a summary of beam-induced backgrounds observed in the ATLAS detector and discusses methods to tag and remove background contaminated events in data. Trigger-rate based monitoring of beam-related backgrounds is presented. The correlations of backgrounds with machine conditions, such as residual pressure in the beam-pipe, are discussed. Results from dedicated beam-background simulations are shown, and their qualitative agreement with data is evaluated. Data taken during the passage of unpaired, i.e. non-colliding, proton bunches is used to obtain background-enriched data samples. These are used to identify characteristic features of beam-induced backgrounds, which then are exploited to develop dedicated background tagging tools. These tools, based on observables in the Pixel detector, the muon spectrometer and the calorimeters, are described in detail and their efficiencies are evaluated. Finally an example of an application of these techniques to a monojet analysis is given, which demonstrates the importance of such event cleaning techniques for some new physics searches. | |
| dc.description.version | Peer Reviewed | |
| dc.identifier | JINST 8 (2013) P07004; DOI 10.1088/1748-0221/8/07/P07004 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/8/07/P07004 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10400.26/26394 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | |
| dc.title | Characterisation and mitigation of beam-induced backgrounds observed in the ATLAS detector during the 2011 proton-proton run | |
| dc.type | journal article | |
| dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
| rcaap.rights | openAccess | pt |
| rcaap.type | article |