Reconstruction of hadronic decay products of tau leptons with the ATLAS experiment

Allbrooke, Benedict, Asquith, Lily, Cerri, Alessandro, Chavez Barajas, Carlos, De Santo, Antonella, Potter, Tina, Salvatore, Fabrizio, Santoyo Castillo, Itzebelt, Suruliz, Kerim, Sutton, Mark, Vivarelli, Iacopo and The ATLAS Collaboration, et al (2016) Reconstruction of hadronic decay products of tau leptons with the ATLAS experiment. European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields, 76 (295). ISSN 1434-6044

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Abstract

This paper presents a new method of reconstructing the individual charged and neutral hadrons in tau decays with the ATLAS detector. The reconstructed hadrons are used to classify the decay mode and to calculate the visible four-momentum of reconstructed tau candidates, significantly improving the resolution with respect to the calibration in the existing tau reconstruction. The performance of the reconstruction algorithm is optimised and evaluated using simulation and validated using samples of Z→ττ Z→ττ and Z(→μμ) Z(→μμ) +jets events selected from proton–proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy s √ =8TeV s=8TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 5 fb −1 fb−1 .

Item Type: Article
Schools and Departments: School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences > Physics and Astronomy
Subjects: Q Science > QC Physics
Depositing User: Richard Chambers
Date Deposited: 21 Jun 2016 10:23
Last Modified: 17 Jun 2017 00:45
URI: http://srodev.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/61636

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