Standalone vertex finding in the ATLAS muon spectrometer
JOURNAL OF INSTRUMENTATION, vol.9, 2014 (SCI-Expanded, Scopus)
- Publication Type: Article / Article
- Volume: 9
- Publication Date: 2014
- Doi Number: 10.1088/1748-0221/9/02/p02001
- Journal Name: JOURNAL OF INSTRUMENTATION
- Journal Indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
- Keywords: Muon spectrometers, Performance of High Energy Physics Detectors
- Middle East Technical University Affiliated: Yes
Abstract
A dedicated reconstruction algorithm to find decay vertices in the ATLAS muon spectrometer is presented. The algorithm searches the region just upstream of or inside the muon spectrometer volume for multi-particle vertices that originate from the decay of particles with long decay paths. The performance of the algorithm is evaluated using both a sample of simulated Higgs boson events, in which the Higgs boson decays to long-lived neutral particles that in turn decay to b (b) over bar final states, and pp collision data at root s = 7 TeV collected with the ATLAS detector at the LHC during 2011.