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Muon reconstruction and identification efficiency in ATLAS using the full Run 2 $pp$ collision data set at $\sqrt{s}=13$ TeV

High Energy Physics - Experiment 2021-08-27 v2

Abstract

This article documents the muon reconstruction and identification efficiency obtained by the ATLAS experiment for 139 fb1^{-1} of pppp collision data at s=13\sqrt{s}=13 TeV collected between 2015 and 2018 during Run 2 of the LHC. The increased instantaneous luminosity delivered by the LHC over this period required a reoptimisation of the criteria for the identification of prompt muons. Improved and newly developed algorithms were deployed to preserve high muon identification efficiency with a low misidentification rate and good momentum resolution. The availability of large samples of ZμμZ\to\mu\mu and J/ψμμJ/\psi\to\mu\mu decays, and the minimisation of systematic uncertainties, allows the efficiencies of criteria for muon identification, primary vertex association, and isolation to be measured with an accuracy at the per-mille level in the bulk of the phase space, and up to the percent level in complex kinematic configurations. Excellent performance is achieved over a range of transverse momenta from 3 GeV to several hundred GeV, and across the full muon detector acceptance of η<2.7|\eta|<2.7.

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@article{arxiv.2012.00578,
  title  = {Muon reconstruction and identification efficiency in ATLAS using the full Run 2 $pp$ collision data set at $\sqrt{s}=13$ TeV},
  author = {ATLAS Collaboration},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.00578},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

64 pages in total, author list starting page 42, auxiliary material starting at page 59, 34 figures, 3 tables. All figures including auxiliary figures are available at https://atlas.web.cern.ch/Atlas/GROUPS/PHYSICS/PAPERS/MUON-2018-03/