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Standalone vertex finding in the ATLAS muon spectrometer

Instrumentation and Detectors 2014-08-21 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment

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 bb final states, and pp collision data at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV collected with the ATLAS detector at the LHC during 2011.

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@article{arxiv.1311.7070,
  title  = {Standalone vertex finding in the ATLAS muon spectrometer},
  author = {The ATLAS Collaboration},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1311.7070},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

22 pages plus author list (43 pages total), 21 figures, 1 table, submitted to JINST. All figures including auxiliary figures are available at http://atlas.web.cern.ch/Atlas/GROUPS/PHYSICS/PAPERS/PERF-2013-01/