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The ATLAS b-Jet Trigger

High Energy Physics - Experiment 2011-11-18 v1

Abstract

The online event selection is crucial to reject most of the events containing uninteresting background collisions while preserving as much as possible the interesting physical signals. The b-jet selection is part of the trigger strategy of the ATLAS experiment and a set of dedicated triggers was contributing to the event selection for the 2011 running. The b-jets acceptance is increased and the background reduced by lowering jet transverse energy thresholds at the first trigger level and applying b-tagging techniques at the subsequent levels. Different physics channels, especially topologies containing more than one b-jet where higher rejection factors are achieved, benefit from using the b-jet trigger. An overview of the b-jet trigger menu and performance on data is presented.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1111.4190,
  title  = {The ATLAS b-Jet Trigger},
  author = {Per Hansson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1111.4190},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

4 pages, 6 figures, conference proceedings for PIC2011

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