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Tracking in dense environments and its inefficiency measurement using pixel $dE/dx$

High Energy Physics - Experiment 2017-01-04 v1

Abstract

We present a measurement of the charged particle reconstruction inefficiency inside of jet cores, using data collected by the ATLAS experiment in 2015 of pppp collisions produced at the LHC, at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV. The determination of this inefficiency is important for jet energy scale and mass calibration, as well as multiple other performance studies and analyses. A data driven method is used, where the fraction of lost particle tracks is determined from energy deposition dE/dxdE/dx in the pixel detector. The fraction of lost tracks is found to be less than 5%, which is an improvement since the previous study, and agrees well within systematic uncertainties with a Monte Carlo simulation.

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@article{arxiv.1610.08709,
  title  = {Tracking in dense environments and its inefficiency measurement using pixel $dE/dx$},
  author = {Jason D. Mansour},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1610.08709},
  year   = {2017}
}

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Presented at PIXEL 2016 and prepared for submission to JINST

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