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Oxana Smirnova

Oxana Smirnova

Senior Lecturer, Deputy Head of division

Oxana Smirnova

A measurement of material in the ATLAS tracker using secondary hadronic interactions in 7TeV pp collisions

Author

  • M Aaboud
  • G Aad
  • B. Abbott
  • J Abdallah
  • O Abdinov
  • B Abeloos
  • Torsten Åkesson
  • Simona Bocchetta
  • LENE BRYNGEMARK
  • Caterina Doglioni
  • Anders Floderus
  • Vincent Hedberg
  • Göran Jarlskog
  • Else Lytken
  • Ulf Mjörnmark
  • Oxana Smirnova
  • Oleksandr Viazlo

Summary, in English

Knowledge of the material in the ATLAS inner tracking detector is crucial in understanding the reconstruction of charged-particle tracks, the performance of algorithms that identify jets containing b-hadrons and is also essential to reduce background in searches for exotic particles that can decay within the inner detector volume. Interactions of primary hadrons produced in pp collisions with the material in the inner detector are used to map the location and amount of this material. The hadronic interactions of primary particles may result in secondary vertices, which in this analysis are reconstructed by an inclusive vertex-finding algorithm. Data were collected using minimum-bias triggers by the ATLAS detector operating at the LHC during 2010 at centre-of-mass energy √s = 7TeV, and correspond to an integrated luminosity of 19nb-1. Kinematic properties of these secondary vertices are used to study the validity of the modelling of hadronic interactions in simulation. Secondary-vertex yields are compared between data and simulation over a volume of about 0.7 m3 around the interaction point, and agreement is found within overall uncertainties. © CERN 2016 for the benefit of the ATLAS collaboration, published under the terms of the Creative CommonsAttribution 3.0 License by IOP Publishing Ltd and Sissa Medialab srl.

Department/s

  • Particle and nuclear physics
  • eSSENCE: The e-Science Collaboration

Publishing year

2016

Language

English

Publication/Series

Journal of Instrumentation

Volume

11

Issue

11

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

IOP Publishing

Topic

  • Subatomic Physics

Keywords

  • Detector modelling and simulations I (interaction of radiation with matter, interaction of photons with matter, interaction of hadrons with matter, etc)
  • Performance of high energy physics detectors
  • Elementary particles
  • Hadrons
  • High energy physics
  • Centre-of-mass energies
  • Hadronic interactions
  • High energy physics detector
  • Integrated luminosity
  • Kinematic properties
  • Modelling and simulations
  • Performance of algorithm
  • Secondary vertices
  • Tellurium compounds

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1748-0221