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