ATLAS, Collaboration; Beck, Hans Peter; Cervelli, Alberto; Ereditato, Antonio; Haug, Sigve; Kabana, Sonja; Meloni, Federico; Mullier, Geoffrey André Adrien; Pretzl, Klaus-Peter; Stramaglia, Maria Elena; Stucci, Stefania; Weber, Michael (2015). Modelling Z → ττ processes in ATLAS with τ-embeddedZ → μμ data. Journal of instrumentation, 10(09), P09018. Institute of Physics Publishing IOP 10.1088/1748-0221/10/09/P09018
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This paper describes the concept, technical realisation and validation of a largely data-driven method to model events with Z→ττ decays. In Z→μμ events selected from proton-proton collision data recorded at √s=8 TeV with the ATLAS experiment at the LHC in 2012, the Z decay muons are replaced by τ leptons from simulated Zarrowττ decays at the level of reconstructed tracks and calorimeter cells. The τ lepton kinematics are derived from the kinematics of the original muons. Thus, only the well-understood decays of the Z boson and τ leptons as well as the detector response to the τ decay products are obtained from simulation. All other aspects of the event, such as the Z boson and jet kinematics as well as effects from multiple interactions, are given by the actual data. This so-called τ-embedding method is particularly relevant for Higgs boson searches and analyses in ττ final states, where Zarrowττ decays constitute a large irreducible background that cannot be obtained directly from data control samples. In this paper, the relevant concepts are discussed based on the implementation used in the ATLAS Standard Model H→ττ analysis of the full datataset recorded during 2011 and 2012.
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Journal Article (Original Article) |
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Division/Institute: |
10 Strategic Research Centers > Albert Einstein Center for Fundamental Physics (AEC) 08 Faculty of Science > Physics Institute > Laboratory for High Energy Physics (LHEP) 08 Faculty of Science > Other Institutions > Emeriti, Faculty of Science |
UniBE Contributor: |
Beck, Hans Peter, Cervelli, Alberto, Ereditato, Antonio, Haug, Sigve, Meloni, Federico, Mullier, Geoffrey André Adrien, Pretzl, Klaus-Peter, Stramaglia, Maria Elena, Stucci, Stefania, Weber, Michele |
Subjects: |
500 Science > 530 Physics |
ISSN: |
1748-0221 |
Publisher: |
Institute of Physics Publishing IOP |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Annette Krebs-Wegenast |
Date Deposited: |
08 Sep 2016 08:24 |
Last Modified: |
05 Dec 2022 14:58 |
Publisher DOI: |
10.1088/1748-0221/10/09/P09018 |
Web of Science ID: |
1506.05623v2 |
Additional Information: |
Kollaboration - Es sind nur die Berner Autoren namentlich erwähnt |
BORIS DOI: |
10.7892/boris.87615 |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/87615 |
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