TY - JOUR
T1 - Reconstruction of primary vertices at the ATLAS experiment in Run 1 proton-proton collisions at the LHC
AU - Aaboud, M.
AU - Aad, G.
AU - Abbott, B.
AU - Abdallah, J.
AU - Abdinov, O.
AU - Abeloos, B
AU - Aben, R.
AU - AbouZeid, O.S.
AU - Abraham, NL
AU - Abramowicz, H.
AU - Abreu, H.
AU - Abreu, R.
AU - Abulaiti, Y.
AU - Acharya, B.S.
AU - Adams, David L.
AU - Dam, Mogens
AU - Hansen, Jørn Dines
AU - Hansen, Jørgen Beck
AU - Xella, Stefania
AU - Hansen, Peter Henrik
AU - Petersen, Troels Christian
AU - Thomsen, Lotte Ansgaard
AU - Alonso Diaz, Alejandro
AU - Monk, James William
AU - Wiglesworth, Graig
AU - Pedersen, Lars Egholm
AU - Besjes, Geert-Jan
AU - Stark, Simon Holm
AU - Galster, Gorm Aske Gram Krohn
AU - Løvschall-Jensen, Ask Emil
AU - Thiele, Fabian Alexander Jürgen
AU - de Almeida Dias, Flavia
AU - Bajic, Milena
AU - Barr, John
AU - Zhu, H.
PY - 2017/5/1
Y1 - 2017/5/1
N2 - This paper presents the method and performance of primary vertex reconstruction in proton–proton collision data recorded by the ATLAS experiment during Run 1 of the LHC. The studies presented focus on data taken during 2012 at a centre-of-mass energy of s=8 TeV. The performance has been measured as a function of the number of interactions per bunch crossing over a wide range, from one to seventy. The measurement of the position and size of the luminous region and its use as a constraint to improve the primary vertex resolution are discussed. A longitudinal vertex position resolution of about 30μm is achieved for events with high multiplicity of reconstructed tracks. The transverse position resolution is better than 20μm and is dominated by the precision on the size of the luminous region. An analytical model is proposed to describe the primary vertex reconstruction efficiency as a function of the number of interactions per bunch crossing and of the longitudinal size of the luminous region. Agreement between the data and the predictions of this model is better than 3% up to seventy interactions per bunch crossing.
AB - This paper presents the method and performance of primary vertex reconstruction in proton–proton collision data recorded by the ATLAS experiment during Run 1 of the LHC. The studies presented focus on data taken during 2012 at a centre-of-mass energy of s=8 TeV. The performance has been measured as a function of the number of interactions per bunch crossing over a wide range, from one to seventy. The measurement of the position and size of the luminous region and its use as a constraint to improve the primary vertex resolution are discussed. A longitudinal vertex position resolution of about 30μm is achieved for events with high multiplicity of reconstructed tracks. The transverse position resolution is better than 20μm and is dominated by the precision on the size of the luminous region. An analytical model is proposed to describe the primary vertex reconstruction efficiency as a function of the number of interactions per bunch crossing and of the longitudinal size of the luminous region. Agreement between the data and the predictions of this model is better than 3% up to seventy interactions per bunch crossing.
U2 - 10.1140/epjc/s10052-017-4887-5
DO - 10.1140/epjc/s10052-017-4887-5
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 28943786
SN - 1434-6044
VL - 77
JO - European Physical Journal C
JF - European Physical Journal C
IS - 5
M1 - 332
ER -