Journal Article

Topological cell clustering in the ATLAS calorimeters and its performance in LHC Run 1

Okawa H., Ukegawa F., Hara K., Kim S.H., 受川 史彦, 原 和彦, 金 信弘, 大川 英希, ATLAS Collaboration, Sato K., 佐藤 構二

2017

Overview

The reconstruction of the signal from hadrons and jets emerging from the proton–proton collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and entering the ATLAS calorimeters is based on a three-dimensional topological clustering of individual calorimeter cell signals. The cluster formation follows cell signal-significance patterns generated by electromagnetic and hadronic showers. In this, the clustering algorithm implicitly performs a topological noise suppression by removing cells with insignificant signals which are not in close proximity to cells with significant signals. The resulting topological cell clusters have shape and location information, which is exploited to apply a local energy calibration and corrections depending on the nature of the cluster. Topological cell clustering is established as a well-performing calorimeter signal definition for jet and missing transverse momentum reconstruction in ATLAS.

• Publisher: Springer,Springer Berlin Heidelberg,Springer Nature B.V,Springer Verlag (Germany)
• Subject: Accident reconstruction / Astronomy / Astrophysics and Cosmology / Clustering / Clusters / Electromagnetism / Elementary Particles / Fysik / Hadrons / Heavy Ions / High Energy Physics - Experiment / Large Hadron Collider / Measurement Science and Instrumentation / Natural Sciences / Naturvetenskap / Nuclear Energy / Nuclear Physics / Particle accelerators / Particle collisions / Physical Sciences / Physics / Physics and Astronomy / Quantum Field Theories / Quantum Field Theory / Regular - Experimental Physics / Regular Article - Experimental Physics / String Theory / Subatomic Physics / Subatomär fysik / Transverse momentum