@Article{ATLASCollaborationAad_etal2013,
author="ATLAS Collaboration (Aad, G. et al
and Cabrera Urban, S.
and Castillo Gimenez, V.
and Costa, M. J.
and Fassi, F.
and Ferrer, A.
and Fiorini, L.
and Fuster, J.
and Garcia, C.
and Garcia Navarro, J. E.
and Gonzalez de la Hoz, S.
and Hernandez Jimenez, Y.
and Higon-Rodriguez, E.
and Irles Quiles, A.
and Kaci, M.
and Lacasta, C.
and Lacuesta, V. R.
and March, L.
and Marti-Garcia, S.
and Mi{\~A}{\textpm}ano, M.
and Mitsou, V. A.
and Moles-Valls, R.
and Moreno Llacer, M.
and Oliver Garcia, E.
and Pedraza Lopez, S.
and Perez Garcia-Esta{\~A}{\textpm}, M. T.
and Romero Adam, E.
and Ros, E.
and Salt, J.
and Sanchez Martinez, V.
and Solans, C. A.
and Soldevila, U.
and Sanchez, J.
and Torro Pastor, E.
and Valero, A.
and Valladolid Gallego, E.
and Valls Ferrer, J. A.
and Villaplana Perez, M.
and Vos, M.",
title="Characterisation and mitigation of beam-induced backgrounds observed in the ATLAS detector during the 2011 proton-proton run",
journal="Journal of Instrumentation",
year="2013",
publisher="Iop Publishing Ltd",
volume="8",
pages="P07004 - 72pp",
optkeywords="Pattern recognition; cluster finding; calibration and fitting methods; Performance of High Energy Physics Detectors; Accelerator modelling and simulations (multi-particle dynamics; single-particle dynamics); Analysis and statistical methods",
abstract="This paper presents a summary of beam-induced backgrounds observed in the ATLAS detector and discusses methods to tag and remove background contaminated events in data. Trigger-rate based monitoring of beam-related backgrounds is presented. The correlations of backgrounds with machine conditions, such as residual pressure in the beam-pipe, are discussed. Results from dedicated beam-background simulations are shown, and their qualitative agreement with data is evaluated. Data taken during the passage of unpaired, i.e. non-colliding, proton bunches is used to obtain background-enriched data samples. These are used to identify characteristic features of beam-induced backgrounds, which then are exploited to develop dedicated background tagging tools. These tools, based on observables in the Pixel detector, the muon spectrometer and the calorimeters, are described in detail and their efficiencies are evaluated. Finally an example of an application of these techniques to a monojet analysis is given, which demonstrates the importance of such event cleaning techniques for some new physics searches.",
optnote="WOS:000322572900015",
optnote="exported from refbase (https://references.ific.uv.es/refbase/show.php?record=1557), last updated on Thu, 12 Sep 2013 08:36:30 +0000",
issn="1748-0221",
doi="10.1088/1748-0221/8/07/P07004",
opturl="http://arxiv.org/abs/arXiv:1303.0223",
opturl="https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/8/07/P07004",
archivePrefix="arXiv",
eprint="arXiv:1303.0223",
language="English"
}