TY  - JOUR
AU  - ATLAS Collaboration (Aad, G. et al
AU  - Cabrera Urban, S.
AU  - Castillo Gimenez, V.
AU  - Costa, M. J.
AU  - Fassi, F.
AU  - Ferrer, A.
AU  - Fiorini, L.
AU  - Fuster, J.
AU  - Garcia, C.
AU  - Garcia Navarro, J. E.
AU  - Gonzalez de la Hoz, S.
AU  - Hernandez Jimenez, Y.
AU  - Higon-Rodriguez, E.
AU  - Irles Quiles, A.
AU  - Kaci, M.
AU  - Lacasta, C.
AU  - Lacuesta, V. R.
AU  - March, L.
AU  - Marti-Garcia, S.
AU  - Miñano, M.
AU  - Mitsou, V. A.
AU  - Moles-Valls, R.
AU  - Moreno Llacer, M.
AU  - Oliver Garcia, E.
AU  - Pedraza Lopez, S.
AU  - Perez Garcia-Estañ, M. T.
AU  - Romero Adam, E.
AU  - Ros, E.
AU  - Salt, J.
AU  - Sanchez Martinez, V.
AU  - Solans, C. A.
AU  - Soldevila, U.
AU  - Sanchez, J.
AU  - Torro Pastor, E.
AU  - Valero, A.
AU  - Valladolid Gallego, E.
AU  - Valls Ferrer, J. A.
AU  - Villaplana Perez, M.
AU  - Vos, M.
PY  - 2013
DA  - 2013//
TI  - Characterisation and mitigation of beam-induced backgrounds observed in the ATLAS detector during the 2011 proton-proton run
T2  - J. Instrum.
JO  - Journal of Instrumentation
SP  - P07004 - 72pp
VL  - 8
PB  - Iop Publishing Ltd
KW  - Pattern recognition
KW  - cluster finding
KW  - calibration and fitting methods
KW  - Performance of High Energy Physics Detectors
KW  - Accelerator modelling and simulations (multi-particle dynamics
KW  - single-particle dynamics)
KW  - Analysis and statistical methods
AB  - 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.
SN  - 1748-0221
UR  - http://arxiv.org/abs/arXiv:1303.0223
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/8/07/P07004
DO  - 10.1088/1748-0221/8/07/P07004
LA  - English
N1  - WOS:000322572900015
ID  - ATLASCollaborationAad_etal2013
ER  -