%0 Journal Article
%T Modelling Z -> ττ processes in ATLAS with τ-embedded Z -> μμ data
%A ATLAS Collaboration (Aad, G. et al
%A Alvarez Piqueras, D.
%A Cabrera Urban, S.
%A Castillo Gimenez, V.
%A Costa, M. J.
%A Fernandez Martinez, P.
%A Ferrer, A.
%A Fiorini, L.
%A Fuster, J.
%A Garcia, C.
%A Garcia Navarro, J. E.
%A Gonzalez de la Hoz, S.
%A Hernandez Jimenez, Y.
%A Higon-Rodriguez, E.
%A Irles Quiles, A.
%A Jimenez Pena, J.
%A Kaci, M.
%A King, M.
%A Lacasta, C.
%A Lacuesta, V. R.
%A Marti-Garcia, S.
%A Mitsou, V. A.
%A Oliver Garcia, E.
%A Pedraza Lopez, S.
%A Perez Garcia-Estañ, M. T.
%A Romero Adam, E.
%A Ros, E.
%A Salt, J.
%A Sanchez Martinez, V.
%A Soldevila, U.
%A Sanchez, J.
%A Torro Pastor, E.
%A Valero, A.
%A Valladolid Gallego, E.
%A Valls Ferrer, J. A.
%A Vos, M.
%J Journal of Instrumentation
%D 2015
%V 10
%I Iop Publishing Ltd
%@ 1748-0221
%G English
%F ATLASCollaborationAad_etal2015
%O WOS:000362421300021
%O exported from refbase (https://references.ific.uv.es/refbase/show.php?record=2410), last updated on Thu, 29 Oct 2015 16:15:53 +0000
%X This paper describes the concept, technical realisation and validation of a largely data-driven method to model events with Z -> tau tau decays. In Z -> μμevents selected from proton-proton collision data recorded at root s = 8 TeV with the ATLAS experiment at the LHC in 2012, the Z decay muons are replaced by tau leptons from simulated Z -> tau tau decays at the level of reconstructed tracks and calorimeter cells. The tau lepton kinematics are derived from the kinematics of the original muons. Thus, only the well-understood decays of the Z boson and tau leptons as well as the detector response to the tau 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 tau-embedding method is particularly relevant for Higgs boson searches and analyses in tau tau final states, where Z -> tau tau 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 -> tau tau analysis of the full datataset recorded during 2011 and 2012.
%K Performance of High Energy Physics Detectors
%K Simulation methods and programs
%K Analysis and statistical methods
%R 10.1088/1748-0221/10/09/P09018
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/1506.05623
%U https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/10/09/P09018
%P P09018 - 41pp