Performance of the ATLAS Level-1 topological trigger in Run 2

Journal article

During LHC Run 2 (2015–2018) the ATLAS Level-1 topological trigger allowed efficient data-taking by the ATLAS experiment at luminosities up to 2.1×1034 cm−2s−1, which exceeds the design value by a factor of two. The system was installed in 2016 and operated in 2017 and 2018. It uses Field Programmable Gate Array processors to select interesting events by placing kinematic and angular requirements on electromagnetic clusters, jets, τ-leptons, muons and the missing transverse energy. It allowed to significantly improve the background event rejection and signal event acceptance, in particular for Higgs and B-physics processes

Authors: Aad, G; Abbott, B; Abbott, DC; Abud, AA; Abeling, K

• Publication status: Published
• Peer review status: Peer reviewed
• Publisher: SpringerOpen
• Journal: The European Physical Journal C
• Volume: 82
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 7
• Article number: 7
• Publication date: 2022-01-05
• DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-021-09807-0
• EISSN: 1434-6052
• ISSN: 1434-6044
• Language: English
• Keywords: Muon; Topology (electrical circuits); Atlas (anatomy); Electrical engineering; ATLAS experiment; Kinematics; Particle physics; Physics; Event (particle physics); Higgs boson; Electron; Large Hadron Collider; Engineering; Nuclear physics; Lepton