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Description
Electron, muon and photon triggers covering transverse energies from a few GeV to several TeV are essential for signal selection in a wide variety of ATLAS physics analyses to study Standard Model processes and to search for new phenomena. Final states including leptons and photons had, for example, an important role in the discovery and measurement of the Higgs particle. Dedicated triggers are also used to collect data for calibration, efficiency and fake rate measurements. The trigger system of the ATLAS experiment at the LHC is divided in a hardware-based Level 1 and a software based high level trigger, both of which were upgraded during the long shutdown of the LHC in preparation for data taking in 2015. The increasing luminosity and more challenging pile-up conditions as well as the planned higher center-of-mass energy demanded the optimisation of the trigger selections at each level, to control the rates and keep efficiencies high. To control the rate, new hardware selections are implemented at the Level 1. To improve the performance multivariate analysis techniques are introduced for the electron selections.
The evolution of the ATLAS electron, muon and photon triggers and their performance will be presented, including new results from the 2015 LHC Run 2 operation.
| Primary Keyword (Mandatory) | Trigger |
|---|---|
| Secondary Keyword (Optional) | Algorithms |
| Tertiary Keyword (Optional) | Reconstruction |
