30 September 2019 to 4 October 2019
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ECAL trigger performance in Run 2 and improvements for Run 3

1 Oct 2019, 17:00
12m

Speaker

Marko Kovac (University of Split Faculty of Science (HR))

Description

The CMS Electromagnetic Calorimeter (ECAL) is a high resolution crystal calorimeter operating at the CERN LHC. It is responsible for the identification and precise reconstruction of electrons and photons in CMS, which were crucial in the discovery and subsequent characterization of the Higgs boson. It also contributes to the reconstruction of tau leptons, jets, and calorimeter energy sums, which are are vital components of many Higgs analyses.

The ECAL trigger system employs fast digital signal processing algorithms to precisely measure the energy and timing information of ECAL energy deposits recorded during LHC collisions. These trigger primitives are transmitted to the Level-1 trigger system at the LHC collisions rate of 40 MHz. These energy deposits are then combined with information from other CMS sub-detectors to determine whether the event should trigger the readout of the data from CMS to permanent storage.

This presentation will summarize the ECAL trigger performance achieved during LHC Run 2 (2015-2018), with specific reference to the impact on triggers relevant for Higgs signal processes. It will describe the methods that are used to provide frequent calibrations of the ECAL trigger primitives during LHC operation. These are needed to account for radiation-induced changes in crystal and photodetector response, to maintain stable trigger rates and efficiencies up to |eta|=3.0. They also minimize the spurious triggering on direct signals in the photodetectors used in the barrel region (|eta|<1.48). Both of these effects are increased relative to LHC Run 1 (2009-2012), due to the higher luminosities experienced in Run 2.

Further improvements in the energy and time reconstruction of the CMS ECAL trigger primitives are being explored for LHC Run 3 (2021-23), using additional features implemented in the on-detector readout. These are particularly focused on improving the performance at the highest instantaneous luminosities (which will reach or exceed 2x10^34 cm-2 s-1 in Run 3) and in the most forward regions of the calorimeter (|eta|>2.5), where the effects of detector aging will be the greatest. The main features of these improved algorithms will be described and preliminary estimates of the potential performance gains for Higgs physics will be given.

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