Configuration and performance of the ATLAS $b$-jet triggers in Run 2

Abstract

Several improvements to the ATLAS triggers used to identify jets containing $b$-hadrons ($b$-jets) were implemented for data-taking during Run 2 of the Large Hadron Collider from 2016 to 2018. These changes include reconfiguring the $b$-jet trigger software to improve primary-vertex finding and allow more stable running in conditions with high pile-up, and the implementation of the functionality needed to run sophisticated taggers used by the offline reconstruction in an online environment. These improvements yielded an order of magnitude better light-flavour jet rejection for the same $b$-jet identification efficiency compared to the performance in Run 1 (2011-2012). The efficiency to identify $b$-jets in the trigger, and the conditional efficiency for $b$-jets that satisfy offline $b$-tagging requirements to pass the trigger are also measured. Correction factors are derived to calibrate the $b$-tagging efficiency in simulation to match that observed in data. The associated systematic uncertainties are substantially smaller than in previous measurements. In addition, $b$-jet triggers were operated for the first time during heavy-ion data-taking, using dedicated triggers that were developed to identify semileptonic $b$-hadron decays by selecting events with geometrically overlapping muons and jets.

arXiv comment64 pages in total, author list starting page 48, 17 figures, 10 tables. All figures including auxiliary figures are available at http://atlas.web.cern.ch/Atlas/GROUPS/PHYSICS/PAPERS/TRIG-2018-08

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