Andrey Elagin, Pavel Murat, Alexandre Pranko, Alexei Safonov
Algorithms based on the particle flow approach are becoming increasingly utilized in collider experiments due to their superior jet energy and missing energy resolution compared to the traditional calorimeter-based measurements. Such methods have been shown to work well in environments with low occupancy of particles per unit of calorimeter granularity. However, at higher instantaneous luminosity or in detectors with coarse calorimeter segmentation, the overlaps of calorimeter energy deposits from charged and neutral particles significantly complicate particle energy reconstruction, reducing the overall energy resolution of the method. We present a technique designed to resolve overlapping energy depositions of spatially close particles using a statistically consistent probabilistic procedure. The technique is nearly free of ad-hoc corrections, improves energy resolution, and provides new important handles that can improve the sensitivity of physics analyses: the uncertainty of the jet energy on event-by-event basis and the estimate of the probability of a given particle hypothesis for a given detector response. Applied to the hadronic tau reconstruction using the CDF-II detector at Fermilab, the method has demonstrated reliable and robust performance.
View original:
http://arxiv.org/abs/1207.4780
No comments:
Post a Comment