Performance of CMS muon reconstruction in pp collision events at √s = 7 TeV
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Alver, Burak Han; Bauer, Gerry P; Bendavid, Joshua L.; Busza, Wit; Butz, Erik M.; Cali, Ivan Amos; Chan, M.; Dutta, Valentina; Gomez-Ceballos, Guillelmo; Goncharov, Maxim; Hahn, Kristian Allan; Kim, Y.; Klute, Markus; Lee, Y.-J.; Li, W.; Luckey Jr, P David; Ma, T.; Nahn, Steven C.; Paus, Christoph M. E.; Ralph, Duncan Kelley; Roland, Christof E; Roland, Gunther M; Rudolph, Matthew Scott; Stephans, George S. F.; Stockli, Fabian; Sumorok, Konstanty C; Sung, K.; Velicanu, Dragos Alexandru; Wenger, Edward Allen; Wolf, Roger; Wyslouch, Boleslaw; Xie, Si; Yang, M.; Yilmaz, Yetkin; Yoon, A. S.; Zanetti, Marco; ... Show more Show less
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The performance of muon reconstruction, identification, and triggering in CMS has been studied using 40 pb⁻¹ of data collected in pp collisions at √s = 7 TeV at the LHC in 2010. A few benchmark sets of selection criteria covering a wide range of physics analysis needs have been examined. For all considered selections, the efficiency to reconstruct and identify a muon with a transverse momentum pT larger than a few GeV/c is above 95% over the whole region of pseudorapidity covered by the CMS muon system, < 2.4, while the probability to misidentify a hadron as a muon is well below 1%. The efficiency to trigger on single muons with pT above a few GeVc is higher than 90% over the full η range, and typically substantially better. The overall momentum scale is measured to a precision of 0.2% with muons from Z decays. The transverse momentum resolution varies from 1% to 6% depending on pseudorapidity for muons with pT below 100GeV/c and, using cosmic rays, it is shown to be better than 10% in the central region up to pT = 1 TeV/c. Observed distributions of all quantities are well reproduced by the Monte Carlo simulation.
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2012-10Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear Science; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Nuclear Science and EngineeringJournal
Journal of Instrumentation
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IOP Publishing
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Chatrchyan, S. et al. "Performance of CMS muon reconstruction in pp collision events at √s = 7 TeV." Journal of Instrumentation 7 (June 2012): P10002 © 2012 IOP Publishing Ltd
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1748-0221