Reconstruction and identification of τ lepton decays to hadrons and ν<inf>τ</inf> at CMS
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The CMS Collaboration
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© CERN 2016. This paper describes the algorithms used by the CMS experiment to reconstruct and identify τ → hadrons + νtau; decays during Run 1 of the LHC. The performance of the algorithms is studied in proton-proton collisions recorded at a centre-of-mass energy of 8 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 19.7 fb-1. The algorithms achieve an identification efficiency of 50-60%, with misidentification rates for quark and gluon jets, electrons, and muons between per mille and per cent levels.
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2016-01-29Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear ScienceJournal
Journal of Instrumentation
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IOP Publishing
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Khachatryan, V., et al. "Reconstruction and Identification of Tau Lepton Decays to Hadrons and Nu(Tau) at Cms." Journal of Instrumentation 11 (2016).
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