Electron and photon efficiencies in LHC Run 2 with the ATLAS experiment

Author:

ATLAS Collaboration

Keyword:

High Energy Physics - Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)

journal:

CERN-EP-2023-182

date:

2023-08-24 16:00:00

Abstract

Precision measurements of electron reconstruction, identification, and isolation efficiencies and photon identification efficiencies are presented. They use the full Run 2 data of $pp$ collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 139 $\mathrm{fb}^{-1}$ collected by the ATLAS experiment during the years 2015-2018. The measured electron identification efficiencies have uncertainties that are around 30%-50% smaller than the previous Run 2 results due to an improved methodology and the inclusion of more data. A better pile-up subtraction method leads to electron isolation efficiencies that are more independent of the amount of pile-up activity. Updated photon identification efficiencies are also presented, using the full Run 2 data. When compared to the previous measurement, a 30%-40% smaller uncertainty is observed on the photon identification efficiencies, thanks to the increased amount of available data.

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