Tools for estimating fake/non-prompt lepton backgrounds with the ATLAS detector at the LHC

• Published in: Journal of instrumentation Vol. 18; no. 11; p. T11004
• Main Authors: Amelung, C., Angerami, A., Araujo Ferraz, V., Armbruster, A.J., Bahmani, M., Balz, J., Barends, K.N., Bi, R., Bingul, A., Burdin, S., Chiedde, N., Clavijo Columbie, J.M., Cohen, H., Crescioli, F., Cui, Z., D'amen, G., Das, S.J., De Salvo, A., Dittus, F., Ehrke, L.F., Ene, I., Farilla, A., Ferguson, R.A.M., Ferrere, D., Fountas, L., Froch, A., Froidevaux, D., Fujimoto, M., Gabrielli, A., Gagliardi, G., Gautam, V., Gazis, E.N., Gerlach, L.O., Golubkov, D., Grancagnolo, S., Guan, L., Haug, S., Hehir, N.D., Hirose, M., Hohn, D., Ishino, M., Jinnouchi, O., Keaveney, J.M., Kelsey, D., Kirk, J., Kluit, P., Kono, T., Li, L., Li, S., Liu, B.X., Liu, P., Loffredo, S., Longarini, I., Lou, X., Manzoni, S., Martin dit Latour, B., Martinez Suarez, P., Montella, M., Muse, J.M., Nishu, N., Nommensen, T., Ozturk, S., Padilla Aranda, C., Peng, H., Petukhova, K., Pleskot, V., Polifka, R., Prades Ibanez, A., Reeves, K., Ressegotti, M., Resseguie, E.D., Rettie, S., Rodríguez Vera, A.M., Rompotis, N., Rosser, B.J., Ruelas Rivera, V.H., Saito, T., Salvatore, D., Salzburger, A., Schäfer, U., Shaw, S.M., Silverstein, S.B., Staroba, P., Stockton, M.C., Ströhmer, R., Tamir, N.M., Tariq, K., Tomoto, M., Vishwakarma, A., Vladimirov, V., Wada, S., Wang, T., Weingarten, J., Winter, J.K., Wosiek, B.K., Yacoob, S., Yan, J., Yue, L., Zhang, X.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Bristol IOP Publishing 2023; Institute of Physics (IOP)
• Subjects: Analysis and statistical methods; Estimation; Large Hadron Collider; Leptons; Particle decay; Particle identification methods

Measurements and searches performed with the ATLAS detector at the CERN LHC often involve signatures with one or more prompt leptons. Such analysesare subject to `fake/non-prompt' lepton backgrounds, where either a hadron or a lepton from a hadron decay or an electron from a photon conversion s...