Reconstruction and identification of τ lepton decays to hadrons and ντ at CMS

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Abstract

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.

Original languageEnglish
Article numberP01019
JournalJournal of Instrumentation
Volume11
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - 29 Jan 2016

Keywords

  • Large detector systems for particle and astroparticle physics
  • Particle identification methods

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