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Search for bad channelsSearch for bad channels
in the ATLAS EM Calorimeterin the ATLAS EM Calorimeter
N. DaciN. Daci
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The LHC ExperimentsThe LHC Experiments
CMS
LHCbALICE
ATLAS
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The LHC ExperimentsThe LHC Experiments
Goals :
• Search for the Higgs boson, CP violation study
• Search for new physics beyond the Standard Model : supersymetric particles, extra dimensions
CMS & ATLAS
The LHC will accelerate bunches of protons, whose collisions will produce thousands of particles. Among these events, we want to select those who are interesting.
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The ATLAS detectorThe ATLAS detectorATLAS is composed of cylindrical subdetectors :
• The Muon Spectrometer : measures the momentum of muons
• The toroïdal magnet, which curves the muon’s trajectories
• The EM and Hadronic Calorimeters : identify the nature of the particles and measure their energy.
• The solenoïd magnet, which curves their trajectories
• The inner detector : measures the trajectories and momentum of charged particles
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The EM CalorimeterThe EM CalorimeterAlternance of absorbant middle, and instrumented middle (Liquid Argon + electrodes) :
• in the first one e-/ loose their energy and convert into an EM shower
• the second one measures the ionization current from the secondary particles of these EM showers
• When a particle pass through the EM Calorimeter, it deposits energy in these cells. By grouping cells with significant signal into a cluster, EM objects are identified.• Aim of my work : check the reconstructed EM objects to validate some monitoring tools
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Problematic behaviorsProblematic behaviors
• We can see a region containing a lot of these problematic clusters
• Even the fact that there is a lot of clusters in a region is a problem : for these cosmic datas, it is almost impossible for a muon to pass through the same region twice an hour.
• I identified 4 problematic behaviors : clusters’duplication, negative energy, cluster’s seeds containing too much energy
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Duplicated clustersDuplicated clusters• The clustering algorithm may lead to several clusters, from a single real energy deposit.
• Once we understand that, we can check if these problematic clusters dissappear when we remove duplicated ones
• The surrounded region contain less clusters but is still present.
• In each event, if some clusters share cells, I kept only the higher energy cluster and removed the others.
• The number of problematic clusters decreased but not sufficiently.
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Sporadic burst noiseSporadic burst noise• We can find three monitoring histograms indicating a problem in this region
• Some cells have a lot of times a significant signal, although for cosmic datas it is impossible for a given cell.
=> Although these cells are known as problematic, and supposed to be masked, they lead to the reconstruction of a lot of fake EM objects
• These cells are known as « sporadic Burst Noise » : they behave normally most of the time, and sometimes they have a peak of noise.
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Sporadic burst noiseSporadic burst noise• Once we understood that problem, what happens if we remove all events containing a cluster generated by a sporadic cell ?• Much less problematic clusters, especially in the surrounded region, but in the whole detector too
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ConclusionConclusion
• The correction of sporadic noise is not 100% efficient : sporadic cells are known, and masked following a quality factor, but they still induce several fake clusters
• The monitoring histograms allow to identify cells containing a significant signal too much times
• Some other histograms allow to identify regions with too much clusters• Then the cells monitoring histograms may suggest to check some cells when they appear too much