par Sirunyan, A.M.;Beghin, Diego
;Bilin, Bugra
;Brun, Hugues
;Clerbaux, Barbara
;De Lentdecker, Gilles
;Delannoy, Hugo
;Dorney, Brian
;Fasanella, Giuseppe
;Favart, Laurent
;Goldouzian, Reza
;Grebenyuk, Anastasia
;Kalsi, Amandeep Kaur
;Lenzi, Thomas
;Luetic, Jelena
;Postiau, Nicolas
;Starling, Elizabeth Rose
;Thomas, Laurent
;Vander Velde, Catherine
;Vanlaer, Pascal
;Vannerom, David
;Wang, Qun
; [et al.]
Référence Journal of Instrumentation, 13, 10, P10005
Publication Publié, 2018-10-02





















Référence Journal of Instrumentation, 13, 10, P10005
Publication Publié, 2018-10-02
Article révisé par les pairs
Résumé : | The algorithm developed by the CMS Collaboration to reconstruct and identify τ leptons produced in proton-proton collisions at s=7 and 8 TeV, via their decays to hadrons and a neutrino, has been significantly improved. The changes include a revised reconstruction of π0 candidates, and improvements in multivariate discriminants to separate τ leptons from jets and electrons. The algorithm is extended to reconstruct τ leptons in highly Lorentz-boosted pair production, and in the high-level trigger. The performance of the algorithm is studied using proton-proton collisions recorded during 2016 at s=13 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 35.9 fb-1. The performance is evaluated in terms of the efficiency for a genuine τ lepton to pass the identification criteria and of the probabilities for jets, electrons, and muons to be misidentified as τ leptons. The results are found to be very close to those expected from Monte Carlo simulation. |