Publication at Faculty of Mathematics and Physics |
2012
Abstract
The ATLAS inner detector is used to reconstruct secondary vertices due to hadronic interactions of primary collision products, so probing the location and amount of material in the inner region of ATLAS. Data collected in 7 TeV pp collisions at the LHC, with a minimum bias trigger, are used for comparisons with simulated events.
The reconstructed secondary vertices have spatial resolutions ranging from similar to 200 mu m to 1 mm. The overall material description in the simulation is validated to within an experimental uncertainty of about 7%.
This will lead to a better understanding of the reconstruction of various objects such as tracks, leptons, jets, and missing transverse momentum.