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Measurement of the electron reconstruction efficiency at LHCb

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dc.contributor Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
dc.contributor Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear Science
dc.creator The LHCb Collaboration
dc.creator Boettcher, Thomas Julian
dc.creator Craik, Daniel C
dc.creator Weisser, Constantin
dc.creator Williams, Michael
dc.date 2022-09-21T18:42:52Z
dc.date 2021-10-27T19:54:08Z
dc.date 2022-09-21T18:42:52Z
dc.date 2019
dc.date 2020-11-18T17:16:30Z
dc.date.accessioned 2023-02-17T20:10:00Z
dc.date.available 2023-02-17T20:10:00Z
dc.identifier https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/133681.2
dc.identifier.uri http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/CUHPOERS/242162
dc.description © 2019 CERN for the benefit of the LHCb collaboration.. The single electron track-reconstruction efficiency is calibrated using a sample corresponding to 1.3 fb-1 of pp collision data recorded with the LHCb detector in 2017. This measurement exploits B+ J/ψ(e+e-)K+ decays, where one of the electrons is fully reconstructed and paired with the kaon, while the other electron is reconstructed using only the information of the vertex detector. Despite this partial reconstruction, kinematic and geometric constraints allow the B meson mass to be reconstructed and the signal to be well separated from backgrounds. This in turn allows the electron reconstruction efficiency to be measured by matching the partial track segment found in the vertex detector to tracks found by LHCb's regular reconstruction algorithms. The agreement between data and simulation is evaluated, and corrections are derived for simulated electrons in bins of kinematics. These correction factors allow LHCb to measure branching fractions involving single electrons with a systematic uncertainty below 1%.
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dc.language en
dc.publisher IOP Publishing
dc.relation 10.1088/1748-0221/14/11/P11023
dc.relation Journal of Instrumentation
dc.rights Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 unported license
dc.rights https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
dc.source IOP Publishing
dc.title Measurement of the electron reconstruction efficiency at LHCb
dc.type Article
dc.type http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle


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