Fast b-tagging at the high-level trigger of the ATLAS experiment in LHC Run 3

Abstract: The ATLAS experiment relies on real-time hadronic jet reconstruction and b-tagging to record fully hadronic events containing b-jets. These algorithms require track reconstruction, which is computationally expensive and could overwhelm the high-level-trigger farm, even at the reduced event rate that passes the ATLAS first stage hardware-based trigger. In LHC Run 3, ATLAS has mitigated these computational demands by introducing a fast neural-network-based b-tagger, which acts as a low-precision filter using input from hadronic jets and tracks. It runs after a hardware trigger and before the remaining high-level-trigger reconstruction. This design relies on the negligible cost of neural-network inference as compared to track reconstruction, and the cost reduction from limiting tracking to specific regions of the detector. In the case of Standard Model HH → bb̅bb̅, a key signature relying on b-jet triggers, the filter lowers the input rate to the remaining high-level trigger by a factor of five at the small cost of reducing the overall signal efficiency by roughly 2%

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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
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Englisch
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Journal of Instrumentation. - 18, 11 (2023) , P11006, ISSN: 1748-0221

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Freiburg
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2024
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Experimentelle Teilchenphysik

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10.1088/1748-0221/18/11/p11006
URN
urn:nbn:de:bsz:25-freidok-2544043
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