CERN-THESIS-2012-153 26/07/2012 - CERN Document Server
CERN-THESIS-2012-153 26/07/2012 - CERN Document Server
CERN-THESIS-2012-153 26/07/2012 - CERN Document Server
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Jets<br />
The jet energy scale (JES) and its uncertainty are derived by combining information from test-beam data,<br />
LHC collision data and simulation. Uncertainties associated with the energy scale of light-quark jets and<br />
b-jets are studied as a function of the jet transverse momentum and η. For jets within the acceptance, the<br />
JES uncertainty varies in the range 4-8% as a function of jet pT and η. This uncertainty has a contribu-<br />
tion from pile-up. This pile-up uncertainty, in the central region is 5% for jets with 20 < pT < 50 GeV<br />
and 2% for jets with 50 < pT < 100 GeV. For forward jets, the pile-up uncertainty is 7% and 3%, in the<br />
respective pT ranges. Additional contributions are considered to account for the flavor composition and the<br />
presence of nearby jets uncertainties. The former gives an additional uncertainty of 1.1-2.5% to b-jets with<br />
pT > 25 GeV. This uncertainty increases with decreasing momentum. The effect of the jet reconstruction<br />
efficiency uncertainty is studied by randomly removing 2% of the jets from the events. The effect of potential<br />
jet resolution mis-modelling in the MC is evaluated by additional smearing of the reconstructed jet energies<br />
within the uncertainties. In each case, the difference with respect to the nominal is taken as the systematic<br />
uncertainty.<br />
Missing Transverse Energy<br />
The most relevant sources of systematic uncertainties in the E miss<br />
T<br />
measurement come from the scale and<br />
resolution of the objects, the description of the pile-up events, and the impact of hardware failures. All<br />
changes applied to electrons, muons and jets are propagated to the E miss<br />
T<br />
measurement. The uncertainties<br />
on the scale and resolution of the objects is propagated into E miss<br />
T , assuming a 100% correlation between<br />
the uncertainty of the objects and the Emiss T . Uncertainties related to the Emiss T itself are also studied. In<br />
particular, the effect of the remaining energy in the calorimeter, not associated with any reconstruction<br />
objects (Cell Out), and of low momenta (7 GeV < pT < 20 GeV) jets (Soft-Jet) is studied, as well as the<br />
uncertainty due to pile-up. Soft-Jet and Cell Out terms are scaled by their total uncertainty assuming a<br />
100% correlation. A flat 10% uncertainty, correlated with Cell Out and Soft-Jets, is applied to account for<br />
the uncertainty due to pile-up. To account for the effects of the dead FEBs in the EM calorimeter, affecting<br />
about 42% of the total data used in the analysis, an additional systematic uncertainty, denoted LAr readout<br />
problem, is considered. It is evaluated by varying by 20% the thresholds used for removing events with the<br />
jets directed at the dead region.<br />
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