Commissioning of the ATLAS Trigger Event Selection with Single‐Beam and Cosmic Rays

ATLAS is one of the two general‐purpose detectors at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The trigger system needs to efficiently reject a huge rate of background events and still select potentially interesting ones with good efficiency. After a first processing level using custom electronics, the trigger event selection is made by the High Level Trigger (HLT) system, implemented in software. To reduce the processing time to manageable levels, the HLT uses seeded, step‐wise and fast selection algorithms, aiming at the earliest possible rejection of background events. The ATLAS trigger event selection is based on the reconstruction of potentially interesting physical objects like electrons, muons, jets etc. The recent LHC startup and short single‐beam run provided the first test of the trigger system against real data. Following this period, ATLAS continued to collect cosmic‐ray events for detector alignment and calibration purposes. Both running periods provided very important data to commission the trigger reconstruction and selection algorithms. Several tracking, muon‐finding, and calorimetry algorithms, constituting the first ATLAS trigger menu, were exercised online. The trigger decision was used to stream the events into separate samples. This event streaming facilitated the commissioning of the different ATLAS sub‐detectors. This paper will give an overview of the trigger design and its innovative features. It wil l focus on the valuable experience gained in running the trigger reconstruction and event selection in the fast‐changing environment of the detector commissioning

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A novel method of preparing substituted pyridines has been developed. This method uses readily available [3-ketoesters and amidrazone as starting materials. The pyridines obtained do not require purification and different substitution patterns, not available by known methods, can be obtained. The formation of 1,2,3-tricarbonyl compounds was achieved by oxidation of the alcohol precursors, following two different methods. a-Chloro-ct-acetoxy-f3-dicarbonyls were prepared in excellent yields and were shown to react as tricarbonyl equivalents in the formation of 1,2,4-triazines. Regioselective condensation reactions were observed between different amidrazones with tricarbonyl and tricarbonyl equivalents to produce a series of novel 1,2,4-triazines in good yields with no contamination by any regioisomer. When 1,2,4-triazines were obtained from a-chloro-a-acetoxy-P-dicarbonyls, 2.5 equivalents of amidrazone were required. However, decomposition of a-chloro-a-acetoxy-P-dicarbonyls prior to reaction with 1 equivalent of amidrazone yielded the 1,2,4-triazines in good yields. These 1,2,4-triazines underwent aza Diels-Alder cycloaddition reactions with 2,5- norbornadiene to give a series of novel 2,3,6-trisubstituted pyridines. The pyridines bearing electron withdrawing groups as substituents could also be obtained in a 'one- pot' reaction from their corresponding tricarbonyls or tricarbonyl derivatives. The 1,2,4- triazines bearing electron donating groups could be converted to their corresponding pyridines either by changing the reaction conditions or, when possible, by conversion of the electron donating group into a more electron withdrawing substituent by oxidation (e.g. sulphoxide substituent). Pyridines bearing a sulphoxide substituent undergo nucleophilic substitutions, giving great scope to introduce different functionality in the C-6 of the pyridines.EThOS - Electronic Theses Online ServiceGBUnited Kingdo

Diseño y construcción de un reactor mecatrónico para el crecimiento de películas delgadas por la técnica de recubrimiento por inmersión

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Measurement of R(D) and R(D∗) with a semileptonic tagging method

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Measurement of R (D) and R (D∗) with a Semileptonic Tagging Method

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