Electron and photon reconstruction and identification with the CMS experiment at the CERN LHC

(CMS Collaboration) Sirunyan, A.M.; Tumasyan, A.; ..., ...; Giljanović, Duje; Godinović, Nikola; Lelas, Damir; Puljak, Ivica; Antunović, Željko; Kovač, Marko; Šćulac, Toni; Brigljević, Vuko; Ferenček, Dinko; Majumder, Devdatta; Roguljić, Matej; Starodumov, Andrey; Šuša, Tatjana; ..., ...; Vetens, W. (2021) Electron and photon reconstruction and identification with the CMS experiment at the CERN LHC. Journal of Instrumentation, 16 (05). ISSN 1748-0221

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Abstract

The performance is presented of the reconstruction and identification algorithms for electrons and photons with the CMS experiment at the LHC. The reported results are based on proton-proton collision data collected at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV and recorded in 2016-2018, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 136 fb. Results obtained from lead-lead collision data collected at 5.02 TeV are also presented. Innovative techniques are used to reconstruct the electron and photon signals in the detector and to optimize the energy resolution. Events with electrons and photons in the final state are used to measure the energy resolution and energy scale uncertainty in the recorded events. The measured energy resolution for electrons produced in Z boson decays in proton-proton collision data ranges from 2 to 5%, depending on electron pseudorapidity and energy loss through bremsstrahlung in the detector material. The energy scale in the same range of energies is measured with an uncertainty smaller than 0.1 (0.3)% in the barrel (endcap) region in proton-proton collisions and better than 1 (3)% in the barrel (endcap) region in heavy ion collisions. The timing resolution for electrons from Z boson decays with the full 2016-2018 proton-proton collision data set is measured to be 200 ps.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	large detector systems for particle and astroparticle physics; particle identification methods
Subjects:	NATURAL SCIENCES NATURAL SCIENCES > Physics NATURAL SCIENCES > Physics > Physics of Elementary Particles and Fields
Divisions:	Division of Experimental Physics
Depositing User:	Virna Brumnić
Date Deposited:	26 Mar 2026 07:52
URI:	http://fulir.irb.hr/id/eprint/11483
DOI:	10.1088/1748-0221/16/05/P05014

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