A dedicated reconstruction algorithm to find decay vertices in the ATLAS muon spectrometer is presented. The algorithm searches the region just upstream of or inside the muon spectrometer volume for multi-particle vertices that originate from the decay of particles with long decay paths. The performance of the algorithm is evaluated using both a sample of simulated Higgs boson events, in which the Higgs boson decays to long-lived neutral particles that in turn decay to b final states, and pp collision data at √s = 7 TeV collected with the ATLAS detector at the LHC during 2011.
Tanasijczuk, A. J., ATLAS, & et al. (2014). Standalone vertex finding in the ATLAS muon spectrometer. Journal of Instrumentation, 9. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/9/02/P02001 (Original work published 2014)