--- UserCode/Friis/TancNote/note/introduction.tex 2010/04/15 23:22:39 1.3 +++ UserCode/Friis/TancNote/note/introduction.tex 2010/04/24 00:27:16 1.6 @@ -1,15 +1,15 @@ High tau identification performance is important for the discovery potential of -many possible new physics signals at the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS). Events -with tau leptons are typically signal events; the Standard Model background -rates with true tau leptons are typically the same order of magnitude as the -expected signal rate in many searches. The challenge of doing physics with -taus is dominated by the rate at which objects are incorrectly tagged as taus. -In paticular, quark and gluon jets have a significantly higher production -cross-section and events where these objects are incorrectly identified as tau -leptons can dominate the backgrounds of searches for new physics using taus. -Efficient identification of hadronic tau decays and and low misidentification -rate for quarks and gluons is thus essential to maximize the significance of -searches for new physics at CMS. +many possible new physics signals at the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS). The +Standard Model background rates from true tau leptons are typically the same +order of magnitude as the expected signal rate in many searches for new +physics. The challenge of doing physics with taus is driven by the rate at +which objects are incorrectly tagged as taus. In paticular, quark and gluon +jets have a significantly higher production cross-section and events where +these objects are incorrectly identified as tau leptons can dominate the +backgrounds of searches for new physics using taus. Efficient identification +of hadronic tau decays and and low misidentification rate for quarks and gluons +is thus essential to maximize the significance of searches for new physics at +CMS. New physics signals may be discovered through tau lepton hadronic decay channels in early CMS data. The tau lepton plays a paticularly important role in @@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ decays to electrons and muons are diffic muons produced in $pp$ collisions. Analyses that use exclusively non-hadronically decaying taus typically require that the leptonic ($e,\mu$) decays be of opposite flavor. The discrimination of hadronic tau decays from -electrons and muons is described in~\ref{PFT08001}. With the Tau Neural +electrons and muons is described in~\cite{PFT08001}. With the Tau Neural Classifier, we aim to improve the identification of true hadronic tau decays associated with a collimated jet containing either one or three tracks reconstructed in the pixel and silicon strip tracker, plus a low number of