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The ATLAS Transition Radiation Tracker (TRT) contains more than 350000 large straw tubes and it is the outermost of the three subsystems of the ATLAS Inner Detector (ID). The TRT contributes substantially to the ATLAS ID resolution for the tracks of high-energy particles, providing excellent particle identification capabilities and electron-pion separation. Basic performance parameters of the TRT related to its tracking function are described in this paper. The data used in this study were collected during the first period of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) operation in 2012 with a proton collision energy of 8 TeV. The tracking performance of the TRT has been studied in the case of operating with a Xe-based gas mixture and as a function of the straw occupancy. Special attention was paid to investigation of tracking parameters inside hadronic jets. The experimental data and simulation are in reasonable agreement, even within the dense cores of the most energetic jets.
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Belyaev, N., Krasnopevtsev, D. & Smirnov, N. Study of performance of the ATLAS transition radiation tracker in run 1 of the LHC: Tracking characteristics. Phys. Part. Nuclei 49, 14–16 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063779618010057
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063779618010057