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Comparison between simulated and observed LHC beam backgrounds in the ATLAS experiment at Ebeam=4 TeV
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74 II. Physikalisches Institut, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
75 Département de Physique Nucléaire et Corpusculaire, Université de Genève, Genève, Switzerland
76 Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Genova, Genova, Italy
77 INFN Sezione di Genova, Italy
78 II. Physikalisches Institut, Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen, Giessen, Germany
79 SUPA - School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom
80 LPSC, Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS/IN2P3, Grenoble INP, Grenoble, France
81 Laboratory for Particle Physics and Cosmology, Harvard University, Cambridge MA, United States of America
82 Department of Modern Physics and State Key Laboratory of Particle Detection and Electronics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
83 Institute of Frontier and Interdisciplinary Science and Key Laboratory of Particle Physics and Particle Irradiation (MOE), Shandong University, Qingdao, China
84 School of Physics and Astronomy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, KLPPAC-MoE, SKLPPC, Shanghai, China
85 Tsung-Dao Lee Institute, Shanghai, China
86 Kirchhoff-Institut für Physik, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
173 Center for High Energy Physics, University of Oregon, Eugene OR, United States of America
174 LAL, Université Paris-Sud, CNRS/IN2P3, Université Paris-Saclay, Orsay, France
175 Graduate School of Science, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan
176 Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
177 Department of Physics, Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom
178 LPNHE, Sorbonne Université, Paris Diderot Sorbonne Paris Cité, CNRS/IN2P3, Paris, France
179 Department of Physics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA, United States of America
180 Konstantinov Nuclear Physics Institute of National Research Centre "Kurchatov Institute", PNPI, St. Petersburg, Russia
181 Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh PA, United States of America
182 Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas - LIP, Portugal
183 Departamento de Física, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal
184 Departamento de Física, Universidade de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
185 Centro de Física Nuclear da Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal
186 Departamento de Física, Universidade do Minho, Braga, Portugal
187 Departamento de Física Teorica y del Cosmos, Universidad de Granada, Granada (Spain), Spain
188 Dep Física and CEFITEC of Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Caparica, Portugal
189 Institute of Physics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic
190 Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
191 Charles University, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Prague, Czech Republic
192 State Research Center Institute for High Energy Physics, NRC KI, Protvino, Russia
193 Particle Physics Department, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot, United Kingdom
194 IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
195 Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz CA, United States of America
196 Departamento de Física, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
197 Departamento de Física, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Valparaíso, Chile
198 Department of Physics, University of Washington, Seattle WA, United States of America
199 Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom
200 Department of Physics, Shinshu University, Nagano, Japan
201 Department Physik, Universität Siegen, Siegen, Germany
202 Department of Physics, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby BC, Canada
203 SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford CA, United States of America
204 Physics Department, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
205 Departments of Physics and Astronomy, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook NY, United States of America
206 Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom
207 School of Physics, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
208 Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
209 Academia Sinica Grid Computing, Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
210 E. Andronikashvili Institute of Physics, Iv. Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Tbilisi, Georgia
211 High Energy Physics Institute, Tbilisi State University, Tbilisi, Georgia
212 Department of Physics, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
213 Raymond and Beverly Sackler School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
214 Department of Physics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
215 International Center for Elementary Particle Physics and Department of Physics, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
216 Graduate School of Science and Technology, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Tokyo, Japan
217 Department of Physics, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan
218 Tomsk State University, Tomsk, Russia
219 Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto ON, Canada
220 TRIUMF, Vancouver BC, Canada
221 Department of Physics and Astronomy, York University, Toronto ON, Canada
222 Division of Physics and Tomonaga Center for the History of the Universe, Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
223 Department of Physics and Astronomy, Tufts University, Medford MA, United States of America
224 Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California Irvine, Irvine CA, United States of America
225 Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden
226 Department of Physics, University of Illinois, Urbana IL, United States of America
227 Instituto de Física Corpuscular (IFIC), Centro Mixto Universidad de Valencia - CSIC, Valencia, Spain
228 Department of Physics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver BC, Canada
229 Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria, Victoria BC, Canada
230 Fakultät für Physik und Astronomie, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
231 Department of Physics, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom
232 Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan
233 Department of Particle Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
234 Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin, Madison WI, United States of America
235 Fakultät für Mathematik und Naturwissenschaften, Fachgruppe Physik, Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Wuppertal, Germany
236 Department of Physics, Yale University, New Haven CT, United States of America
Results of dedicated Monte Carlo simulations of beam-induced background (BIB) in the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) are presented and compared with data recorded in 2012. During normal physics operation this background arises mainly from scattering of the 4 TeV protons on residual gas in the beam pipe. Methods of reconstructing the BIB signals in the ATLAS detector, developed and implemented in the simulation chain based on the \textsc{Fluka} Monte Carlo simulation package, are described. The interaction rates are determined from the residual gas pressure distribution in the LHC ring in order to set an absolute scale on the predicted rates of BIB so that they can be compared quantitatively with data. Through these comparisons the origins of the BIB leading to different observables in the ATLAS detectors are analysed. The level of agreement between simulation results and BIB measurements by ATLAS in 2012 demonstrates that a good understanding of the origin of BIB has been reached.