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Public Results

All CMS Public Results can be found on these pages, or via this search page.

All CMS performance notes can be found on CDS here.

A previous collection of public results related to Particle Flow and the TauPOG can be found on this TWiki page

Publications

Below is a selection of TauPOG papers and physics analysis summary notes (PASs).

Performance notes for offline reconstruction & identification

Phase 2 (High Luminosity LHC)

  • CMS-DP-2022-004, CDS [PDF], iCMS [Internal]:
    "High Granularity Calorimeter Reconstruction Results using a Graph Neural Network"
  • CMS-DP-2017-060, CDS [PDF], iCMS [Internal]:
    "Object performance as a function of pileup density for CMS PhaseII"
  • CMS-DP-2016-065, CDS [PDF], iCMS [Internal]:
    "Updates on Performance of Physics Objects with the Upgraded CMS detector for High Luminosity LHC."

Run 3

  • CMS-DP-2025-081, CDS [PDF], iCMS [Internal], plots:
    "Flavour tagging performance of the updated Unified Particle Transformer algorithm with the CMS experiment at \(\sqrt{s}\)=13.6 TeV"
  • CMS-DP-2025-074, CDS [PDF], iCMS [Internal], plots:
    "Validation of tau identification algorithms in Run 3 data and simulation"
  • CMS-DP-2025-073, CDS [PDF], iCMS [Internal], plots:
    "Comparison of the performance of tau reconstruction and identification algorithms in Run 3"
  • CMS-DP-2024-066, CDS [PDF], iCMS [Internal]:
    "A unified approach for jet tagging in Run 3 at \(\sqrt{s}\)=13.6 TeV in CMS"
  • CMS-DP-2024-063, CDS [PDF], iCMS [Internal]:
    "Performance of the CNN-based tau identification algorithm with Domain Adaptation using Adversarial Machine Learning for Run 3"
  • CMS-DP-2024-043, CDS [PDF], iCMS [Internal], plots:
    "Optimizing the pileup per particle identification algorithm in the context of \(\tau_h\) lepton identification in Run3"
  • CMS-DP-2023-036, CDS [PDF], iCMS [Internal], plots:
    "End-to-end Deep Learning Inference in CMS software framework"

Run 2

  • CMS-DP-2025-047, CDS [PDF], iCMS [Internal], plots:
    "Performance of boosted tau lepton identification with DeepTau Framework (Boosted DeepTau)"
  • CMS-DP-2024-053, CDS [PDF], iCMS [Internal]:
    "Tau lepton identification in displaced topologies using machine learning at CMS"
  • CMS-DP-2020-041, CDS [PDF], iCMS [Internal]:
    "Identification of hadronic tau decay channels using multivariate analysis (MVA decay mode)"
  • CMS-DP-2020-039, CDS [PDF], iCMS [Internal]:
    "Performance of the low-pT tau identification algorithm"
  • CMS-DP-2019-033, CDS [PDF], iCMS [Internal]:
    "Performance of the DeepTau algorithm for the discrimination of taus against jets, electron, and muons"
  • CMS-DP-2018-054, CDS [PDF], iCMS [Internal]:
    "Tau reconstruction with calorimeter jets at \(\sqrt{s} = 13\) TeV"
  • CMS-DP-2018-026, CDS [PDF], iCMS [Internal]:
    "Tau Identification Performance in 2017 Data at \(\sqrt{s}=13\) TeV"
  • CMS-DP-2017-036, CDS [PDF], iCMS [Internal]:
    "Jet\(\to\)Tau Misidentification Probability with 2016 pp collision data at \(\sqrt{s}\)=13 TeV"
  • CMS-DP-2017-006, CDS [PDF], iCMS [Internal]:
    "Performance of tau identification with 2016 data at \(\sqrt{s}\) = 13 TeV"
  • CMS-DP-2017-002, CDS [PDF], iCMS [Internal]:
    "Tau-Id performance with full 2016 dataset using \(Z\to\tau_{\mu}\tau_{h}\) events"
  • CMS-DP-2016-066, CDS [PDF], iCMS [Internal]:
    "Expected tau identification performance in LHC run-2 at \(\sqrt{s}\) = 13 TeV"
  • CMS-DP-2016-060, CDS [PDF], iCMS [Internal]:
    "Tau-Id performance to separate tau leptons with helicity +1 and -1 using \(\tau\to a_{1}\nu\to 3\pi^{\pm}\nu\) and \(\tau\to\rho\nu\to\pi^{\pm}\pi^0\nu\) decays"
  • CMS-DP-2016-040, CDS [PDF], iCMS [Internal]:
    "Tau energy scale and \(\mu \rightarrow \tau\) misidentification rate estimated with early 2016 data using Z events."
  • CMS-DP-2016-038, CDS [PDF], iCMS [Internal]:
    "Tau identification in boosted topologies"
  • CMS-DP-2016-019, CDS [PDF], iCMS [Internal]:
    "Tau identification for Run-2 and its performance with 2015 data"
  • CMS-DP-2016-015, CDS [PDF], iCMS [Internal]:
    "Tau-Id performance with early 2016 data using \(\mathrm{Z\to\tau_{\mu}\tau_{h}}\) events"

Run 1

Performance notes for Level-1 or High-Level triggers

Below are performance notes on Level-1 (L1) or High-Level triggers (HLT) for hadronic tau lepton decay (\(\tau_\mathrm{h}\)) in CMS. More results can be found in the following pages: Run-1 and preliminary Run-2 L1Ts, Run-2 and Phase-2 L1Ts, Run-2 HLTs, and Run-3 HLTs.

Phase 2 (High Luminosity LHC)

  • CMS-DP-2025-058, CDS [PDF], iCMS [Internal], plots:
    "Extending the Features of the CMS Phase-2 Level-1 Trigger Scouting"
  • CMS-DP-2025-032, CDS [PDF], iCMS [Internal], plots:
    "Multiclass object tagging in the CMS Phase-2 Level-1 Correlator Trigger"
  • CMS-DP-2024-097, CDS [PDF], iCMS [Internal], plots:
    "Optimizing cut-based algorithms to specific physics acceptance regions at the CMS Level-1 Trigger"
  • CMS-DP-2024-057, CDS [PDF], iCMS [Internal], plots:
    "Standalone barrel e/\(\gamma\) and calorimeter based jet and tau reconstruction in the Level-1 Phase-2 Calorimeter Trigger"
  • CMS-DP-2024-056, CDS [PDF], iCMS [Internal], plots:
    "Analysis of muons and calorimeter objects collected by the Level-1 Trigger Data Scouting demonstrator during LHC Run 3"
  • CMS-DP-2024-018, CDS [PDF], iCMS [Internal], plots:
    "NNPuppiTaus: PUPPI tau reconstruction in the Level-1 trigger with real-time machine learning"
  • CMS-DP-2023-062, CDS [PDF], iCMS [Internal], plots:
    "Hadronic Tau Reconstruction in the CMS Phase-2 Level-1 Trigger using NNs with Calorimetric Information"
  • CMS-DP-2021-013, CDS [PDF], iCMS [Internal], plots:
    "Performance of Phase-2 HLT Reconstruction and GPU offloading benchmarks"

Run 3

  • CMS-DP-2026-008, CDS [PDF], iCMS [Internal], plots:
    "Performance of Hadronic Tau Reconstruction at the High Level Trigger using 2024 Data from the CMS Experiment at CERN"
  • CMS-DP-2024-122, CDS [PDF], iCMS [Internal], plots:
    "Level-1 Trigger Performance in 2024 Proton-Proton Collisions at \(\sqrt{s} = 13.6\) TeV"
  • CMS-DP-2024-042, CDS [PDF], iCMS [Internal], plots:
    "Performance of Tau Lepton Reconstruction at the High Level Trigger using 2023 Data from the CMS Experiment at CERN"
  • CMS-DP-2023-055, CDS [PDF], iCMS [Internal], plots:
    "Performance of Level-1 Trigger e/gamma and tau in Run 3"
  • CMS-DP-2023-050, CDS [PDF], iCMS [Internal], plots:
    "Novel strategy targeting HH and HHH production at High Level Trigger in Run 3"
  • CMS-DP-2023-024, CDS [PDF], iCMS [Internal], plots:
    "Performance of tau lepton reconstruction at High Level Trigger using 2022 data from the CMS experiment at CERN"
  • CMS-DP-2023-008, CDS [PDF], iCMS [Internal], plots:
    "Performance of Level-1 trigger e/gamma and tau in Run 3"

Run 2