Experiences from the RPC data taking during the CMS RUN-2

TL;DR

This paper summarizes the performance and operational experiences of the CMS RPC system during the RUN-2 data taking period, highlighting its role in muon detection amidst increasing luminosities.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive overview of the CMS RPC system's performance, calibration, and operational strategies during RUN-2, including software tools developed for stable data collection.

Findings

RPC system provided robust muon detection and triggering.

Stable data taking achieved at high luminosities.

Operational and calibration procedures ensured detector performance.

Abstract

The CMS experiment recorded 177.75 /fb of proton-proton collision data during the RUN-1 and RUN-2 data taking period. Successful data taking at increasing instantaneous luminosities with the evolving detector configuration was a big achievement of the collaboration. The CMS RPC system provided redundant information for the robust muon triggering, reconstruction, and identification. To ensure stable data taking, the CMS RPC collaboration has performed detector operation, calibration, and performance studies. Various software and related tools are developed and maintained accordingly. In this paper, the overall performance of the CMS RPC system and experiences of the data taking during the RUN-2 period are summarised.