Abstract
Electron and photon triggers covering transverse energies from 5 GeV
GeV
to several TeV
TeV
are essential for the ATLAS experiment to record signals for a wide variety of physics: from Standard Model processes to searches for new phenomena in both proton–proton and heavy-ion collisions. To cope with a fourfold increase of peak LHC luminosity from 2015 to 2018 (Run 2), to 2.1×1034cm−2 s−1
2.1
×
10
34
cm
−
2
s
−
1
, and a similar increase in the number of interactions per beam-crossing to about 60, trigger algorithms and selections were optimised to control the rates while retaining a high efficiency for physics analyses. For proton–proton collisions, the single-electron trigger efficiency relative to a single-electron offline selection is at least 75% for an offline electron of 31 GeV
GeV
, and rises to 96% at 60 GeV
GeV
; the trigger efficiency of a 25 GeV
GeV
leg of the primary diphoton trigger relative to a tight offline photon selection is more than 96% for an offline photon of 30 GeV
GeV
. For heavy-ion collisions, the primary electron and photon trigger efficiencies relative to the corresponding standard offline selections are at least 84% and 95%, respectively, at 5 GeV
GeV
above the corresponding trigger threshold
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