• : Validation done, result is "Not Validated". Report the resons below
• : Validation done, result is "Ok, Validated"
• : Validation still in progress or results need to be followed up before final green/red light
• : Validation not (yet) done
• ^n.s. : Needed validation (relval) samples not available
• report : click on icon in table for link to the associated detailed report in the hlt forum
• fastsim references: corresponding fullsim results in the same release

5.1.0.prex details

5.0.0.pre2 details

5.0.0.pre3 details

• Electron FastSim: Fastsim vs. fullsim shows lower efficiency (-3%) due to the PixelMatch filters. Fastsim vs. fastsim 4.4.1 shows lower efficiency (-1%) for the PixelMatch filters as well.
• Photon FastSim: Fastsim vs. fullsim shows higher efficiency (+2%). These issues are found in 4.4.x versions as well.

5.0.0.pre4 details

• Electron FastSim: Fastsim vs. fullsim shows lower overall efficiency (-1%) caused by the PixelMatch filters which have about -3%.
• Photon FastSim: Fastsim vs. fullsim shows higher efficiency (+ 1-2%). The issue is the same as in the previous versions. See this HN thread for more information: https://hypernews.cern.ch/HyperNews/CMS/get/hlt/2618/1/1/1/1/1/1/1/1.html

4.4.0.pre1 details

Samples produced with MC conditions only; limited validation expected.

• Muon: efficiency dips at L1 in the central region (hn)
• Electron: hltEGRegionalL1EG5HTT75 Filter drops from 14.6% in 430pre7 to 5.2% for the Zee sample.
• Jets: fastisim: same bug as in 430pre6

4.4.0.pre2 details

• Electron: Efficiency for hltEGRegionalL1EG5HTT75 filter remains at much lower level than in 430pre7 for Zee sample.
• Jets: fastisim: same bug as in 430pre6

4.4.0.pre4 details

• Muon: same problem as in pre1; efficiency dips at L1 in the central region
• Electron: Efficiency for hltEGRegionalL1EG5HTT75 filter remains at much lower level than in 430pre7 for Zee sample. PixelMatch filters seem less efficient in the highest eta bins.
• Jets: fastisim: same bug as in 430pre6

4.4.0.pre5 details

• Electron: Efficiency HLT_Ele15_CaloIdT_CaloIsoVL_TrkIdT_TrkIsoVL_HT250* remains lower than in 430pre7 probably due to the hltEGRegionalL1EG5HTT75 filter. There has also been a change in the L1 seed in that paths which could explain a drop in the L1 efficiency. The PixelMatch filters seem less efficient in the highest eta bins. HLT_Ele17_CaloIdL_CaloIsoVL_Ele15_HF* show drop in efficiency probably caused by changed L1 seeds. Method to calculate efficiencies has changed which results in lower efficiencies for some double electron and double photon paths.
• Jets: fastisim: same bug as in 430pre6

4.4.0.pre6 details

DQM harvesting not run

4.4.0.pre7 details

• Electron/Photon: Lower efficiency of hltEGxxEtFilter especially for higher thresholds. Problems with the preshower sim->digi step leaves endcaps bad. This is solved in 4.4.0.pre8. Apart from that the same issues as in 4.4.0.pre5.
• Muon: Small decrease in L1 efficiency.
• Jets: fastisim: same bug as in 430pre6

4.4.0.pre8 details

• Electron: The same issues as in 4.4.0.pre5 are present.
• FastSim: Egamma/Jet: L1 issues; cause detected in L1/EcalTPG Emulator SimCalorimetry/EcalTrigPrimAlgos, change adopted since 430pre6; developers contacted, no answer in time for 440pre9 however;

V02-03-03 SimCalorimetry/EcalTrigPrimAlgos restores for fastsim the same behavior it had before the introduction of the spike killing additions. Should inspect results in 4_4_0 release.

4.4.0.pre9 details

• Electron: The same issues as in 4.4.0.pre8 are present. Status update, no resolution yet for L1, posted to L1 hn; re efficiency loss of the pixelMatch filters at high eta there is a tentative but yet yet verified explanation (change from START43 to START44) post,
• FastSim: same as 440pre8

4.4.0.pre10 details

• FastSim: same as before; code fix committed to cvs, but not picked in release yet post
• Electron: Issue with high eta efficiency loss in pixelMatch filters improved. Behaviour of RegionalFilter in Ele15*HT* paths still unchanged but declared unproblematic.

4.4.0 details

• FastSim: previous major issue fixed!
• FastSim: higher (2-3%) efficiency wrt fullsim, using h130gg. comment by A.Perrotta There are indeed some (a few %) differences, not only in the photon, but also in the electron triggers. I see that the L1 part seems to behave correctly. For the electron paths those filters are tracker seeded, and the several approximations we had initially put in the first fastsim implementation of those filters was indeed one of the main reason why I was asking since longtime to get a detailed validation of the HLT performance in fastsim. We are actually working with the fastsim specific customization of the seeding of the HLT tracking algorithm, and try to see whether some fix/tuning can be applied there. Re the photon paths, which do not contain tracking modules, same unmodified "fullsim" HLT modules are also used in fastsim, and thus harder to understand. FastSim experts are looking into it.

4.4.1 details

• Electron: DoubleEle45 path seems to have a slightly lower efficiency for positive eta than for negative eta.
• Electron FastSim: Generally 2-3% lower efficiency wrt fullsim with ZEE sample. This is mainly coming from PixelMatch filters but also OneOEMinusOneOP filters have a generaly lower efficiency. See also comments for 4.4.0 for more information.

4.4.2 details

• Electron: DoubleEle45 path still seems to have a slightly lower efficiency for positive eta as already reported for 4.4.1.
• Photon FastSim: Still generally 2-3% higher efficiency wrt fullsim. Only the path HLT_Photon20_CaloIdVT_IsoT_Ele8_CaloIdL_CaloIsoVL which contains a PixelMatch filter has 3% lower efficiency.

4.3.0.pre1 details

Samples produced with MC conditions only; limited validation expected.

• Electron: HLT_Ele10_CaloIdT_CaloIsoVL_TrkIdT_TrkIsoVL_HT200_v2 contains a filter with gets its input from an other path.
• Tau: Missing needed event content

4.3.0.pre2 details

• Electron: Same issues as in 4.3.0.pre1 but with version v3 of the path.
• Tau: Missing needed event content

4.3.0.pre3 details

• Electron: Same issues as in 4.3.0.pre2.

4.3.0.pre5 details

• Egamma: Most of the double electron and double photon paths could not be fully validated due to a dropped collection.

4.3.0.pre6 details

• Jets: New JEC (Jec11 v1). The turn-on is a little shifted to higher pT. cf: here
• Jets: fastsim: a bug has been introduced. The bug fix is in V02-03-03 SimCalorimetry/EcalTrigPrimAlgos, cf here

4.3.0.pre7 details

• Muon: Dips in efficiency at L1 in the central region.
• Jets: fastisim: same as 430pre6

4.3.0 details

• Muon: Same problem as in pre7; dips in efficiency at L1 in the central region.
• Susy: alphaT triggers:

check by B.Mathias: post: a dedicated test based on relvals from CMSSW_4_3_0 / 430_pre6 / 430_pre7 was performed, and the decrease in efficiencies could not be reproduced.

• Jets: fastisim: same as 430pre6

4.2.X general comments

• BPhysics: Except 4.2.0.pre1, for all other pre/releases in the series the plots were not filled properly due to a bug that was fixed but was incorporated only in 43x

4.2.0.pre1 details

• Muon: none
• Tau: The tau validation cannot be done currently because the relvals are neither made with the old menu or the new menu, they appear to be made with some early version of 5E32 which the code is not ready to handle.

4.2.0.pre4 details

• Jet: new trigger menu (jet energy corrections, new thresholds, etc)

4.2.0.pre5 details

• Electron: HLT_Ele10_CaloIdL_TrkIdVL_CaloIsoVL_TrkIsoVL_HT220_v1 and HLT_Ele10_CaloIdT_TrkIdT_CaloIsoVL_TrkIsoVL_HT220_v1 do not fire at all.

4.2.0.pre6 details

• Electron: HLT_Ele10_CaloIdT_CaloIsoVL_TrkIdT_TrkIsoVL_HT200_v2 contains a filter with gets its input from an other path.

4.2.0.pre8 details

• Electron: The same faulty path as in 4.2.0.pre6.

4.2.0 details

• Tau: Needed Event content is missing.
• Electron: The same faulty path as in 4.2.0.pre6.

4.2.1 details

• Electron: The same problems as in 4.2.0.
• Tau: Missing needed event content

4.2.2 details

• Electron: The same problems as in 4.2.1.
• Tau: Increase in lead track finding efficiency due to use of online beamspot location instead of 0,0,0

4.2.3 details

• Electron: The same problems as in 4.2.2.
• Jets: New JEC (Jec11 v1). The turn-on is a little shifted to higher pT. cf: here

4.2.4 details

• Electron: The same problems as in 4.2.3.

4.2.5 details

• Electron: The same problems as in 4.2.4.

4.2.6 details

• Electron: The same problems as in 4.2.5.

4.2.8 details

• Electron: The same problems as in 4.2.6. Compared to 4.2.6 there is a loss in efficiency in the highest eta bin of the PixelMatch filters. This is observed for the WE sample and also to a smaller extent in the ZEE sample.

4.1.5 details

• Jet: 41X is still using the uncorrected jet paths.

3.11.1.hltpatch1

• samples: standard relval, high stat relval
• 5e32 menu validation under 3_11

• Tau: Put as pass but known issue with beam spot location in pixel seeding creates low efficiency in lead track finding for all tau triggers if beams spot is displaced.

• SUSY/Exo: Separate validation reports from each group.

3.11.0.pre5 details

• Jets: 32 v 64 ok. Only fulssim has been validated. No change wrt pre2.

3.11.0.pre4 details

3.11.0.pre2 details

• Tau: Differences seen in L1 but seems to be related to change in GCT Emulator. (see post)

• Note sample generation failed for the following fastsim samples: ttbar, singlemupt(10,100), zee, h130gg.

• Jets: small differences with 3_10 results, related to change in GCT Emulator.

3.11.0.pre1 details

Sample generation failed

3.10.0pre3 details

Many of the harvesting jobs failed for this cycle, so the number of reports expected is limited.

3.10.0pre1 details

? Tau: There is an increase in the level 2.5 efficiency from 20% to 40% which is believed to be due to a change in the TauRegionalPixelSeedGenerator which is meant to recover the inefficiency due to a displaced beam spot.

397 details

? Jet: some little discrepancies in fullsim. Fastsim is OK.

391 details

? Tau: There is an increase in the level 2.5 efficiency from 20% to 40% which is believed to be due to a change in the TauRegionalPixelSeedGenerator which is meant to recover the inefficiency due to a displaced beam spot.

390pre7 details

? Tau: Validation could not be done by standard procedures due to changes in the code and harvesting failures.

390pre6 details

? Tau: Could only validate L1,L2,L2.5,L3 plots due to change in the trigger menu, update to the code has been submitted.
? Jets: Fastsim is OK, but the jet eta distribution has changed in fullsim. Probably because Pre6 is broken in EE.

390pre5 details

? Tau: Could only validate L1,L2 plots due to change in the trigger menu.

390pre4 details

? Tau: Could only validate L1,L2 plots due to change in the trigger menu.

390pre3 details

? Tau: Some increased efficiency in L2 double tau but final efficiency is within the error. Individual L2 efficiencies are stable.
? Susy: L1 EG: many bits have a lower efficiency in 390pre3 than in 384. L1 cross triggers: decreas in L1_Mu5_Jet6 (42% to 38%).

390pre2 details

? Jets: change from corrected paths to uncorrected paths in MC_38Y_VX MC.

390pre1 details

? Susy: 390pre1 w.r.t. 380: perfect agreement.