Determining the jet energy scale for ATLAS in the Z+Jet channel

This thesis presents a determination of the jet energy scale for the ATLAS detector using in-situ measurements. This calibration is critical, as jets are found in many analyses, and the energy measurement of jets contributes significantly to the uncertainty in numerous ATLAS results. The energy of the jet is initially taken to be the detector measurement, but this is lower than the true energy because the detector is calibrated for electromagnetic particles, not jets. One can find a correction to this energy by balancing the jet's transverse momentum against a well-measured reference object. Directly calibrating the calorimeter-level jet to the particle-level is called Direct Balance; here, a different method called the Missing ET Projection Fraction (MPF) method is used instead, which balances the pt of the recoiling system against the reference object. The MPF's pile-up resistant nature makes it more suitable to use in the ATLAS environment. Results for the MPF method in the Z+Jet channel are presented. A relative calibration of data to Monte Carlo simulation is provided, including a complete systematic uncertainty analysis. The uncertainty on the in-situ calibration is reduced to around 1% for most transverse momenta.