Published June 10, 2017 | Version v1
Journal article

Tagging partially reconstructed objects with jet substructure

  • 1. Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 02138 (United States)
  • 2. Raymond and Beverly Sackler School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv 69978 (Israel)
  • 3. Berkeley Center for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 (United States)
  • 4. Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 (United States)

Description

We present a new tagger which aims at identifying partially reconstructed objects, in which only some of the constituents are collected in a single jet. As an example, we focus on top decays in which either part of the hadronically decaying W or the b jet is soft or falls outside of the top jet cone. We construct an observable to identify remnant substructure from the decay and employ aggressive jet grooming to reject QCD backgrounds. The tagger is complementary to existing ones and works well in the intermediate boost regime where jet substructure techniques usually fail. It is anticipated that a similar tagger can be used to identify non-QCD hadronic jets, such as those expected from hidden valleys.

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2016.08.044

Additional details

Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.physletb.2016.08.044;
arXiv
arXiv:1412.7540v1;
PII
S0370-2693(16)30464-6;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physics Letters. Section B
Journal Volume
769
Journal Page Range
p. 333-338
ISSN
0370-2693
CODEN
PYLBAJ

INIS

Country of Publication
Netherlands
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
48086128
Subject category
S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
Descriptors DEI
HADRONS; JETS; PARTICLE DECAY; QUANTUM CHROMODYNAMICS
Descriptors DEC
DECAY; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; FIELD THEORIES; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY

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Copyright
Copyright (c) 2016 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.