Substructure of high-pTp_T Jets at the LHC

Jul, 2008
5 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.D 79 (2009) 074017
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Report number:
  • YITP-SB-08-31

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Abstract: (arXiv)
We study high-pt jets from QCD and from highly-boosted massive particles such as tops, W, Z and Higgs, and argue that infrared-safe observables can help reduce QCD backgrounds. Jets from QCD are characterized by different patterns of energy flow compared to the products of highly-boosted heavy particle decays, and we employ a variety of jet shapes, observables restricted to energy flow within a jet, to explore this difference. Results from Monte Carlo generators and arguments based on perturbation theory support the discriminating power of the shapes we refer to as planar flow and angularities. We emphasize that for massive jets, these and other observables can be analyzed perturbatively.
Note:
  • 5 pages and 4 figures
  • p p: inclusive reaction
  • jet: hadroproduction
  • transverse momentum: high
  • event shape analysis
  • jet: mass
  • energy flow: planar
  • top: hadronic decay
  • gauge boson: hadronic decay
  • quantum chromodynamics: background
  • angular distribution