Performance versus resilience in modern quark-gluon tagging

Discriminating quark-like from gluon-like jets is, in many ways, a key challenge for many LHC analyses. First, we use a known difference in PYTHIA and HERWIG simulations to show how decorrelated taggers would break down when the most distinctive feature is aligned with theory uncertainties. We propo...

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Main Author: Anja Butter, Barry M. Dillon, Tilman Plehn, Lorenz Vogel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SciPost 2023-12-01
Series:SciPost Physics Core
Online Access:https://scipost.org/SciPostPhysCore.6.4.085