Resolving boosted jets with XCone
We show how the recently proposed XCone jet algorithm [1] smoothly interpolates between resolved and boosted kinematics. When using standard jet algorithms to reconstruct the decays of hadronic resonances like top quarks and Higgs bosons, one typically needs separate analysis strategies to handle th...
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| author | Thaler, Jesse Wilkason, Thomas F. |
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| description | We show how the recently proposed XCone jet algorithm [1] smoothly interpolates between resolved and boosted kinematics. When using standard jet algorithms to reconstruct the decays of hadronic resonances like top quarks and Higgs bosons, one typically needs separate analysis strategies to handle the resolved regime of well-separated jets and the boosted regime of fat jets with substructure. XCone, by contrast, is an exclusive cone jet algorithm that always returns a fixed number of jets, so jet regions remain resolved even when (sub)jets are overlapping in the boosted regime. In this paper, we perform three LHC case studies--dijet resonances, Higgs decays to bottom quarks, and all-hadronic top pairs--that demonstrate the physics applications of XCone over a wide kinematic range. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1032832022-09-29T11:18:15Z Resolving boosted jets with XCone Thaler, Jesse Wilkason, Thomas F. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Center for Theoretical Physics Thaler, Jesse Wilkason, Thomas F. We show how the recently proposed XCone jet algorithm [1] smoothly interpolates between resolved and boosted kinematics. When using standard jet algorithms to reconstruct the decays of hadronic resonances like top quarks and Higgs bosons, one typically needs separate analysis strategies to handle the resolved regime of well-separated jets and the boosted regime of fat jets with substructure. XCone, by contrast, is an exclusive cone jet algorithm that always returns a fixed number of jets, so jet regions remain resolved even when (sub)jets are overlapping in the boosted regime. In this paper, we perform three LHC case studies--dijet resonances, Higgs decays to bottom quarks, and all-hadronic top pairs--that demonstrate the physics applications of XCone over a wide kinematic range. 2016-06-22T20:46:19Z 2016-06-22T20:46:19Z 2015-12 2015-11 2016-05-23T09:37:34Z Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 1029-8479 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/103283 Thaler, Jesse, and Thomas F. Wilkason. "Resolving boosted jets with XCone." Journal of High Energy Physics (12):51 (2015 Dec 09), pp.1-33. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2406-8160 en http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/JHEP12(2015)051 Journal of High Energy Physics Creative Commons Attribution http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ The Author(s) application/pdf Springer Berlin Heidelberg/International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA) Springer Berlin Heidelberg |
| spellingShingle | Thaler, Jesse Wilkason, Thomas F. Resolving boosted jets with XCone |
| title | Resolving boosted jets with XCone |
| title_full | Resolving boosted jets with XCone |
| title_fullStr | Resolving boosted jets with XCone |
| title_full_unstemmed | Resolving boosted jets with XCone |
| title_short | Resolving boosted jets with XCone |
| title_sort | resolving boosted jets with xcone |
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