Gaining (mutual) information about quark/gluon discrimination

Discriminating quark jets from gluon jets is an important but challenging problem in jet substructure. In this paper, we use the concept of mutual information to illuminate the physics of quark/gluon tagging. Ideal quark/gluon separation requires only one bit of truth information, so even if two dis...

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Main Authors: Thaler, Jesse, Waalewijn, Wouter J., Larkoski, Andrew
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Center for Theoretical Physics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Springer-Verlag 2015
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/94599
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3181-4301
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2406-8160