Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2010-06-10
Phys.Rev.D82:054034,2010
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
24 pages, 10 figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.82.054034
We introduce a new class of infrared safe jet observables, which we refer to as template overlaps, designed to filter targeted highly boosted particle decays from QCD jets and other background. Template overlaps are functional measures that quantify how well the energy flow of a physical jet matches the flow of a boosted partonic decay. Any region of the partonic phase space for the boosted decays defines a template. We will refer to the maximum functional overlap found this way as the template overlap. To illustrate the method, we test lowest-order templates designed to distinguish highly-boosted top and Higgs decays from backgrounds produced by event generators. For the functional overlap, we find good results with a simple construction based on a Gaussian in energy differences within angular regions surrounding the template partons. Although different event generators give different averages for our template overlaps, we find in each case excellent rejection power, especially when combined with cuts based on jet shapes. The template overlaps are capable of systematic improvement by including higher order corrections in the template phase space.
Almeida Leandro G.
Lee Seung J.
Perez Gilad
Sterman George
Sung Ilmo
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