N-subjettiness

N-subjettiness N-subjettiness

FastJet Plugin

  • We're pleased to announce that the latest version is available from the FastJet Contrib project. Further development will continue from there.

Older Versions for Debugging Purposes

Publications

  • Maximizing Boosted Top Identification by Minimizing N-subjettiness.
    Jesse Thaler and Ken Van Tilburg.
    arXiv:1108.2701.

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Jet Trimming

Jet Trimming Jet Trimming

FastJet Plugin

  • We're pleased to announce that Trimming is now included in the default FastJet 3 package.

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Publications

  • Abstract: Initial state radiation, multiple interactions, and event pileup can contaminate jets and degrade event reconstruction. Here we introduce a procedure, jet trimming, designed to mitigate these sources of contamination in jets initiated by light partons. This procedure is complimentary to existing methods developed for boosted heavy particles. We find that jet trimming can achieve significant improvements in event reconstruction, especially at high energy/luminosity hadron colliders like the LHC.

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Jets with Variable R

 Jets with Variable R

FastJet Plugin

  • We're pleased to announce that the latest version is available from the FastJet Contrib project. Further development will continue from there.

Older Versions for Debugging Purposes

Publications

  • Abstract: We introduce a new class of jet algorithms designed to return conical jets with a variable Delta R radius. A specific example, in which Delta R scales as 1/pT, proves particularly useful in capturing the kinematic features of a wide variety of hard scattering processes. We implement this Delta R scaling in a sequential recombination algorithm and test it by reconstructing resonance masses and kinematic endpoints. These test cases show 10-20% improvements in signal efficiency compared to fixed Delta R algorithms. We also comment on cuts useful in reducing continuum jet backgrounds.

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jets.txt · Last modified: 2013/04/05 20:50 by jthaler