Allbrooke, B M M, Asquith, L, Cerri, A, Chavez Barajas, C A, De Santo, A, Salvatore, F, Santoyo Castillo, I, Suruliz, K, Sutton, M R, Vivarelli, I and The ATLAS collaboration, (2016) Identification of boosted, hadronically decaying W bosons and comparisons with ATLAS data taken at √s = 8 TeV. European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields, 76 (3). a154. ISSN 1434-6044
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Abstract
This paper reports a detailed study of techniques for identifying boosted, hadronically decaying W bosons using 20.3 fb −¹ of proton–proton collision data collected by the ATLAS detector at the LHC at a centre-of-mass energy √s = 8 TeV. A range of techniques for optimising the signal jet mass resolution are combined with various jet substructure variables. The results of these studies in Monte Carlo simulations show that a simple pairwise combination of groomed jet mass and one substructure variable can provide a 50 % efficiency for identifying W bosons with transverse momenta larger than 200 GeV while maintaining multijet background efficiencies of 2–4 % for jets with the same transverse momentum. These signal and background efficiencies are confirmed in data for a selection of tagging techniques.
Item Type: | Article |
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Schools and Departments: | School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences > Physics and Astronomy |
Research Centres and Groups: | Experimental Particle Physics Research Group |
Subjects: | Q Science > QC Physics > QC0770 Nuclear and particle physics. Atomic energy. Radioactivity > QC0793 Elementary particle physics |
Depositing User: | Lily Asquith |
Date Deposited: | 29 Sep 2016 12:51 |
Last Modified: | 11 Apr 2017 11:00 |
URI: | http://srodev.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/62995 |
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